Rosendo Santillan, a 35-year-old Latino man, was fatally shot on February 4, 2004, in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, in front of 3537 Garnet Street. The Los Angeles County coroner’s records list the death as a gunshot fatality, and the LAPD immediately treated the incident as a homicide.

Initial investigations did not produce arrests or identified suspects, and the case has remained unsolved. The neighborhood’s history of gang violence and crime, combined with a reported lack of witnesses willing to come forward, has been cited as complicating the inquiry. Periodic reviews and appeals for information have been made but no major breakthrough is reported.

Anyone with information about what happened to Rosendo Santillan is asked to contact the LAPD.