{"id":102204,"date":"2021-06-22T18:26:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T01:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=102204"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:26:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T01:26:31","slug":"l-a-county-issues-reward-in-lancaster-fatal-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2021\/06\/22\/l-a-county-issues-reward-in-lancaster-fatal-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. County issues reward in Lancaster fatal shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_102206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102206\" style=\"width: 979px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ismael-Zabala-Facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102206\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ismael-Zabala-Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"979\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ismael-Zabala-Facebook.jpg 979w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ismael-Zabala-Facebook-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ismael-Zabala-Facebook-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ismael Zabala [Image via Facebook]<\/figcaption><\/figure>LANCASTER &#8211; The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today offered a $10,000 reward in the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old army veteran killed on the doorstep of his cousin&#8217;s birthday party in Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Kathryn Barger called for a reward for information on the whereabouts of a suspect in the fatal shooting of <strong>Ismael Zabala<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/file.lacounty.gov\/SDSInter\/bos\/supdocs\/159275.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>[View the motion here.]<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ismael and his brother <strong>Charlie<\/strong> were attending a cousin&#8217;s birthday party on Dec. 20, 2020, in the 400 block of West Avenue J-12.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; \" id=\"theav-1805927531\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4504301096758439\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4504301096758439\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5907184250\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ismael was fatally shot while standing at the front door of the Lancaster home at about 2:30 a.m. Charlie was also struck by gunfire, but survived.<\/p>\n<p>Ismael had been recently honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, and Barger said his family was &#8220;distraught by this senseless tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Investigators identified <strong>Oscar Palazuelos<\/strong> and <strong>Ervin Alvarez<\/strong> as being involved in the killing. Warrants were issued and Alvarez was subsequently arrested, but Palazuelos remains at large, according to Barger.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information on the shooting is encouraged to call Sheriff&#8217;s Homicide Lt. Derrick Alfred at 323- 890-5554 or Crime Stoppers 800-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Previous related story<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/12\/21\/two-brothers-shot-one-fatally-at-lancaster-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two brothers shot, one fatally, at Lancaster home<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8211; The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today offered a $10,000 reward in the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old army veteran killed on the doorstep of his cousin&#8217;s birthday party in Lancaster. Supervisor Kathryn Barger called for a reward for information on the whereabouts of a suspect in the fatal shooting of Ismael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,1499,10,1496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}