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 shot outside of an elementary school.