An adult male was found dead Saturday morning in the 13000 block of Crossroads Parkway North in the City of Industry, prompting a shooting death investigation by Los Angeles County Sheriff's homicide detectives. The man was pronounced deceased at the scene, and no information about a suspect has been released.
According to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the incident was reported at approximately 7:10 a.m. Investigators with the department's Homicide Bureau are leading the inquiry, and the department says no additional information is currently available. Lieutenant Steven De Jong, who has directed multiple major death and homicide investigations across the county, including cases in Pearlblossom and Lancaster over the past two years, oversees the bureau's investigative teams.
The block where the man died sits inside Crossroads Business Park, a 400-acre master-planned commercial development managed by Majestic Realty Co., whose corporate headquarters is also located on the same street. The corridor is dominated by multi-story office buildings and corporate tenants rather than homes, giving the area an unmistakably commercial character even in the early morning hours.
A Business Corridor With Few Residents but Major Government Operations
The City of Industry is an unusual place for any death investigation to unfold. Census data from 2020 shows the city has just 264 residents spread across 12 square miles, making it the third least populous incorporated city in California even though it hosts more than 3,000 businesses and roughly 67,000 daytime workers. That imbalance means violent crime incidents in Industry almost always affect employees or visitors rather than people living nearby.
The Crossroads Parkway North corridor itself houses some of the region's most sensitive government infrastructure, including Los Angeles County's 144,000-square-foot Ballot Processing Center, run by the county's Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, and the California State Assembly District 56 office. The county approved a 15-year lease in December 2022 to consolidate regional election processing at that site, meaning the shooting death investigation unfolded just blocks from heavy daytime worker traffic tied to county administrative operations.
Why Industry Relies on Contract Policing
The City of Industry was incorporated on June 18, 1957, under a model built around more than 90 percent industrial zoning, a structure designed specifically to prevent residential annexation and to foster manufacturing and logistics development, as detailed by LAist. That history explains why the city lacks traditional neighborhood infrastructure and instead contracts out its law enforcement.
Frontline policing in Industry is handled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Industry Station, which operates out of Hudson Avenue and patrols 65 square miles covering Industry, La Puente, La Habra Heights, and several unincorporated communities serving a combined population exceeding 243,000 people. Once a death is classified as suspicious, jurisdiction shifts to the department's Homicide Bureau, which handles all such investigations across LASD patrol territory.
Past Violence Along the Same Business Park Block
Saturday's death is not the first violent incident tied to this stretch of road. In October 2015, sheriff's deputies exchanged gunfire with an armed suspect in the 13300 block of Crossroads Parkway North, an encounter that ended in an arrest, according to the Los Angeles Times. More recently, in May 2024, a road-rage dispute that began on the westbound 60 Freeway near Crossroads Parkway escalated into a shooting, leaving one driver wounded before the vehicles involved exited near Beverly Boulevard, as Hoodline reported at the time.
Following spikes in violent crime across the East San Gabriel Valley in early 2021, Industry Station coordinated with county supervisors and business leaders to launch task forces aimed at curbing property and gang-related crime in commercial corridors like this one. It remains unclear whether Saturday's death is connected to any broader pattern in the area, and the Sheriff's Department has not indicated a motive or identified a suspect.
Tips Sought as Investigation Continues
Investigators are asking anyone with information to come forward. Tipsters can reach the Homicide Bureau directly at (323) 890-5500, or submit information anonymously through Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS (8477), through the P3 Tips mobile app, or by texting their zip code to 888777 to receive Nixle alerts. The Sheriff's Department, led by Sheriff Robert G. Luna and headquartered at 211 West Temple Street in Los Angeles, said it has no additional details to release at this time.
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