LA Supervisors offer $10,000 reward for information on killing of Irvine man in Malibu Creek State Park

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors offered a $10,000 reward Tuesday in hopes of tracking down the killer of an Irvine father shot to death while camping with his young children in Malibu.

Supervisor Sheila Kuehl recommended offering a reward in the killing of 35-year-old Tristan Thomas Beaudette, who was shot in the head June 22 while camping with his two 2- and 4-year-old daughters in Malibu Creek State Park in Calabasas. Malibu has offered an additional $5,000, for a total of $15,000 in reward money.

Beaudette, a scientist who worked in the pharmaceuticals industry, was inside a tent when the deadly shot was fired. His wife was studying for an exam and didn’t make the trip.

Homicide detectives said the motive for the shooting of Beaudette wasn’t known, but a spate of shootings occurred in the area in 2016 and 2017, including a man hit by birdshot from a shotgun while sleeping and two cars hit by gunfire.

The campground has remained closed since Beaudette’s death, and patrols have been stepped up in recent weeks.

No witnesses to Beaudette’s shooting have come forward, though detectives believe that someone in the area may have seen or heard something that could help with the investigation. Kuehl asked anyone with information to call sheriff’s Detectives Richard Tomlin or Daniel Morris at (323) 890-5500.