On Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, The Times launched a new version of the Homicide Report. You have arrived at the old blog.
Readers can no longer post new comments on this site, but we encourage you to join the conversation on our new site. The updated Homicide Report features an interactive map and searchable database of the more than 2,600 homicides in L.A. County since January 2007, when Times' reporter Jill Leovy first started this blog with the goal of covering each one.
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-- Megan Garvey and Anthony Pesce
September 11, 2009 | 11:25
pm
Joaquin Madrigal, a 20-year-old Latino, was shot several times and died Tuesday, Sept. 1, in the 8900 block of Priscilla Street in Downey, according to Los Angeles County coroner's officials.
Witnesses told police someone drove up and got out of their car, fired several shots Madrigal, then drove off, said Ed Winter, a spokesman for the coroner's office.
Police received a shots-fired call at about 1:13 a.m., and responding paramedics pronounced Madrigal dead at the scene, Winter said.
-- Anthony Pesce
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Map: The location where Joaquin Madrigal was found shot. Credit: Google Maps
