Miquel Luque, 56, a male who was Black and Latino, was fatally shot on the afternoon of October 6, 2025, on a downtown Los Angeles sidewalk near Fifth and Main streets. According to the county medical examiner, he suffered a gunshot wound to the upper back and neck, and the death was ruled a homicide. LAPD officers in the Central Division came upon the shooting in progress around 3:20–3:30 p.m., as rush-hour traffic and pedestrians crowded the corridor, and first responders pronounced him
dead shortly thereafter.
Witnessed by nearby officers, the gunman fled north on Main before cutting toward Spring and Fourth, still armed. Police pursued on foot and used less-lethal rounds to end the chase, taking the suspect into custody and transporting him to a hospital for treatment. Authorities later identified the suspect as 27-year-old Isaiah Gregory Springs; investigators have not released a motive. Streets were shut down for hours as detectives canvassed storefronts and collected security footage while the medical examiner logged the case as 2025-15784.
Officials said Springs was arrested the day of the shooting, and in the days that followed police publicly named him while reiterating that the inquiry remained active. Reports from the scene and subsequent updates confirmed the arrest but did not announce filed charges in the immediate aftermath; the case proceeded as a homicide investigation under LAPD Central Bureau detectives.
