Ricardo Manuel Perez-Montalvan, a 31-year-old Latino man, was fatally shot on the evening of December 30, 2025, in East Los Angeles. The shooting happened about 8:15 p.m. in the 4700 block of Telegraph Road while Perez-Montalvan was seated inside a parked vehicle with three other adult men.

Multiple suspects approached the car and opened fire. Perez-Montalvan suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. The three other occupants were wounded and taken to a local hospital; two were listed in critical condition and one in stable condition. The suspects fled in a vehicle last seen heading northbound on Arizona Avenue.

No arrests or public identifications have been made and investigators have not released a motive. Anyone who was in the area that night or saw a vehicle leaving north on Arizona Avenue is asked to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department with information.