The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved a $20,000 reward to hopefully help solve the deadly shooting that left a 27-year-old man dead in a drive-by shooting. graduation party in Compton.
It happened around 7:45 p.m. at the intersection of East Greenleaf Boulevard and South Mayo Avenue, near Compton College. Police believe that of the approximately 100 people at the party, six people were struck by gunfire. Five of the victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
The last victim, Robert Abdelkader III, died in the backyard.
Abdelkader provided the catering for the party, which took place at his mother’s home.
The Adkins family
“I said, ‘Oh my God,’ and I heard the kids running and screaming,” mother Inez Tootie Adkins said a few days after the shooting. “I came outside and saw my son dead in my own backyard.”
His family called for justice at a press conference announcing the reward.
“Help me take a murderer off the street,” Adkins said.
Witnesses told Abdelkader’s family that the suspects were two adult males who disrupted the party. They were reportedly carrying weapons that resembled AR-15s.
Anyone with information regarding 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 from Google Play or the Apple App Store, or use the website http://lacrimestoppers.org.
