Williams Patrick Simms, 43, was shot and killed on October 24, 2015, in the Florence neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was attending a party in front of a home in the 600 block of East 83rd Street around 10 p.m. when two Latino men approached him; one reportedly asked Where you from? before at least one of them opened fire. Simms was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:14 p.m., and the assailants fled east toward Stanford Avenue.

LAPD investigators described the shooting as appearing gang-related rather than racially motivated and said the suspects were believed to be gang members. No arrests were announced at the time and the case remained unsolved. Police noted a possible lead: the morning after the killing a man with gunshot wounds to the upper torso was reportedly dropped off at a California hospital by an unknown black car, but authorities did not publicly confirm a connection to Simms’ death.

If anyone has information about the shooting or remembers activity in the 600 block of East 83rd Street that night, please contact the Criminal Gang Homicide Division or Crime Stoppers.