Taniya Delouth, 49, was shot to death on June 16, 2025, in South Los Angeles. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene in the Central-Alameda neighborhood near Central Avenue and 50th Street; the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner ruled the manner of death a homicide and listed the cause as a gunshot wound to the head.

Investigators reported a vehicle fled west on 50th Street after the attack and no suspect description was immediately available. A second victim, 48-year-old Travon Pratt, was also struck by gunfire, taken to a hospital in critical condition and later died; the medical examiner recorded his death as a homicide from multiple gunshot wounds. As of mid-June, no arrests had been announced and detectives from LAPD Newton Division were asking anyone with information to come forward.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or saw a vehicle leaving the area around Central and 50th Street that evening, please contact Newton Division detectives with any information.