Los Angeles County Sheriff's homicide detectives are asking the public's help to find the suspects involved in triple shooting that occurred last year at a gas station in South Los Angeles.
The surveillance video from the early hours of Aug. 4, 2016 shows three cars driving by a 76 gas station. The shooter was driving a gray Nissan Sentra when detectives say he pulled out an automatic rifle and shot multiple times toward a couple inside a tan Mercedes.
The video shows the multiple blasts that blew out the back window of the victim's car and hit the power box to the gas station, knocking out the power.
The shooter killed 26-year-old Cordero Dougal, who was behind the wheel, and injured Cordero’s girlfriend and a homeless man.
Detectives want to speak to the people who were inside a blue Lexus at the time of the shooting.
"We need people that knew who were in those vehicles that night to come forward and tell us who were in those vehicles," LASD homicide detective Steve Blagg said.
The shooting happened across from the Nickerson Gardens Housing Project, but detectives aren't sure if there is a connection. They say Dougal was a documented gang member.
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"I subscribe to the creed that everybody matters or nobody matters," Blagg said. "It doesn’t matter what a person does in life, nobody deserves to be murdered.”
Getting witnesses to come forward after the brutal murder has been the hardest part of the investigation: a fear on the street of retaliation.
"We need people to come forward, they just need to get over the fear," Blagg said. "There's ways for us to protect people who do come forward and provide information on these cases. But we're not going to be able to solve these cases without those witnesses coming forward and speaking to us."
