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Deontae Deshon Ruffin, 24, was shot and killed on February 29, 2016, while sitting in the back seat of a car in the 1500 block of West 57th Street in the Harvard Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Coroner’s records say a light-colored sedan pulled up, a person exited the front passenger side and fired into the back seat, then re-entered the sedan which fled north on South Denker Avenue. Ruffin was pronounced dead at a hospital at 2:26 p.m.

LAPD detectives described the killing as a case of mistaken identity and said the suspects were believed to be gang members, while Ruffin was not. The Criminal Gang Homicide Division handled the investigation, and Crime Stoppers anonymity was offered for tips. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced; the case remains unresolved.

Did anyone in the Harvard Park area that afternoon see the light-colored sedan or have information that could help identify the shooters?