Yucaipa Man Murdered Near Bank ATM, Police Seek Killers

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — Two weeks after a Yuciapa man was killed outside a bank ATM in Riverside, police are asking for the public's help in tracking down his alleged assailant. Daniel Dean of Yucaipa was gunned down in the predawn hours of Sept. 1 in front of the Chase bank branch at 10355 Magnolia Ave., near Tyler Street, according to police.

"Daniel Dean was newly engaged and leaves behind a 2-year-old daughter," police said of the victim. Dean was just 27 years old.

On Thursday, the Riverside Police Department released a sketch of one of two men wanted for the deadly shooting. The image can be viewed above.

Two assailants were involved in the attack, and investigators were able to develop the sketch of one of them, who was described as a thin black man in his early 20s, between 5-foot-9 and 6 feet tall, with short hair. A description of the other man was unavailable.

Dean drove to the location in a four-door sedan, and while preparing to transact business at an ATM, was approached by the two men -- one of whom pulled a handgun and shot him while he was still sitting in his locked car, Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback said.

The shooter and his accomplice fled across the north parking lot of the Galleria at Tyler mall, vanishing into the night before patrol officers converged on the bank moments later, according to Railsback.

"When paramedics arrived, they found (Dean's car) still running and backed up against a tree," he said. "Officers broke a rear window to gain access to the victim, who suffered gunshot wounds to his upper body."

Anyone with information was asked to contact the police department's homicide unit at (951) 353-7137.

— Image courtesy of Riverside Police Department / City News Service contributed to this report