Rudolph Anthony Lopez, 68, a Latino male, was shot to death in the driveway of a home in the 2000 block of East Harding Street in Long Beach before dawn on Thursday, May 29, 2025. Officers were dispatched at about 5:15–5:17 a.m. and found him with gunshot wounds to the upper body; fire personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner later listed the manner of death as homicide and the cause as gunshot wounds to the head.
Detectives soon learned of a man in apparent mental distress near 49th Street and Del Amo Boulevard. When officers contacted him, he made statements connecting himself to the shooting. Investigators identified the man as 24-year-old Long Beach resident Garrett Remillard, determined he was the person responsible, and arrested him. He was booked on suspicion of murder at Long Beach Police Jail with bail set at $2,000,000. Preliminary findings indicated that Remillard and Lopez knew one another, though a clear motive had not been established at that time.
Authorities publicly identified the victim as Rudolph Anthony Lopez in the days after the killing. Early same-day reports noted a man had been found fatally wounded in a driveway on Harding Street with no suspect initially named, but subsequent releases and coverage detailed the arrest within hours of the shooting. The case was recorded by regional outlets that track homicides and gun-violence victims, further corroborating the circumstances and location of the crime.
