Hoping to generate tips from the public, investigators and relatives announced a $20,000 reward for information leading to the suspect in a Compton pool party shooting that killed 28-year-old Robert Abdelkader III and injured five others.
Abdelkader was fatally shot around 7:45 p.m. June 7 at a home on Greenleaf Boulevard, near Mayo Avenue, according to the sheriff's department.
Investigators said Abdelkader was hosting a pool party attended by as many as 200 people, when a group of people who were not party guests arrived, and shots were fired. Six people were struck by the gunfire. Abdelkader died, and the other victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
L.A. Sheriff's homicide Lieutenant Hugo Reynaga told KNX News' Pete Demetriou that when shots rang out, the sizable crowd scattered, leaving detectives with very few clues.
"There's not too much information about who was attending the party, who the shooters were, or what led to the shooting in the backyard of this 'flyer party,'" Reynaga said.
Sheriff's officials did say, however, that they do not believe Abdelkader was specifically targeted in the shooting.
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"Help me get this killer off the streets, because next time, he could kill again," Abdelkader's mother, Inez Tootie Adkins, told reporters at a late-morning news conference. "And it might be your son. It might be your brother, cousin, uncle, dad."
The victim's father, Robert Abdelkader Jr., added, "Please, let's stop this. Someone saw something. Someone say something. Someone do something."
Detectives hope that the $20,000 reward will encourage someone who saw what was happening or perhaps captured critical information on video to come forward.
Anyone with information about the shooting was asked to call the sheriff's Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. Anonymous calls can be made to Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477, or tips may be sent to www.lacrimestoppers.org .
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