Ruben Fematt, a 48-year-old Latino, was fatally shot in Wilmington, Los Angeles, in the early morning hours of June 18, 2011. The coroner’s records say an unknown assailant approached him in the alley behind his home on North Sanford Avenue at about 1:50 a.m. and opened fire, striking him multiple times in the chest. Fematt was taken to St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach and pronounced dead at 2:30 a.m.

The motive for the killing is unknown and no arrests have been made; detectives Isidro Rodriguez and Tony Batres were assigned to the investigation. Family and friends remembered Fematt as a kind, helpful member of the community, and his death deepened local concern about gun violence in the Wilmington area, where a high number of homicide victims have been shot since January 2007.

Anyone with information that could help identify the shooter is asked to contact the LAPD. Did anyone in Wilmington know Ruben or see anything that night?