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Football: Hearing for Lakewood’s Stone on Thursday

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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A hearing to set the date to determine whether former Lakewood tailback Jerry Stone will be tried as an adult on attempted murder charges is scheduled for Thursday in Compton Juvenile Court.

Stone, 17, faces two counts of attempted murder in connection with an alleged drive-by shooting last month in Compton in which no one was injured. He is being held in Juvenile Hall and faces two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of permitting another to shoot from a vehicle, one count of permitting a loaded firearm in a vehicle, one count of residential first-degree burglary and one count of hit-and-run.

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Lakewood, which is off to a 3-1 start without Stone, plays Compton at home Friday.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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