Lavell Lee Smith, 33, of Los Angeles was shot and killed in the early morning hours of June 29, 2014. He had attended a party at a restaurant banquet hall in East Hollywood and was found with multiple gunshot wounds after police responded to a shooting call at about 5:20 a.m.; he was pronounced dead at 5:52 a.m., according to coroner records.

LAPD investigators say Smith was shot after leaving the party. Police released a description of a suspect: a black man, about 20 to 25 years old, black hair, goatee and black braids. No arrests or publicly reported identifications of a suspect have been made and the case remains unsolved.

Anyone who was at the banquet hall that night or who saw someone matching that description in East Hollywood around 5 a.m. on June 29, 2014 is asked to contact Northeast Division Homicide detectives or Crime Stoppers with information.