An adult male was found dead Saturday morning in the 13000 block of Crossroads Parkway North in the City of Industry, prompting a shooting death investigation by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s homicide detectives. The man was pronounced deceased at the scene, and no information about a suspect has been released.
According to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the incident was reported at approximately 7:10 a.m. Investigators with the department’s Homicide Bureau are leading the inquiry, and the department says no additional information is currently available. Lieutenant Steven De Jong, who has directed multiple major death and homicide investigations across the county, including cases in Pearlblossom and Lancaster over the past two years, oversees the bureau’s investigative teams.
The block where the man died sits inside Crossroads Business Park, a 400-acre master-planned commercial development managed by Majestic Realty Co., whose corporate headquarters is also located on the same street. The corridor is dominated by multi-story office buildings and corporate tenants rather than homes, giving the area an unmistakably commercial character even in the early morning hours.
A Business Corridor With Few Residents but Major Government Operations
The City of Industry is an unusual place for any death investigation to unfold. Census data from 2020 shows the city has just 264 residents spread across 12 square miles, making it the third least populous incorporated city in California even though it hosts more than 3,000 businesses and roughly 67,000 daytime workers. That imbalance means violent crime incidents in Industry almost always affect employees or visitors rather than people living nearby…