Adrian Prado, a 17-year-old Latino male born March 17, 2007, was found dead on a Los Angeles County sidewalk on January 5, 2025. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the head, and the Coroner’s Office assigned case number 2025-00267; the formal pronouncement of death was at 3:12 p.m. that Sunday afternoon. Authorities recorded this as the county’s first homicide of 2025.

Prado’s discovery on a public sidewalk has prompted questions about what led to him being there and who might have been involved.

Did anyone in the community see or hear anything that afternoon, or does anyone have information about Adrian’s movements before he was found?