California High School Football Star Gunned Down in Random Gang Attack

FOXNews.com ^ | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 | FoxNews

[metmom]

LOS ANGELES — A high school football star described as "a Houdini on the football field" was shot dead on Sunday in random gang violence and his mother was returning from her second tour of duty in Iraq.

Jamiel Andre Shaw, 17, was shot multiple times on a sidewalk a few yards from his home after he didn't respond when two men pulled up in a car and asked him, "Where you from?" — code for which gang did he belong to, police said. He was not a gang member.

Authorities are calling the shooting a random, unprovoked gang attack.

Shaw, a standout running back at Los Angeles High School and the Southern League's most valuable player last season, was shot about 8:40 p.m. Sunday in the Crenshaw area. He died later at a local hospital.

[Spktyr]

Impossible. Guns are strictly regulated in California. /sarc

[highimpact]

Good kid growing up in a bad neighborhood. I’ve never understood why decent people would choose to live in gangland.

[mewzilla]

This is from Xinhua, so while one is considering the source....

Official: Los Angeles haunted by gang violence

[Retired Greyhound]

sad and sensless. I live in Long Beach. We have a lot of this nonsense.

Perserving the 2nd Amendment is more important than ever now. There have been a rash of shootings lately.

[fishhound]

That S*CKS.

Prayers said.

[wideawake]

Shades of Boyz In The Hood, in which non-gang-affiliated football star Ricky is gunned down.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[edcoil]

Black and Black crime is rampant. Where is the black leadership on these issues.

[rollo tomasi]

‘Boyz N the Hood’ redux.

RIP, prayers for family and friends.

[A_Former_Democrat]

There isn’t any.

To do so would admit conservatives might actually be right about a few things.

[Red6]

If the rehabilitate the gang-bangers and declare all of California a “gun free zone,” maybe their problems will go away.

[bpjam]

This is a racially motivated crime. If the victim weren’t black, the perps would not have assumed he was in a gang and would not have thrown down on him. If he were Asian, he might have just been beaten up.

But because of his race, this young man was killed. Will the DOJ file charges under the “Hate Crimes Act” against the shooters? Or will this just be considered routine since the victim is black even though the shooters are likely serial killers?

[RoadKingSE]

Police said they are seeking the public's help in identifying the suspects, whom officials described only as two Latino men a white compact sedan.

I'd bet a paycheck that the murdering thugs are "undocumented" guests in this country, just doing the drive-bys that Americans won't do.

[metmom]

Yup. I wonder about the safety of the witness. It’s unlikely that he’s any safer not talking than talking. They know he saw them and that’s all it takes.

He needs to move far away.

[Inyo-Mono]

So sad. His mother survives two tours of duty in Iraq and he is gunned down a few yards from his house.

[Old Professer]

“Police said they are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspects, whom officials described only as two Latino men in a white compact sedan. Investigators believe the shooting was not racially motivated. Jamiel was black.”

The hispanic gang movement is systematically shifting the residents of traditional black communities farther out and away from generational neighborhoods; soon it will be all latino.

[Old Professer]

Read the whole article.

[Old Professer]

Ironically, it is mostly the second generation who become gang members with the obvious exception of the traveling gangs from deeper South America.

[backtothestreets]

I’d go further and bet the murderers are in gangs affiliated with either the paramilitary Zetas from Mexico or the paramilitary MS13 from El Salvador. Government estimates place gang membership affiliated with these two paramilitary organization at 200,000 nationwide at present. They are present in every state and have moved from being exclusively in the inner cities to the suburbs.