Video footage taken by a witness shows a group of men swarming Bradford. Bradford was just arriving to work when he noticed a group of people arguing outside the store and attempted to intervene. Investigators and witnesses say the shooting happened after a dispute ensued over a raffle that Shoe Palace was holding for a pair of sneakers. Bradford was taken to a local hospital where he later died. When officers arrived they discovered 26-year-old Jayren Bradford suffering from a gunshot wound, ABC 7 News reports. Video footage of the incident and numerous tips from witnesses helped them make an arrest.ĪUGPolice are searching for a gunman who fatally shot a store employee during a dispute Wednesday outside Shoe Palace on Melrose Avenue in the Fairfax district, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Thursday on State Street in South Gate, the Los Angeles Times reports, and was booked on suspicion of murder.ĭetectives say they plan to present a murder case to county prosecutors next week. The juvenile, who was not named because of his age, was taken into custody at around 12:30 p.m. Bradford was transported to a local hospital, where he later died. Then someone in the crowd pulled out a gun and shot Bradford once before fleeing in a sedan, heading north on Genesee Avenue.

When Bradford, 26, arrived, a crowd of people confronted him. According to the Los Angeles Times, an employee called a co-worker, Jayren Bradford, to help handle the situation. The store was holding a raffle at around noon on Wednesday when a fight broke out between a group of men and women, police say.

UPDATE: AUGUST 13 - Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with the fatal shooting of a shoe store employee who tried to break up a fight over a sneaker raffle on Melrose Avenue in the Fairfax district, KTLA reports.

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