$20,000 reward offered to find people who opened fire at Compton graduation

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved a $20,000 reward to hopefully help solve the fatal shooting that left a 27-year-old man dead during a shootout. graduation party in Compton.

It happened at the intersection of East Greenleaf Boulevard and South Mayo Avenue around 7:45 p.m., near Compton College. Police estimate that out of the hundred people at the party, 6 people were hit by gunfire. Five of the victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

The last victim, Robert Abdelkader III, died backyard.

Abdelkader organized the party, which took place at his mother’s house.

“I said, ‘Oh my God,’ and I heard the kids running and screaming,” mother Inez Tootie Adkins said days after the shooting. “I came out and saw my son lying dead in my own backyard.”

His family demanded justice at a news conference announcing the reward.

“Help me take a killer off the streets,” Adkins said.

Witnesses told Abdelkader’s family that the suspects were two adult men who organized the party. They carried weapons that looked like AR-15s.

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.

If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you can call “Crime Stoppers” by dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477), use your smartphone by downloading the “P3 Tips” mobile app on Google Play or Apple App Store or using the site http://lacrimestoppers.org