LOCAL : Memorial Service Set for Slain Boy
A memorial service will be conducted Tuesday for Jason Matthew Lea, the 9-year-old Upland boy whose body was found 10 days ago at the bottom of a ravine in the San Gabriel Mountains, officials announced at a press conference this morning in Orange.
The boy disappeared July 29 after leaving his home on his bicycle. His decomposed body was discovered Aug. 4 in a ravine below Glendora Ridge Road, two miles west of the San Bernardino County line in Los Angeles County.
Four teen-agers had been held in the death, but officials with the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said there was insufficient evidence to charge them with a crime. Three were released last week, and the fourth was being held on an unrelated probation violation.
A Los Angeles County coroner’s spokesman said the cause of death probably would not be determined until the middle of this week.
The service will begin at 10 a.m. at the 11th Street Baptist Church in Upland. Parents at Baldy View Elementary School, which Jason attended, have set up a trust fund in his name.
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