Marquis Ripetoe, 31, a Black male from Lancaster, was fatally shot on May 12, 2025, and pronounced dead at a hospital that evening. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner identified him as Marquis Leon Ripetoe and determined the manner of death to be homicide, with a gunshot wound to the head listed as the cause. Formal pronouncement of death came at 8:33 p.m., underscoring how quickly the medical response turned into a coroner’s case on a late-spring night in the Antelope Valley.
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