LOS ANGELES : $25,000 Reward Offered in Cheerleader’s Killing

The Los Angeles City Council on Thursday offered a $25,000 reward in hopes of solving the killing of a Dorsey High School cheerleader gunned down “execution-style” last weekend.

The body of Anitra Jolie Watson, 17, was found at 9 a.m. Saturday in a duplex near Haas Avenue and Century Boulevard, said Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Rigo Romero. “She had sustained multiple gunshot wounds in what appears to be an execution-style killing,” Romero said.

Known to friends as “Jolie,” the girl was last seen about 9 p.m. Friday with two friends in the parking lot of Jackie Robinson Stadium, adjacent to the Dorsey campus at 3537 Farmdale Ave.

She then drove off in her Nissan Pulsar, following a dark-color, early 1980s Buick Regal or Chevrolet Monte Carlo that was occupied by three African American men in their 20s, police said.

Detectives have circulated composite drawings of three men whom they want to question in connection with the case: “Antoine,” a friend of the girl’s known to frequent the duplex where her body was found; a man known as “Truck Driver,” also known by the fictitious name “Sam Davis,” who lived at the duplex where her body was found, and an unidentified man believed to have been an occupant of the car that she had been following.