LOS ANGELES : $50,000 Offered to Find Honor Student’s Killers
The Board of Supervisors, after listening to the anguished parents of a slain Paramount High School honor student, on Tuesday approved a $50,000 reward for the capture of the young man’s killers.
Alfred Clark was shot once in the chest by two robbers at a McDonald’s restaurant last Wednesday, the day before he was to graduate. Alfred, 17, was having lunch when he refused to hand over a portable CD player to suspected gang members, who fled in a van. At first, the supervisors were going to offer only a $15,000 reward.
Agnes and Luis Silvestre were disappointed when Supervisor Deane Dana introduced a motion offering the $15,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killers. “I feel that $15,000 for the life of my son . . . is not even a trickle in the bucket,” said Luis Silvestre, the boy’s stepfather, who raised Alfred most of the youth’s life.
After several minutes of legal maneuvering, the supervisors adopted an emergency resolution offering the higher amount.
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