Sheriffs Asking for Public Help in Year Old Murder Case
February 18, 2016
Sheriff’s detectives are asking for public help to find whoever carried out the fatal vehicle-to-vehicle shooting of a 26-year-old man in Compton last year. A gunman in an SUV fired shots into a vehicle driven by Marquise Lawrence, who was headed east on Johnson Street approaching Willowbrook Avenue, at around 5 p.m. on March 18, 2015, said Deputy Lillian Peck of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau said. The rounds struck Lawrence and his vehicle careened into a concrete barrier. He was pronounced dead at a hospital, Peck said. The suspect was a black man, 20-25 years old, heavy-set, with an Afro