LAPD still looking for information about North Hollywood taco stand killing

LA Daily News
Jan 17, 2011

Los Angeles police detectives, with few leads to go on in their search for the killer of a young man gunned down in the parking lot of a North Hollywood taco stand, reminded the public today that there is a $50,000 reward in the case.

Last Oct. 17, about 12:40 a.m., 18-year-old Vartan Avatyan was standing with a group of friends in the parking lot of the eatery in the 7200 block of Lankershim Boulevard when he was targeted by the shooter.

The assailant, described only as a male Hispanic, walked up and fired several rounds at Avatyan, who died at a hospital.

The suspect made his getaway in a compact car.

Anyone with information about the shooting was asked to call homicide detectives at the North Hollywood station at 818-623-4075.