Family calls for investigation after Raejonette Morgan found shot to death in bullet-riddled car at South LA intersection

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Activists and a woman’s family called for an investigation after she was found shot to death in a bullet-riddled Mercedes-Benz at a busy intersection in South Los Angeles.

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the shooting was reported at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday on Vermont Avenue near the Freeway 105 overpass.

When officers arrived at the scene, they found a woman in the driver’s seat who had been shot multiple times, a sheriff’s spokesman told ABC7. Her family later identified her as 22-year-old Raejonette Morgan.

Several bullet holes were visible on the driver’s door and windows of the sedan. After the shooting, the vehicle drove onto a sidewalk and came to a stop near a highway ramp. Several spectators gathered.

A witness at the scene started a livestream on Facebook that showed footage of several officers removing the injured Morgan from the car and laying her on the ground.

In the video, a deputy wearing blue plastic gloves can be seen examining Morgan, apparently to determine where she was shot. About three minutes later, Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics arrive.

Morgan was taken to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where she died of her injuries on Thursday.

In a statement released Thursday on behalf of Morgan’s family and civil rights attorney Ben Crump, activist Najee Ali called for “a full investigation into the woman’s death by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department” and claimed that a deputy “sat in his patrol car and rendered no assistance to the shooting victim.”

“This deputy’s inaction, captured on video, is reminiscent of the deputy at the Uvalde, Texas school massacre who stood by as children were shot and refused to help schoolchildren begging for help as they died,” Ali’s statement said.

The Sheriff’s Department did not immediately respond to ABC7’s request for comment.

“We also demand a meeting with Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Luna, who has long been known for his strength of character and integrity,” Ali said in the statement. “What his deputy did when he refused to help a shooting victim was captured on cell phone video by a Good Samaritan and was shocking, reprehensible and inexcusable.”

No one has been arrested in connection with the shooting and no description of a suspect has been released.

Ali said Morgan was “allegedly shot by gang members, her family says it was a case of mistaken identity.”

Ali, Crump and members of Morgan’s family are expected to hold a press conference Thursday morning.