Close to Homicide

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South-Central: These five girls were clustered at the fence at John Muir Middle School on Monday, peering at the shrine left on the sidewalk outside for Wilbert Jones, below, who had been killed within a few yards of the school grounds. It was at least the second homicide that has occurred just outside a public school in South Los Angeles this April. All the girls understood what the shrine was for. One said the victim was a friend of an acquaintance; a second said she knew someone who had been shot and killed recently; a third recounted the robbery killing in her neighborhood of Jorge Ramirez on Feb. 22, telling this reporter somewhat more detail than police had provided. Said a fourth: ‘It’s the boys, isn’t it? It always happens to the boys.’