$100,000 Reward Offered for Killer who Dumped 2 Young Women near LA Freeways

LOS ANGELES, CA -- LAPD Detectives and the families of two young women murdered and dumped in the Silver Lake and East LA areas are hoping that a $100,000 reward will help bring their killer to justice.

Police sought the public's help Wednesday in solving the murders of a Los Angeles teenager and a young mother of two whose bodies were found alongside two Los Angeles freeways a few years ago.

The Los Angeles City Council, at the request of First District Councilmember Gil Cedillo, approved $100,000 in rewards, $50,000 for each murder, for information leading to the identity, arrest, and prosecution of the person or people responsible for the deaths of Michelle Lozano and Bree'Anna Guzman.

Lozano, who was a 17-year-old Lincoln Heights resident at the time of her murder, was last seen on April 24, 2011, and her body was found the next day alongside the Cesar Chavez Avenue offramp from the southbound Golden State (5) Freeway in East Los Angeles, according to a Los Angeles Police Department statement.

On December 26 of that same year, 22-year-old Guzman disappeared after walking to a Rite-Aid store at 111 E. Avenue 26, the statement said. Her body was found on Jan. 26, 2012, alongside the Riverside Drive on-ramp to the southbound Glendale (2) Freeway.

Three years ago, a friend of the family told Patch, "Bree'Anna's mother, Darlene Guzman Duran, is left without answers and is in search of justice. Bree'Anna left behind 2 young daughters."

During the course of the investigations, detectives obtained evidence that links the two murders, the statement said.

Anyone with information about the murders was asked to contact the LAPD's Robbery and Homicide Division at (213) 486-6890.

City News Service