INGLEWOOD : Reward Offered in Slayings on Two Nights of Violence

A reward totaling $25,000 was announced this week for information leading to arrests and convictions in shootings that left five people dead in Inglewood during two nights of violence last month.

The Inglewood City Council authorized the payment for information in the attacks that killed two people Jan. 26 and three more the next night, Inglewood spokesman Truman Jacques said. Police described the violent nights as two of the worst in the city’s history.

On Jan. 31, police arrested a 16-year-old boy in the shooting death of 14-year-old Tila French, who was killed about 7:30 on the first night. She was standing with friends in front of an apartment building in the 800 block of North Eucalyptus Avenue when the shooting started. Two other teen-agers were wounded in the attack. The suspect, whose name was withheld, was charged with one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder. About half an hour before French was killed, 2-year-old Kyiara Morrow-Jackson was killed and her mother was wounded by shots fired in front of their house in the 2500 block of West 78th Street. Three other people were wounded in separate attacks that night.

The next night, three Inglewood men were gunned down as they sat in a car in the 700 block of North Market Street. Garland Money, 21, and Kenneth Cannon, 24, died at the scene. Sean Williams, 17, died at a hospital.