Los Angeles County officers have established a $20,000 reward for info concerning the deadly taking pictures of a Huntington Park police officer that has gone unsolved for greater than 5 a long time.
Investigators hope the reward, which the county Board of Supervisors approved Tuesday, will carry consideration to the case and encourage witnesses or those that would possibly know the identification of the shooter to come back ahead.
“The homicide of Officer Robert Keller continues to be painful for the Huntington Park group and his household,” Supervisor Janice Hahn stated in a press release.
Hahn went on to say that she, in addition to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division, hopes to unravel the case and supply some sense of closure for Keller’s household.
On Oct. 5, 1967, Keller responded to an emergency name prompted by a silent housebreaking alarm at a costume store referred to as the Marvel Store on Pacific Boulevard, in response to a Huntington Park Police Division memorial web page.
Keller and a safety officer from the alarm firm met exterior and entered the shop collectively. As they searched the enterprise, an individual — who had apparently entered via a skylight — emerged from a hiding place and opened hearth, in response to the memorial web page.
Keller and the intruder exchanged roughly 12 rounds, authorities stated. Keller was shot within the chest in the course of the gunfight and later died from his accidents.
The shooter ran from the shop, abandoning a path of blood indicating a possible gunshot wound.
The shooter was by no means recognized “regardless of an intense manhunt” that included murder detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division.
The case stays unsolved, although murder detectives proceed to research, in response to Board of Supervisors agenda paperwork.
Keller was a U.S. Navy veteran and had been a member of the Huntington Park Police Division for one yr, in response to his memorial web page.
Anybody with info is requested to name sheriff’s murder Lt. Joseph Purcell at (323) 890-5565. Ideas might be made anonymously on-line at lacrimestoppers.org or by cellphone at (800) 222-8477.
In a press release, Huntington Park Mayor Marilyn Sanabria thanked the Board of Supervisors and the Sheriff’s Division for the continued assist and for committing further sources to “unravel this notorious crime.”
