Shaylaah Rochelle Brown, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot and killed Sunday, June 14, near Dwight Avenue and Compton Boulevard in Compton, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.
Brown was waiting at a red light at an intersection about 11:15 p.m. when a person riding a "homemade-style minibike" pulled alongside her car and began shooting, a Los Angeles County sheriff's detective wrote in an application for a search warrant.
The warrant, written by Det. Arthur Garcia, was filed in a Compton courthouse in late August.
Brown, the driver, was shot in the head. A man sitting in the front passenger seat suffered a graze wound to the head, and a girl sitting in the backseat — identified by Brown's cousin as her 2-year-old daughter — was unharmed, according to the warrant.
Brown was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:25 p.m., according to coroner's records.
The assailant, who was …
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