Long Beach police Wednesday released a composite drawing of a man wanted for fatally shooting a man in a park.
The crime occurred about 4:30 p.m. July 21 in a restroom at Pan American Park in the 5100 block of Centralia Street, according to the Long Beach Police Department.
Fred Taft, 57, of Long Beach, was shot in the head and upper body while attending a family reunion at the park, police said.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors offered a $10,000 reward and the city of Long Beach authorized a $20,000 reward for help in solving the crime.
Taft's assailant was described as a white man in his 50s, 6 feet tall and with a medium build. Witnesses said he was wearing a dark shirt, light shorts and a hat.
Police said a motive for the crime was unknown, but relatives of Taft, who was black, believe the killing was a hate crime.
Taft's daughter previously said that a person who had been playing softball nearby said his group had been harassed in the park hours before the shooting by a group of white men on bikes who were using racial slurs.
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A friend of Taft's who was at the party said she saw a man carrying a rifle run out of the bathroom toward Centralia Avenue after the shooting.
Anyone with information was urged to contact Long Beach police homicide Detectives Michael Hubbard and Adrian Garcia at (562) 570-7244.
