Sixteen-year-old Erick Salazar Flores was fatally shot on July 6, 2024, near Inglewood, California. The shooting happened around 4:08 p.m. in the 10800 block of Buford Avenue, near Lennox Boulevard. An unidentified person took Erick to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead; the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office identified him and ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound to the abdomen and the manner homicide.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department opened a homicide investigation and the Homicide Bureau processed the scene and asked the public for help. No arrests or suspect identifications have been publicly reported and detectives continue to seek leads. If anyone saw activity in the area that afternoon or has information about who brought Erick to the hospital, please contact the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers.