INGLEWOOD : $25,000 Reward for Arrest in Gang Slayings

The Inglewood City Council has posted a $25,000 reward for the killers responsible for two nights of unprecedented gang violence last week.

Eleven people were gunned down and five of them, including a 2-year-old girl and a 14-year-old cheerleader, were killed.

The council made the $25,000 reward payable for an arrest, not necessarily a conviction.

“As we’ve seen with even the Menendez case, a conviction isn’t guaranteed even when the people confess to doing it,” said Councilman Garland Hardeman, referring to hung juries in the trials of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who killed their parents.

Meanwhile, Inglewood police announced that a 16-year-old Los Angeles youth was arrested Monday and was expected to be charged with murder in the death of the cheerleader, Tila Lashay French. Police said they withheld announcing the arrest until Wednesday to avoid tipping off other suspects who are still wanted in the case.

In last week’s rampage, all the dead and four of the wounded were hit in what police believe were gang-related shootings.

The first to be killed was Kyiara Nicole Morrow-Jackson, 2, who was shot while her mother, Gina Morrow, 23, was standing in front of their home on West 78th Street, talking to a male friend shortly before 7 p.m. Jan. 26. Three men drove up and, according to police, might have thought Morrow’s friend was a rival gang member. They got out of the car and opened fire with 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistols, wounding Morrow in the thigh and hitting her daughter in the chest. The young girl died later at a local hospital.

French was the second victim. She was shot about 7:30 p.m. while she stood with a group of friends in the 800 block of North Eucalyptus Avenue.

The next victims were three 21-year-old men sitting in a parked car on North Market Street shortly before 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Two or three men armed with assault rifles got out of a dark-colored small car and riddled the men’s car with dozens of bullets. Garland E. Money, Sean Omar Williams and Kenneth Darryl Cannon were killed.