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41 Years of Age Date of Death: 8/6/2016 City of Murder: Eureka, California Humboldt County Sheriff's Department Detective Mark Peterson 268-3663 Detective Sergeant Diana Freese 268-3639 On Saturday, August 6, 2016, at approximately 1739 hours, Deputies from the Humboldt Sheriff's Office responded to an area on Crestview Drive in Eureka regarding the report of a suspicious circumstance. On arrival, Deputies discovered that a 41 year old Brials McCutcheon was in immediate need of medical attention. McCutcheon was transported by medical staff to a local hospital and was pronounced deceased by attending hospital staff. The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office has determined the death to be a homicide. If anyone has any information that may be pertinent to the investigation, please contact Detective Mark Peterson at 268-3663 or Detective Sergeant Diana Freese at 268-3639. ​

20 Years of Age Date of Death: 11/27/2007 City of Murder:  Santa Ana, California Santa Ana Police Department   Commander Doug McGeachy Sergeant Bruce Leamer (714) 245-8648   Dizon, 20, was shot and killed November 27, 2007 in Santa Ana in a gang-related shooting, Santa Ana police said, but could not confirm whether Dizon was affiliated with a gang.   Dizon’s family insists he was not a member of any gang and was an innocent victim.   Dizon was shot about 8:30 p.m. in the 2900 block of Bradford Place near West Dyer Road, said Sgt. Bruce Leamer of the Santa Ana Police Department.   Police responded to the area after residents called saying they had heard shots and a vehicle speeding away, said Cmdr. Doug McGeachy of the Santa Ana Police Department.   Police found Dizon lying in the street. He was taken to Western Medical Center-Santa Ana, where he died, McGeachy said

39 Years of Age Date of Death: 10/31/2009 City of Murder: South Gate, California Detective Phil Guzman (323) 890-5500 Missing for 7 days and found burned in the trunk of a stolen vehicle in the Los Angeles riverbed by Firestone Blvd. under a train overpass. Reason for murder unknown. Call Los Angeles Crime Stoppers:  1-800-222-TIPS.

18 Years of Age Date of Death: 7/4/2018 City of Murder: Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Police Department Demya Beatris Rae Martin, an 18-year-old black woman, died Wednesday, July 4, 2018 after she was shot in the 9100 block of South Western Avenue in Gramercy Park, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. Shortly after midnight, Martin was standing in front of a duplex with at least two other people when a person in a black hoodie walked up and began shooting, said Los Angeles Police Det. Chris Barling. Martin was wounded multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene at 12:10 a.m., according to coroner’s records. The gunman ran north to West 91st Street and got into a dark-colored sedan, Barling said. Police believe the suspect was a gang member looking to find rivals in enemy territory. Martin was not a gang member. Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at (323) 786-5113. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.

18 Years of Age Date of Death: 4/14/2015 City of Murder: Los Angeles, California Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Detective Daniel Morris (323) 574-5634   Detective Richard Tomin (323) 574 4518   Angel Roberto Ledesma, a 18-year-old Latino male, died Tuesday, April 14, 2015 after being shot in East Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records. At least two people know who killed 18-year-old Angel Ledesma. That's the belief LA County Sheriff homicide detectives are going on, nearly seven years since Ledesma was shot and killed in an alley in East Los Angeles. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Detective Rich Tomlin was there the day Ledesma was killed and continues to investigate the killing. He says Ledesma was with two friends in an alley near Cesar Chavez and Alma Street when someone walked past them in the opposite direction. "Nothing was said, no confrontation when suddenly that individual stopped," Tomlin says. "He had a backpack, turned and retrieved a handgun and started firing at the three young men."

21 Years of Age Date of Death: 8/6/2018 City of Murder: Long Beach, California Jioni Malik Kyles, a 21-year-old black male , died Monday, August 6, 2018 after being shot in Long Beach , according to Los Angeles County coroner's records and assailant remains at large. Officers responded about 10:45 p.m. Monday to the 3200 block of Andy Street, where they found the victim, identified by the coroner’s office as Jioni Malik Kyles, of Long Beach, struck by gunfire in the upper torso, police said. “Officers began performing life saving measures at the scene. Subsequently, the Long Beach Fire Department responded and determined the victim deceased,” police said in a news release. Police said no witnesses have come forward and no suspect information was available. Detectives were working to determine a motive. Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call homicide detectives Ben Vargas and Sean Irving at 562-570-7244. Tips can be shared anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477) or by using the P3 Tips smartphone app.

