{"id":71784,"date":"2016-05-19T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T22:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=71784"},"modified":"2017-07-30T17:39:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T00:39:38","slug":"palmdale-man-killed-in-compton-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/05\/19\/palmdale-man-killed-in-compton-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmdale man killed in Compton shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COMPTON &#8211; The man shot and killed while riding a\u00a0bike in Compton last week has been identified as 26-year-old <strong>Anthony Alexander<\/strong> of Palmdale, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shooting occurred around 5:20 p.m. Saturday, May 14, in the 400 block of West\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caldwell Street in Compton, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/local.nixle.com\/alert\/5640925\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release from the Sheriff\u2019s Information Bureau<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDetectives have learned that Compton Sheriff\u2019s Station deputies responded to the location regarding an \u2018assault with a deadly weapon\/gunshot victim\u2019 call. When deputies arrived, they found a male victim lying in the middle of the street,\u201d the news release states. \u201cThe victim was apparently riding his bike on Caldwell Street when unknown person(s) shot him multiple times in the torso.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexander was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The circumstances of the shooting are still under investigation and no suspect information is available at this time, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone with information about what happened is asked to call the Sheriff&#8217;s Homicide Bureau\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at 323-890-5500. Anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at (800)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">222-TIPS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMPTON &#8211; The man shot and killed while riding a\u00a0bike in Compton last week has been identified as 26-year-old Anthony Alexander of Palmdale, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner\u2019s Office. The shooting occurred around 5:20 p.m. Saturday, May 14, in the 400 block of West\u00a0Caldwell Street in Compton, according to a news release from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71784"}],"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=71784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}