On Oct. 5, 1967, Huntington Park Police Officer Robert Keller was fatally shot while responding to a burglary at a business on Pacific Boulevard.
For 57 years his murder has gone unsolved, and now the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors are hoping a renewed $20,000 reward will spur new developments in the decades-old cold case.
On Tuesday, the Board approved a motion to reestablish the reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for Keller’s killing. The motion was authored by Fourth District Supervisor Janice Hahn, whose district encompasses Huntington Park.
“The murder of Officer Robert Keller continues to be painful for the Huntington Park community and his family,” Hahn said in a news release. “This many years later, we hold out hope that we can solve this case and provide some sense of closure to Officer Keller’s family. I urge anyone with any information about this murder to share what they know with our Sheriff’s detectives.”
Keller was a U.S. Navy veteran, a husband and a father to a newborn baby. He had been a member of the Huntington Park Police Department for only a year.