14 Years of Age Date of Death:10/18/2001 City of Murder: Carson, California Los Angeles Sheriff Department - Homicide Division (323) 890-5500 File No. 001-13670-1616-011 On October 18, 2001, Dwayne was out riding his bicycle with family and friends. Shortly after 5:30, a car described as a 1980 Chevrolet Caprice, four-door sedan with a taxi cab sign attached to the top approached the group in front of 1473 E. Fernrock Street, Carson, CA. Dwayne thought they were looking for directions but couldn't hear what was being said so he moved closer to the vehicle. The passenger in the back seat shot Dwayne in the chest with a shotgun. The driver was described as a black male, about 17-20 years old at the time, bald and wearing dark clothing The back seat passenger was described as a dark complexion male with cornrows, also believed to range in age from 17 to 20 years old. Anyone with information should contact Detective P. Martinez or Detective M. Lillenfeld at Los Angeles Sheriff Homicide Division (323) 890-5500. File No. 001-13670-1616-011.

21 Years of Age Date of Death 9/28/2017 City of Murder: Compton, California Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department - Homicide Bureau (323) 890-5500 Estephan Hernandez, a 21-year-old Latino, was shot and killed Thursday, September 28, 2017 in the 1100 block of East 148th Street in West Compton, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. Hernandez was sitting in his parked car talking to a friend when a black, four-door sedan drove up beside them about 9:30 p.m., Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. Joe Mendoza said. A person in the sedan fired while the car was in motion, Mendoza said. The vehicle was last seen driving west on 148th Street, away from Hernandez’s car. Hernandez, a college senior scheduled to graduate in the spring, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene at 9:45 p.m., according to coroner’s records. Hernandez lived in the neighborhood and was not involved in gangs, Mendoza said. Investigators don’t have a motive for the shooting or any information about the gunman. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500. Those wishing to remain anonymous should call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.

50 Years of Age Date of Death: 6/28/2019 City of Murder: Inglewood, California   Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Team Sergeant John Carlin (323) 574-1302 jtcarlin@lasd Detective Amber Montenegro Lieutenant Brandon Dean (310) 574-4582   Paul Edward "PJ" Foster, a 50-year-old black man, died Friday, June 28, 2019 after he was shot outside 14115 Crenshaw Boulevard in Hawthorne, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's office.   Foster was standing outside his workplace, the En Effect Barber Shop, eating a bowl of cereal around 10:50 a.m. when a silver-colored sedan pulled into the parking lot, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Brandon Dean. Two men got out of the car wearing dark-colored ski masks and began firing at Foster, striking him multiple times, Dean said. The men ran back to their car and drove away, heading west on Rosecrans Avenue. Foster was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 12:42 p.m., according to coroner's records. The cause of death was listed as multiple gunshot wounds.   A customer standing near Foster was injured with a gunshot wound to his left shoulder, but is expected to survive, Dean said. The shooters didn't speak before opening fire, Dean said, and investigators don't have a motive for the shooting.   Foster was a father of two children and had worked at the barbershop for more than 10 years, family told ABC7 News.   Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Amber Montenegro at (310) 574-4582 or John Carlin at (323) 574-1302. or Sheriff's Bureau at (323) 890-5500. Those wishing to remain anonymous should call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.

33 Years of Age Date of Death: 7/9/2012 City of Murder: Carson, California Los Angeles Sheriff's Department LASD Team 2 Lieutenant Daniel Fizcarra (323) 890-5580 Dvizcar@lasd.org   David John Flores Jr., a 33-year-old Latino, was fatally shot Monday, July 9, 2012 near 228th and Figueroa Streets in Carson, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.   A passing motorist saw a stopped car in the left turn lane with the driver slumped over the steering wheel about 10:37 a.m., according to a Sheriff's Department news release. The passerby called 911, and when authorities arrived, they saw Flores in the vehicle with a gunshot wound to the torso. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Investigators said there was no motive or witnesses to the shooting.   Anyone with information about the attack is asked to contact the sheriff’s homicide bureau at (323) 890-5500. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.

