Kamico Boykin, 23, was shot in the early morning hours of August 22, 2025, in a residential section of Compton. Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded about 2:45 a.m. to the 2100 block of North Kalsman Avenue, near Centennial High School, where they found evidence of a shooting and learned Boykin had been taken for treatment. She was transported to St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood and was pronounced dead there that Friday. The county medical examiner ruled the manner of death homicide, listing multiple gunshot wounds as the cause.

Detectives opened a homicide investigation and asked the public for help but did not release a suspect description. Reports shortly after the shooting said a woman with blood on her shirt was seen outside the Lynwood hospital and was believed to have helped get Boykin there; the California Highway Patrol was also alerted that the victim was being driven to the hospital in a gray Hyundai Elantra. No arrests had been announced and no suspects publicly named. If anyone witnessed the shooting on Kalsman Avenue or saw the car or people involved that morning, come forward with what was seen.