Delilah Bravo, 18, a Hispanic female, was found shot at her residence in Venice, California, on September 1, 2025. The Los Angeles County medical examiner recorded her manner of death as homicide and the cause as a gunshot wound to the head, identifying her as a young mother from Lynwood. Formal pronouncement was made that Monday, and the case was logged under coroner case number 2025-13884.
Detectives quickly focused on a single suspect: 20-year-old Andres Hernan Contreras, who, according to reporting, may be the father of Bravo's one-year-old daughter. He was arrested and booked, then held at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic on $3,000,000 bail. Court records guidance indicated the next hearing was set for October 2 at 8:30 a.m. in Department W31 at the Airport Courthouse on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles.
As family and friends shared tributes online to mark her loss to gun violence, public memorial pages echoed the essentials of the case: an 18-year-old killed by gunfire in Venice, a life abbreviated just as it was taking shape. She leaves behind a baby daughter, a family now navigating grief, and a criminal case moving through the courts against the man accused of taking her life.
