Winston Leahong, 30, a Black male from Inglewood, was shot on July 28, 2025, and later pronounced dead at a local hospital at 9:44 p.m., according to county officials. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner classified the death as a homicide caused by gunshot wounds to the torso and identified him as Winston Barrington Leahong. Records list his birth on April 12, 1995, in Los Angeles County.
In the immediate aftermath, early reports from police to local media placed the shooting around 1 a.m. on July 29 near Market and Stepney streets and said the victim died at the scene. Subsequent confirmation from the medical examiner and local reporting clarified that the official date of death was July 28 and that he was pronounced at the hospital, not in the street. Community posts and witness chatter indicated he was sitting in a car when another vehicle pulled up and fired, though authorities have not publicly verified those specific details.
Family members described a young man “killed by gunfire in his hometown of Inglewood” and organized a memorial fundraiser in the days after the shooting. Online memorials soon marked the loss and aggregated links to news coverage as friends and relatives shared tributes and photographs.
As of the latest public updates, investigators had not released information about a motive, suspects, or arrests in the case. Initial police statements to media explicitly noted that information about a suspect was unavailable, and later inquiries at the station yielded no further comment. No subsequent official announcement naming a suspect or reporting an arrest has been published in connection with the killing.
