Jordan Mosby, 19, male, described by the county medical examiner as Hispanic/Latino and Black, was shot and killed late on May 27, 2025, in Long Beach, California. Just before 11 p.m., officers responded to reports of gunfire in the 200 block of East Pacific Coast Highway near Locust Avenue. They found the 19-year-old with a gunshot wound to the upper body on the sidewalk; despite immediate aid from responding officers and Long Beach Fire personnel, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials later identified him as a resident of Atwater who had been in Long Beach when he was killed. The county listed the manner of death as homicide, with the cause a gunshot wound to the head.
Detectives opened a murder investigation overnight and canvassed the Washington neighborhood along Pacific Coast Highway for witnesses and evidence. In the days that followed, they pieced together a timeline that placed the shooting shortly before 11 p.m., noting there were calls of shots fired and that the victim died where he fell. The Gun Violence Archive later logged the incident at the same block address, reinforcing the basic contours of the scene and timing.
On June 23, 2025, nearly four weeks after the killing, detectives identified a suspect and moved to make an arrest. Police named Deriana Cole, a 19-year-old Compton resident, as the person suspected of shooting Jordan Mosby, 19, male. She was already in custody at the Long Beach City Jail on an unrelated matter when detectives re-booked her for murder; her bail was set at $2,000,000 while the case was prepared for presentation to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Authorities said the motive remained under investigation.
News outlets in the region corroborated the arrest and key investigative details. Reports from Patch, the Long Beach Post, CBS Los Angeles, MyNewsLA, and other local outlets echoed the police account: that the shooting took place along East Pacific Coast Highway near Locust Avenue, that the victim—Jordan Mosby, 19, male—died at the scene, and that the suspect—Deriana Cole, 19—was booked on suspicion of murder with a multi-million-dollar bail while prosecutors reviewed the case.
As of those reports, there were no additional suspects publicly named beyond Deriana Cole, and no publicly released motive explaining why Jordan Mosby, 19, male, was shot that night. Police asked anyone with information to contact homicide detectives, indicating the investigation was active even after the arrest.
