Candlelight vigil planned for victim of fatal shooting

Update: The vigil has been moved to Harveston Lake in Temecula. The address is 29005 Lakehouse Drive.

A candlelight vigil will be held tonight at 7 in memory of 18-year-old Devaughn Perkins, who has been identified as the victim in a deadly shooting at a party in Menifee Friday night.

Family members confirmed to KTLA and KCBS news stations that Perkins, a Menifee resident, was the shooting victim. He died at the scene of a party near the intersection of Michener Drive and Cleary Street about midnight, according to authorities. No arrests have been made and police are asking for the public's help in identifying the shooter.

The vigil will be held at 29005 Lakehouse Drive in Temecula, at Harveston Lake. Tributes to Perkins were pouring in on social media after the shooting.

"If you had any good memories with my bro Devaughn Perkins, then come to his candlelight tonight at the view. Bring a white rose and a candle in remembrance of him. Leave the BS at home. This is a time of mourning and grief," wrote one person on Perkins' Twitter page.

"You’re not going to look him up and see he has a rap sheet," Perkins' mother, Ernestine Anderson, told KTLA. "People are not going to have a bunch of negative things to say about him. They just took someone great before their time."

According to a report in the Riverside Press-Enterprise, Perkins attended Murrieta Mesa High School, where he was an honor student, before graduating a year early. He was attending Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Anyone with information about the shooting and/or the suspect is asked to call Detective Stoyer with the Central Homicide Unit at 951-955-2777 or Detective Salisbury with the Menifee Police Department at 951-210-1000.

Photo of Devaughn Perkins courtesy of KTLA via Ernestine Anderson.