On July 29, 2023, at about 4:03 p.m., deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department found 33-year-old Fidel Cortez with gunshot wounds to his upper body in a pallet yard in the 2000 block of Santa Fe Avenue in Compton, a commercial-industrial area north of the Gardena (91) Freeway. Paramedics pronounced Cortez dead at the scene and the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office later confirmed his identity.

Detectives from the Sheriff’s Homicide Division are leading the investigation and have asked anyone with information to contact them or Crime Stoppers. Community members have expressed concern about safety and gun violence in the area, and local organizations are calling for increased efforts to promote peace.

Did anyone in the area on July 29, 2023, see or hear anything that could help investigators?