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Details on 12 recent homicides and two past cases

The Homicide Report has new details on 12 recent homicides in Los Angeles County. Click on the victim's name for more information.

Alejandro Antonio Flores, 50, who was shot and killed Saturday, June 7, in Exposition Park.

Tynisa Lagail Hicks, 37, who was shot and killed Saturday, June 7, in Westmont.

Clayton Mickel Shuford, 18, who was shot and killed Thursday, June 5, in Westmont. 

Christopher Hernandez, 19, who was shot and killed Thursday, June 5, on the border of East Hollywood and Silver Lake. 

Walter Battle, 24, who was shot and killed Thursday, June 5, in Westmont. 

Justin Scott Verano, 38, who was shot and killed Wednesday, June 4, in Montebello. 

Reginald Dewayne Pitts, 30, who was shot and killed Tuesday, June 3, in Chesterfield Square. 

John Benjamin Alvarado, 35, who was shot and killed Sunday, June 1, in Echo Park. 

Amparo Vazquez, 57, who was found dead Saturday, May 31, in Hawthorne. 

Richard Alan Wurtz, 37, who was shot and killed Friday, May 30. 

John Konelio Tagoai, 29, who was shot and killed Friday, May 30. 

Anthony Isaac Gryskiewicz, 30, who was shot and killed Thursday, May 29. 

Past cases:

A Los Angeles man in September 2013 was sentenced to life in state prison in the 2006 killing of his two stepdaughters in Manchester Square. 

A Hawthorne man in April 2005 was sentenced to seven years in state prison in the 2003 killing of his son-in-law in Hawthorne.

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