On a quiet early-morning stretch of Marengo Street in Boyle Heights, Oscar Medina, a 19-year-old man, was out tagging a wall when the darkness was shattered by the sound of gunfire. Around 1:25 to 1:30 a.m. on Monday, November 17, 2025, a vehicle rolled up alongside the wall he was working on near the 2700–2900 block of Marengo Street at Evergreen Avenue, a mostly industrial corridor that cuts through the Eastside neighborhood of Los Angeles. Moments earlier, the street had been empty, with on
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