A reward has been issued for information in the 2018 shooting death of a now-retired NBA star's father.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced Wednesday that a $20,000 reward is being offered in exchange for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the killing of Richard Jefferson Sr., 66, who was shot and killed in Compton, Calif., on Sept. 19, 2018.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors reauthorized the reward at its Feb. 7 meeting. The reward was originally offered in 2020, and has been renewed repeatedly before expiring in October last year.

According to the county, Jefferson Sr. was standing on a sidewalk when gunshots were fired at him and a group of other men. Police believe that the alleged shooters were members of a gang from another area who shot into a crowd believing that Jefferson and other bystanders were gang-affiliated. Neither Jefferson nor the other men on the sidewalk have been involved with gangs, a department spokesperson said.

When deputies responded to the shooting, they found Jefferson Sr. laying on the ground with gushot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he died of his injuries.

“Here we are again, another family coming to the community asking for their help to resolve this senseless murder,” Kenneth Jefferson, Jefferson’s brother, said in a press conference on Wednesday. “Richard was a brother, he was a son, he was a father, a grandfather who was very much loved and it is our hope that with the money that’s being offered for information leading to the arrest of the person we can solve this.”

Jefferson is the father of retired NBA star Richard Jefferson, who played professional basketball from 2001 to 2018, first for the New Jersey Nets, before spanning the league with stops in Milwaukee, San Antonio, Dallas and Denver. He was a member of the NBA Champion 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers, and a 2004 Olympic bronze medalist. Jefferson is now an analyst and broadcaster with ESPN and the now-Brooklyn Nets. 

In 2018, ESPN reported that Jefferson’s parents separated when he was young, and he grew up in Arizona with his mother. Jefferson Sr. remained in California. The father and son reportedly grew closer in the years before Jefferson Sr.’s death.