Homicide Report > Jorge Casillas, 28

Jorge Casillas, 28

Died March 8, 2008 at 12:31 a.m.

Jorge Casillas, a 28-year-old Latino man, was shot in the back with a shotgun in the block of 3500 E. Siskiyou Street near the Boyle Heights area about 10 p.m. Friday, March 7. 

Casillas had just arrived home and had exited his vehicle when several Latino men approached him and shot him, said Det. Scott Smith from LAPD's Rampart Division.

Casillas was taken to County-USC Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:31 a.m. the next day. 

Anyone with information is asked to call (323) 526-3000.

3544 Siskiyou St.
 
 

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Updated: Jan. 24, 2010 at 9:46 p.m.

 
 

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