$25K Reward Offered In Slaying Of Graffiti Witness

POSTED: 2:21 pm PST January 8, 2008
UPDATED: 2:39 pm PST January 8, 2008


The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors reauthorized a $25,000 reward Tuesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killers of a Valinda man who found them spray-painting graffiti on a neighbor's wall.

On March 9, 2006, 44-year-old Robert Whitehead confronted two men in the 13400 block of Moccasin Street in an unincorporated area near Industry about the graffiti. A third man approached Whitehead from behind and fired several shots, striking him in the upper body, according to the Sheriff's Department. The three men fled in two vehicles.

Detectives believe the third man who fired the shots was wearing dark shorts, knee-high white socks and a dark sweatshirt with a hood covering his head.

Two vehicles were seen leaving eastbound on Moccasin Street toward Puente Avenue. The vehicles were described as a dark four-door sedan with tinted windows and a light-colored domestic pickup truck.

The Board of Supervisors offered a $25,000 reward in late 2006, but the killers remain at large.