In what family members are calling a senseless act of violence, police in Southern California are investigating after a 19-year-old man was fatally shot in along a Los Angeles street just days before Christmas.
The shooting took place on Dec. 18 in the city’s Boyle Heights neighborhood and the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office recently identified the victim as Jason Alexander Ramirez.
At the crime scene, the Los Angeles Police Department reported they found the victim just after midnight inside a Kia Soul suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, KTLA-TV reported.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, medical examiner’s office online records show.
‘Shot down for no reason’
As of Wednesday, it was not immediately known if any arrests had been made in the case and a motive was not known.
USA TODAY has reached out to police.
“I want the public to know that my son was a good boy,” Ramirez’s mother told the outlet on camera. “He was on his way home from dropping off his sister at work…. he was shot down for no reason.”