Eron Mull, 18

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Eron Mull, an 18-year-old young black man, was shot to death Saturday, Jan. 12, in West Los Angeles outside a nightclub called Level Ten near La Cienega Boulevard and Rosewood Avenue. A fight in the nightclub spilled into the parking lot of nearby Norm’s restaurant, and a radio call went out to officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division, said Officer Norma Eisenman of LAPD’s media relations office. Arriving at the scene about 11:15 p.m., officers heard gunfire from the alley, where they discovered Mull with a gunshot wound to the neck. He was declared dead at the scene. Eight people who tried to flee from the area were detained for questioning. One suspect is at large.

According to family members, Eron Mull was a Los Angeles City College student bound for Prairie View A&M University, where he planned to study electrical engineering. He had played the drums since early childhood and taught other music students in a summer band camp, and participated in a police-clergy council at LAPD’s Newton Division. His mother said he was never in the nightclub; he was at a nearby restaurant. He was trying to draw other people away from the fight when he was killed.

Update: There has been an arrest in this case.