15-year-old boy killed in East Los Angeles

Nov. 7, 2009 | By Jason Kandel | KPCC

EAST LOS ANGELES - Authorities today were searching for gunmen who shot and killed a 15-year-old boy off Whittier Boulevard last night.

Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said that dozens of high school students may have witnessed the dispute that led to the shooting.

The shooting occurred at about 11:20 p.m. Friday in a residential neighborhood in the 700 block of South McDonnell Street, said sheriff's Lt. Mark Richards of the East Los Angeles station.

Jessy Acosta, 15, of Los Angeles, died near the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Arizona Avenue, according to a Los Angeles County coroner's investigator.

A video crew at the scene reported that dozens of high school-aged kids
were witnesses to the shooting in the residential neighborhood. They were taken
by bus to Garfield High School, about one-half mile away, for questioning.

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