Family members and friends gathered on a street in East Los Angeles to mourn the loss of a 22-year-old woman senselessly gunned down last weekend while authorities continue the search for the suspect or suspects.
Lexus Gutierrez was sitting in a car with two friends in the 600 block of South Humphrey’s Avenue at around 11 a.m. on Jan. 21 when gunfire erupted from a Honda SUV traveling northbound on the street, authorities with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said.
The 22-year-old suffered a fatal gunshot to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. The person in the driver’s seat was injured but is expected to recover. It is unclear if the other passenger was injured.
As a memorial to Gutierrez grows at the site of the deadly shooting, family members told KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw that the 22-year-old had big aspirations, an even bigger heart and that she was the light of their lives.
“It’s just so unjust because of the person she was,” the victim’s aunt, Patricia Martinez, said. “She wasn’t a troublemaker, she had no enemies. She just was a big happy person with a big smile.”