A year later, a reward has been offered by police after the death of a young father still has family looking for answers. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at 5 on Friday, April 22, 2016.
Authorities on Friday announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for fatally shooting a father in front of his girlfriend and infant daughter in Compton last year.
Homicide detectives exhausted all known leads in the June 28 murder of 25-year-old Roberto Lucio of Compton, and solicited help from the public Friday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Lucio was shot outside his home in front of his girlfriend and infant daughter about 11:35 a.m. in the 1500 block of West 154th Street, LASD said. He later died at a hospital.
At a news conference in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, family members expressed their grief and pleaded for help to find Lucio's killer.
"Living in Compton, I always saw people get killed," said Gladys Lucio, the victim's sister. "But when it happened to me, it changed my whole perspective about everything."
Lucio's family said he had stepped outside of his home with his family to buy toiletries, when a man in a vehicle pulled up and started shooting.
Lucio's father said he was shot in the heart, and he ran to his side and held his head in his hands -- but Lucio was already dead when help arrived.
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"He looked at my dad with his eyes opened, like he wanted to say something to my dad," Yesenia Lucio said.
The shooter, described as a man in his early 20s, fled the scene. He is believed to have taken off in a dark-colored, newer model Kia Optima with paper plates, authorities said.
"Nobody has the right to take anybody’s life away. I think we should stop him before he does it to anybody else," Gladys Lucio said.
