Boy, 16, Shot to Death in Neighborhood Dispute
A 16-year-old boy was fatally wounded, apparently by a stray bullet, when a gunman fired at a group of people in a neighborhood dispute in Southwest Los Angeles, police said Tuesday.
Melvin Gareth Arnold was shot as he stood near the apartment he shared with his parents in the 1600 block of West 23rd Street, said South Bureau Homicide Detective Erin Browne. Paramedics took the teen-ager to California Medical Center, where he died half an hour after Monday’s 8:30 p.m. shooting, Browne said.
The cause of the dispute wasn’t known, but the shooting was apparently not gang-related, the detective said. No arrests were made, and the description of the gunman was sketchy, Browne said.
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