Gabriel Soto was 21 when he was shot and killed on May 25, 2013, in East Los Angeles. He was at a party in a garage on South McDonnell Avenue around 3 a.m. when a man approached and opened fire; Soto was one of two people struck. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 4:18 a.m. The other victim suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and survived.

Soto had been a Garfield High School football player and was on a football scholarship at Lincoln University in Missouri, where he was studying electrical engineering. He had returned home for a visit when the shooting occurred. Investigators said the suspects were believed to have gang affiliations, and they did not think Soto or his friends were involved in gangs; the motive was not immediately clear and Soto was not believed to be the intended target.

If anyone attended that gathering or has information about who approached the garage that morning, please share what was seen or heard.