Rico Antwan Mitchell, a 34-year-old Black male from Los Angeles, was struck by gunfire late Friday night, May 23, 2025, in the Gramercy Park neighborhood and later died at a hospital. The county medical examiner identified him and ruled the death a homicide caused by a penetrating gunshot wound to the head. Formal pronouncement came that Friday, confirming the loss of the 34-year-old male whose killing was recorded under county case number 2025-08577.
According to police accounts summarized by local reporting, officers from the LAPD's 77th Street Division were called at about 10:50 p.m. to the 9800 block of South Van Ness Avenue, just north of Century Boulevard, after reports that a group confronted the victim and one assailant opened fire. He was rushed to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Multiple outlets documented the killing and its aftermath. A regional gun-violence database recorded his name, age, date, and city, tying the case to contemporaneous coverage and confirming the timing and location. Additional neighborhood alerts that night described four or more people involved before the group fled, details that align with the initial police narrative from the scene.
As of the initial investigations reported that weekend, the shooters were described as several suspects who escaped on foot, and no arrests were publicly announced. Authorities had not identified a suspect or motive in the hours after the attack, leaving detectives to canvass Gramercy Park for witnesses and evidence while next of kin were notified and the medical examiner finalized the homicide determination.
