Crime & Safety

Detectives Seek Help Finding Suspects in Perris Homicide

Sheriff's detectives found security surveillance video showing the two suspects — and hope someone may recognize them.

PERRIS, CA — Riverside County sheriff's officials Thursday released photographs of two men suspected of gunning down a Perris resident during a robbery in a shopping center parking lot. Anthony Young, 20, was shot to death on the evening of April 8 in the 2000 block of North Perris Boulevard, near Citrus Avenue.

Sheriff's detectives found security surveillance video showing the two suspects before, during and after the deadly attack, and they are seeking the public's help to identify the men.

The pictures can be seen above, and are also available here: http://www.riversidesheriff.or... .

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Both suspects are black and in their 20s. One appears to be of medium height, has short hair and a mustache and is wearing a blue T-shirt, acid wash jeans and blue sneakers.

His cohort is also of medium height, thin and wearing a blue zip-up hooded sweatshirt with white stripes, as well as dark-colored jeans, a black do- rag that covers his head and beige or off-white sneakers.

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According to sheriff's Sgt. Ben Ramirez, the suspects confronted Young in the parking lot and held him up, then shot him once in the upper body.

They fled the location in a silver 1998-2000 four-door Lexus GS300 with tinted windows and a sunroof.

Young was taken to Riverside University Medical Center in Moreno Valley, where he died a short time later.

Anyone with information was asked to call the sheriff's Central Homicide Unit at (951) 955-2777.

— By City News Service / Images via Riverside County Sheriff's Department