Jermaine Malone, a 37-year-old black man, died Sunday, Feb. 22, five days after he was shot in the 1600 block of West 54th Street in Harvard Park, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.
About 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, Malone was standing in front of a home when a gunman walked up to him and opened fire, LAPD Det. Dave Garrido said.
Malone was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 12:28 a.m. Feb. 22, said Ed Winter, assistant chief of investigations for the coroner’s office.
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