Cypress police still searching for gunman who shot another man after Forest Lawn burial
A shooting immediately after a burial service at Forest Law Memorial Park in Cypress on Friday scattered attendees and left a man with multiple gunshot wounds.
At around 3:30 p.m., police said around two dozen people were just heading back to their cars from the service at the cemetery at 4471 Lincoln Avenue ending when two men got into an argument.
The fight escalated and one of the men pulled out a gun, then fired. The victim was hit multiple times in his torso, said Sgt. John Faessel of the Cypress Police Department.
Within minutes, dozens of attendees fled the area. When police arrived, they found no one at the burial site, Faessel said. But some officers were redirected to the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Moody Street. They found the injured man there.
Despite being shot multiple times, the man did not have any life-threatening injuries, Faessel said.
Detectives believe the shooting was the result of a personal conflict between the two men.
“From what we understand, the people involved all know each other,” Faessel said. “There wasn’t some unknown person who showed up.”
While the suspect was known to the people at the funeral, police haven’t identified him or released a description. It’s not clear whether witnesses to the shooting have helped in the investigation.
“This isn’t completely out of the ordinary,” Faessel said of the shooting.
He noted detectives were looking into the possibility of an inter-family conflict that led to the violence.
“You can imagine a scenario were there’s family issues at play, or you can image a scenario where people who may want to pay their respects to the deceased family member aren’t necessarily there to pay their respect to other family members,” he said.
Police were still looking for the suspect. They asked anyone with information about the shooting to call the Cypress Police Department Criminal Investigation Bureau at (714) 229-6631, or Orange County Crime Stoppers at 1-855-TIP-OCCS.