On April 7, 2024, at about 1:15 a.m., deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Cerritos station responded to a vehicle collision in the 13300 block of Artesia Boulevard in Cerritos. A man was found inside a car with significant front-end damage and suffering from gunshot wounds to the upper body. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. The Medical Examiner-Coroner confirmed the cause of death as a gunshot wound to the chest and classified the death as a homicide.

The victim has been identified as 42-year-old Enrique Vega. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau is investigating and asks anyone with information to contact them or submit anonymous tips through Crime Stoppers. Enrique’s family held a viewing and rosary on April 25, 2024, at Douglass Family Mortuary in Lynwood and a church mass on April 26 at St. Emydius Catholic Church; his sister Jessica Vega launched a GoFundMe to support the family.

If anyone has information about Enrique Vega’s death or was near Artesia Boulevard the early morning of April 7, please come forward to investigators.