SOUTH-CENTRAL : Store Clerk Held in Fatal Shooting of 17-Year-Old
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A liquor store clerk has been booked on suspicion of murder for fatally shooting a 17-year-old boy who allegedly was fleeing a South-Central liquor market with two stolen 12-packs of beer, police said.
Ulises Jaramillo of Culver City was shot about 10:45 Sunday night after he allegedly grabbed the beer from Fred’s Liquor, at 50th Street and Central Avenue, and ran to a waiting car, police Detective Eric Campos said.
Jaramillo, who was unarmed, got into the car and tried to escape, but died several blocks away, he said.
Juan Tejeda, the 42-year-old liquor store clerk, told investigators that he fired his weapon as a warning to the youth, but mistakenly hit him in the back, Campos said.
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