A 16-year-old boy from Las Vegas has been taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of a man in a parking lot near the Santa Monica Pier over the weekend, police said.
The juvenile surrendered to Santa Monica Police Department detectives on the evening of July 21, two days after officers responded to a report of a possible shooting in Parking Lot 1 North, at 1550 Pacific Coast Highway, according to police.
Officers arriving at the lot at about 12:32 a.m. July 20 found an adult man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Despite life-saving efforts, the man, later identified by the Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office as Edgar Buitimea, 24, was pronounced dead at the scene…