A late-night shooting at a house party in Hawthorne left two men dead on October 27, 2024. At about 2:10 a.m., a male suspect entered the backyard of a home in the 3600 block of West El Segundo Boulevard and opened fire, striking 29-year-old Juan Lopez and 30-year-old Joe Reyes Vasquez. Both men were found in the rear yard and were pronounced dead at the scene.

The suspect fled in an unknown direction and no arrests have been announced. Authorities have not released a motive or a suspect description. Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau are assisting the Hawthorne Police Department; anyone with information is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500 or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or lacrimestoppers.org.

If anyone attended that party or has information about the shooter, please come forward to investigators.