Jorge Casillas, 28

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Jorge Casillas, a 28-year-old Latino man, was shot in the back with a shotgun in the block of 3500 E. Siskiyou Street near the Boyle Heights area at about 10 p.m. Friday, March 7. Casillas had just arrived home and had exited his vehicle when several Latino men approached him and shot him, said Det. Scott Smith from LAPD’s Rampart Division. Casillas was transported to County-USC Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:31 a.m. the next day. Anyone with information about the incident can call (323) 526-3000.