Reward Offered for Info to Solve Long Beach Man's Slaying in Compton

County supervisors approved a $10,000 reward Tuesday in the unsolved slaying of a 26-year-old father shot while driving in Compton last year.

Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas recommended offering the reward to help find the killer of Marquise Lawrence, who was headed east on West Johnson Street near Willowbrook Avenue on March 18, 2015, when gunshots were fired from an SUV heading the opposite way.

Lawrence was struck by a bullet and his car crashed into a concrete barrier along the Metro Blue Line train tracks. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

“The shock and senselessness of this tragedy has left his family devastated,” Ridley-Thomas said, calling Lawrence a “hard-working, kind- hearted individual and devoted father” of a then-7-month-old daughter.

The gunman was described as a heavy-set black man in his 20s with a 2-to-3-inch Afro hairstyle. Witnesses said he fled west on Johnson Street in a 1990s-era blue Chevrolet Suburban.

Anymore with information was asked to call sheriff’s homicide Sgt. Guillermo Morales at (323) 890-5500, or Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.

--City News Service, photo via Shutterstock