Nicholas Noly Wiratman Simbolon, 42, was fatally shot at his San Dimas home on November 28, 2023. After stopping at an electric vehicle charging station on South Citrus Street in West Covina, he was followed to his Hawkbrook Drive residence. As he parked his Tesla in the garage around 6:45 p.m., an assailant confronted him, demanded personal belongings, and then shot him. His wife found him unresponsive in the garage; Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

Simbolon worked for the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office as a Principal Information Systems Analyst and is survived by his wife, his mother, and two sons, ages 8 and 10. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reviewed surveillance footage showing the suspect following him and, within 48 hours, arrested 33-year-old Los Angeles resident Jerrid Joseph Powell during a Beverly Hills traffic stop. A firearm recovered from Powell’s vehicle is believed to be the weapon used; he was booked on suspicion of murder and robbery with bail set at $2 million and an initial court date set for December 4, 2023. Ballistics and vehicle identification investigators later linked Powell to several other late-November shootings of unhoused people in Los Angeles County.

What did neighbors or anyone who was near the West Covina charging station or Hawkbrook Drive notice that evening?