Reward Offered in College Student’s Slaying

The Los Angeles City Council is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the slaying of a college student shot in Boyle Heights Nov. 22, Councilman Richard Alatorre said Tuesday.

Eduardo Quezada, 20, was gunned down on Pleasant Avenue as he got out of his car at about 2 a.m. to visit his girlfriend.

“I want the person who did this to my son to pay,” said his mother Maria Quezada.

“My son wasn’t doing anything wrong. He was just trying to get ahead in life.”

Quezada, who was studying politics at East Los Angeles College, was not involved in a gang, officials said.

Police said they suspect that he was mistakenly shot in retaliation for a gang-related murder on the same street a month earlier.

Detectives said they have no leads in Quezada’s killing and pleaded for assistance from the community.

“I know there is fear and intimidation, but we have to apprehend these cowards,” Alatorre said.

“We have to tell people they can’t just take a life and get away with it.”

Information can be reported confidentially to the Hollenbeck Division Homicide Detectives at (213) 526-3002.