25 Years of Age Date of Death: 5/18/2011 City of Murder: Wilmington, California   Los Angeles Police Department - South Bureau Officers Rivas (310) 726-7882 Officers Yoon (310) 726-7880  File No. 11-05-01322   James Dominguez, a 25-year-old Latino, was shot and killed Wednesday, May 18, 2011 near Wilmington Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway in Wilmington, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.   Police received a shooting call about 5:45 p.m., according to an LAPD news release. When authorities arrived, they found Dominguez slumped inside a car. Dominguez had been shot several times and the car he was traveling in had hit a fire hydrant, police said. Paramedics were called and Dominguez was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.   During the investigation, detectives learned Dominguez was driving in his car north on Wilmington Boulevard near Pacific Coast Highway when a red car drove alongside him. Someone in the red car pulled out a gun and shot several times into Dominguez’ vehicle, hitting him. Authorities said Dominguez’s car continued north through the intersection and stopped after hitting a fire hydrant on the northwest corner. The shooter was last seen driving southbound on Wilmington Boulevard.   No arrests have been made. The motive for the shooting remains unknown. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Harbor area homicide Officers Rivas or Yoon at (310) 726-7882 or (310) 726-7880. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS (800-222-8477).

14 Years of Age Date of Death: 1/24/2006 City of Murder: Los Angeles, California Detective Torres (213) 996-4113 Tucked behind the taquerías, mariscos spots and auto body shops that line  Los Angeles ’ East Olympic Boulevard is an area of abandoned-looking warehouses surrounded by steel and tall fences. The constant hum of factory machines swallows the sounds of the busy boulevard. It’s an area desolate enough for someone to throw a huge underground party completely under the radar and desolate enough for someone to think they could hide a body there. It’s where, on a Wednesday morning in January of 2006, an employee of a warehouse found the body of a local missing teen. Her name was Emmery Muñoz and to this day, her case remains unsolved.  “We want answers. That’s not going to bring Emmery back, but we need to know why and, and who. Again, it’s not going to bring her back, but it’s going to give us a little bit of peace.” Becky Haro, Muñoz’s aunt and godmother, told VICE. 4.7M 1.3K Muñoz was 14 years old, just a few months shy of her quinceañera. She was a freshman at Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School. She was also the eldest daughter in her  Mexican American  family. Her younger sister Crystal Gutierrez was six years old at the time and one of her earliest memories with her big sister is of them dancing together in the lush garden of their City Terrace home. “No matter what the song was, she was always dancing. And I remember she would try to teach me. And I was just right there, like a little four year old. Didn’t know what the heck I was doing,” Gutierrez remembered fondly. “I know I only had her for a brief moment of time, but those six years taught me basically everything you would expect from a big sister.” The last day that Muñoz was seen alive was a Friday afternoon on a crisp LA winter day. She and her siblings had a pretty normal weekday. They woke up, got ready, went to school and came home. According to her mother, Muñoz left to go to a friend’s house and said she would be back by 7.30 or 8PM. When her mom got home from the market, Muñoz wasn’t there. The next morning, her mom reported her missing.  Days passed and still no one had heard from her. Her friends and family put up missing person fliers all over their neighborhood. “It just feels like it was everlasting. Like nothing felt right,” Gutierrez recalls. On Wednesday, six days after Muñoz went missing, her family got the news – her body was found at a warehouse in Boyle Heights, a few miles away from her home. She was identified by her school lunch card. “Like I said, everything felt super gloomy. When I picture all this, I picture just gray clouds in the sky,” Guiterrez recalls of that day in 2006. “It was probably like the sunniest day in January, but I pictured clouds. It was hard.” The Los Angeles Police Department described the warehouse as a  place where teens would gather to throw parties . Immediately, it was assumed by  local media  and the LAPD that she must have been at a party the night she went missing.   Soon after, it was  reported  that Muñoz was a member of an all-girl party crew called the Vicious Ladies. The term “party crew” is simple. It’s a group of friends who are dedicated to going to and throwing  underground parties  called flier parties. The parties usually took place in someone’s backyard or an empty warehouse and the music of choice was  2000s hip-hop  and  reggaeton . Imagine Too $hort’s “Shake That Monkey” or N.O.R.E.’s Daddy Yankee and Nina Sky-assisted “Oye Mi Canto” blaring through a bulky floor speaker next to a fog machine and party lights.  