Tony Rodrick Welch was 24 and from Compton when he was fatally shot after an attack on October 16, 2016. He was sitting in a car with two friends on the 600 block of West Cherry Street around 10 p.m. when two men approached and tried to open the doors. After failing to open them, one of the men on the driver’s side fired through the windshield. Welch, in the driver’s seat, was struck in the head and later pronounced dead at 3:37 p.m. the following day. A friend in the passenger seat was shot in the lower torso; a third occupant in the back seat was uninjured.

The suspects were described only as black men and were last seen fleeing westbound on Cherry Street. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau opened an investigation and asked the public for information, offering anonymity through Crime Stoppers. No arrests were reported immediately after the shooting.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or the identities of the men seen fleeing, please come forward.