Kevin Carlos Villalpando was shot and killed on the morning of May 16, 2024, in the 8300 block of South Denker Avenue in the Manchester Square area of South Los Angeles. Officers arriving around 7:30 a.m. found the 23-year-old with multiple gunshot wounds; paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner ruled the death a homicide.

Kevin was born August 19, 2000, in Los Angeles. An obituary named his parents Maria De Jesus Contreras Villafana and J. De Jesus Villalpando Gonzalez, his brother Jesus Ernesto Villalpando Contreras, and his daughter as survivors and described him as kind, determined, with an infectious smile. Detectives with LAPD South Bureau Homicide are investigating and have asked anyone with information to contact them or submit anonymous tips to Crime Stoppers.

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