Thursday, March 13, 2008

H.S. FOOTBALL STAR LAID TO REST IN Los Angeles

This is in OUR backyard TYC.  Seventeen year old Jamiel Shaw was KILLED SUNDAY, MARCH 2, just a few doors from his home, close enough for his father, Jamiel Sr., to hear the gunfire. He ran outside and found his mortally wounded son in a pool of blood.

On the same day of Jamiel’s funeral on Tuesday, authorities announced that the alleged gunman, Pedro Espinoza, 19, had been formally CHARGED WITH SHAW’S DEATH.

Several Los Angeles neighborhoods have experienced gang violence in recent weeks. Eight people - five of them children - were wounded when a MAN FIRED INTO A CROWD near a bus stop; a 6-YEAR-OLD BOY WAS SHOT in the head and critically wounded while riding in a car with his family; and an 18-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS SHOToutside of an elementary school.


Jamiel Shaw Sr. said more must be done to combat gang violence:

“It’s a gang problem and they have nothing in their heart for people.”

His mother, Army Sgt. Anita Shaw, who was serving her second tour in Iraq when her son was killed, compared the gang members who killed him to those she’s fighting against in Iraq: “To me, they’re terrorists.”

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