Coalition Asks Suspects in Student’s Death to Surrender
A coalition of ministers and the parents of a stellar Paramount High School student shot to death last week by suspected gang members called Saturday for the suspects to surrender to authorities.
Luis and Agnes Clark--parents of Alfred Clark, 17, who was killed Wednesday--met at their home with members of the Ministers Coalition for Peace and some of their son’s teammates to hold a news conference to urge the young men involved in the shooting to turn themselves in.
“We feel that even they might feel sorry about it, so the young men might come forward,” said the Rev. Carl Washington, a spokesman for the coalition, made up primarily of ministers from the South Los Angeles area.
Clark, 17, a star athlete and popular honors student, was fatally shot while eating in a crowded McDonald’s restaurant on Rosecrans Avenue, not far from his school. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies said Clark was shot once in the chest when he refused to surrender a portable CD player to two robbers, who fled in a van and have not been identified.
Washington said that on Monday the ministers coalition will ask the County Board of Supervisors to offer a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunmen.
“If the young men don’t come forward, someone might have enough compassion to say they know who was responsible,” Washington said.
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