Supervisor Antonovich Recommends, County Renews $20,000 Rewards for Information in 2 Local Killings

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has decided to renew two $20,000 reward programs to help authorities arrest gunmen responsible for fatal shootings in Pasadena and Altadena.

Supervisor Michael Antonovich recommended extending the rewards, both of which are due to expire July 3. He hopes the reward programs could help find the suspects in the murders of Robert Calderon in Pasadena and of Christopher Walker in Altadena.

The rewards will now be available for at least 90 days more, according to a City News Service report.

On December 18, 2015, Pasadena police found the body of 27-year-old Robert Calderon as they responded to a “shots fired” report in the 600 block of N. Mentor Avenue in Pasadena. The Altadena resident was pronounced dead at the scene.

The night after Calderon was killed, shots were fired as family and friends gathered at the scene of his murder. One woman was stuck by a bullet, but survived.

On Oct. 30, 2014, Walker, 26, a father to two young daughters, was shot a number of times while he was waiting for his order outside Fair Oaks Burger at 2560 N. Fair Oaks Ave. in Altadena. Witnesses said the suspect drove off from the area in a gray four-door sedan. Walker was pronounced dead at Huntington Memorial Hospital.

Walker’s mother, Ursula Denise Walker, said her son was a Boy Scout, involved in sports and attended a private school, but had joined a neighborhood gang at an early age. Despite family intervention, he became a juvenile offender, Mrs. Walker said, but then turned his life around at 19, found a steady job and was a loving father.

Anyone with information about Walker’s killers is advised to call sheriff’s homicide Sergeants Chaffey Shepherd or Howard Cooper at (323) 890-5500.

Meanwhile, information about the killers of Robert Calderon should be called in to the Pasadena Police Department at (626) 744-3861.

Callers with information about either crime may also stay anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.