Two men in a dark SUV drove up to 17 year-old Edwin Joseph Cobbin as he was standing outside of his house on the 13300 block of Cordary Avenue in Hawthorne, talking with friends. The men got out of the vehicle and asked Cobbin where he was from, searched his pockets, then shot him three times. The two men then got back into the vehicle and drove away, heading north on Cordary Avenue. Cobbin was taken to a hospital where he died from his injuries.