Local News in Brief : Boy, Shot 2nd Time, Dies
Just two days after he was released from a hospital for wounds suffered in a gang-related drive-by shooting, a South Los Angeles teen-ager was shot again--and killed.
Dannon Santos, 15, died at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood after being shot in the back Thursday evening while walking with friends across a vacant lot at the corner of 121st Street and Avalon Boulevard.
Sheriff’s deputies said another teen-ager rode by on a bicycle and shouted a gang name at Dannon, who ran but tripped and fell in the street. The attacker then pulled a revolver from his pants pocket, firing several shots, one of which hit him in the back. The gunman fled on his bicycle.
Deputies said they had no evidence that Dannon was a gang member.
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