Yessenia Macias, 20

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Yessenia Macias, 20, a Latina woman, received a single gunshot wound to the head in the parking lot of the Townhome Motel at 3204 W. Main St. in Alhambra and died at 10:50 p.m. Sunday, July 1.

Investigators described the gunshot as coming out of nowhere. They said the woman and the Latino man she was with had just pulled their car into the motel parking lot. He got out, and as he did so heard a gunshot. He looked at Macias and saw that she was hit. He took her to Los Angeles Community Hospital, and from there she was transferred to County-USC Medical Center, where she died.