In the party crew scene, teens were the architects of their own world. The scene spanned all across LA county – in places like East LA, South Central and the San Gabriel Valley – and was made up of hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of mostly  Latinx  teens. Muñoz was part of the scene in the mid-2000s, but the culture of  party crews goes back decades before to the 90s  and  even the 80s , each with their own style and music. For teens in every era, the party crew scene was a safe space to express themselves without parental supervision, forget about the pressures that comes with being  children of immigrants  and to create community with other teens across LA. And while the scene offered a safe space for many, there was also a dark side. Violence did happen at parties. There was underage drinking, fights would break out, shootings happened and  people got killed . LAPD saw party crews as a type of gang and worked alongside  LA’s city council , which eventually used Muñoz’s murder as part of their rallying cry to stop party crews once and for all.  “When we found out that they found her in a warehouse, supposedly that’s where parties have been held… but that doesn’t connect Emmery to a certain party that night or flier party or the reason why she got killed,” Regina Borranian, Muñoz’s childhood friend and former member of a party crew called Tempted 2 Touch, told VICE. “They’re trying to connect to things that don’t go together.”  Party crew members attending flier parties in 2003. Photo: Courtesy of Techno4.us Muñoz’s link to the party crew world was part of why her murder got a lot of media attention. But what evidence was there that her murder was tied to party crews? And why is her case still unsolved?  Why did party crews get blamed for her death and what does that say about the scene? In our new podcast  Party Crews: The Untold Story , I attempt to answer those questions. Because when I was a teen in the early 2000s, I was also in an all-girl party crew called the Lustful Laydeez. And when I first came across Muñoz’s case, her story felt personal. She was only a few years younger than me. I kept thinking: ‘Could I have bumped into her at a party?’ We were both just kids navigating through a world that wasn’t made for us.  Almost two decades have passed since Becky Haro last saw her niece. But it hasn’t stopped her or the family to continue looking for answers. Haro has been following up with the case as it has moved on from detective to detective from the homicide unit at LAPD’s Hollenbeck station to the cold case unit at Central Bureau. “I feel sometimes that I’m wasting my breath and I’m wasting my time,” Haro told me when I spoke to her in the summer of 2021. She said that many of her calls to detectives on the case have gone unanswered. “But then after I said, if we don’t push them, if we don’t keep her name, if we don’t follow, nothing is ever going to be solved. But then I think it’s 15 years, you know, is it ever going to happen?” During the course of our reporting, LAPD told us in November of 2021 that Muñoz’s case was considered “fresh” again, meaning that while it had been cold, they were investigating new information related to the case. In February of 2022, one of our sources was able to get Muñoz’s family a face-to-face meeting with the current detectives on her case, giving them a chance to finally be heard. Soon after, her family set up an instagram account called  @justiceforemmerymunoz  to gather information anyone might have about Muñoz’s murder. And in July of 2022, the LA city council ended up re-issuing a reward for $50,000 for any information in her case, though this expired six months later in January of 2023. Today, Emmery would be in her early thirties. She might have been a nurse, just like her aunt told me that she wanted to be. She might have had kids, just like her siblings do. But instead she is frozen in time. Her death is tragic and It’s also a loss that is ambiguous, without closure.   Tribute for Emmery Muñoz in the Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School 2006 yearbook. She was a freshman when she was killed. Photo: Janice Llamoca Last year, on the 16th anniversary of Muñoz death, I visited her grave for the first time along with her sister Crystal Gutierrez. In the picture on her tombstone, Muñoz is smiling, wearing a little knitted hat that she had just gotten for Christmas a month prior. Engraved are the words “in loving memory of our little girl, Emmery Muñoz.” The day started off sunny, but as we stood there, the sky became gray and it started to drizzle. I asked Gutierrez how it felt to be there after so much time has passed. “Feels weird because I expected us to grow up together, like physically together, not virtually separate. So having to see her under these circumstances, it’s almost surreal,” she told me. “It doesn’t feel like she’s gone, but the reality is that she is, but it never feels like it.”