ARTESIA : 8th-Grade Student Slain While Riding Bicycle
An eighth-grade student on summer vacation was shot and killed Sunday night while riding his bicycle along a busy portion of Norwalk Boulevard near 192nd Street in Artesia.
Robert Camarena, 13, of Cerritos was hit in the upper body about 9 p.m. by shots fired from a passing car, said sheriff’s spokesman Gabe Ramirez. Camarena was taken to Pioneer Hospital, where he died a short time later.
Sheriff’s homicide investigators said there was no known motive for the crime, but that it appeared to be gang-related.
Cerritos school officials said Camarena was enrolled in the district’s independent study program for students with learning disabilities.
A district spokeswoman expressed sadness at the 13-year-old’s death, and said that she did not know whether Camarena had been involved with gangs.
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