Local News in Brief : Boy Charged in Shooting
A 16-year-old admitted gang member was charged Friday with shooting a .22-caliber pistol at two school buses Feb. 2 on Rosecrans Avenue in Los Angeles County territory near Compton.
A spokesman for the district attorney’s office said the boy is accused of firing two shots into one bus and one shot into another after students on the buses exchanged shouted gang slogans and hand signs with the arrested youth and some other boys standing on the street. No one was injured.
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