Reward Offered in Murder of Deaf Coach

Deaf community in mourning over killing

A $50,000 reward was offered Tuesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who killed the 30-year-old man coach of a basketball team for deaf students at Fairfax High School.
  
Eddy Hernandez, who was a deaf mute himself, was walking in the 3700 block of South Main Street around 10:40 p.m. Jan. 26 when he was killed by a single gunshot, police said.
  
Because he was found in an area with a lot of vehicle and pedestrian traffic, Newton Division homicide detectives sought the public's help in finding his killer.
  
Anyone with information was asked to call detectives Louie Calzadillas at (323) 846-6556 or David Torres at (323) 290-6063.

The deaf community is torn up over the murder and a simple search of Eddy Hernandez's name reveals many website entries about the outrage over his murder.

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