Boy, 15, Is Held in Classmate’s Fatal Shooting
Police have arrested a 15-year-old Gardena boy in the shooting death of his classmate.
Sang Ho Lee, 15, died Tuesday at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a day after his friend pointed a gun at him and squeezed the trigger, said Gardena Police Lt. Ron Panter.
“He thought it was unloaded,” Panter said.
Lee was at his friend’s home in the 17500 block of South Budlong Avenue in Gardena when he was shot in the back of the head at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Panter said. The suspect, whose name was not released because he is a minor, had retrieved a .38-caliber handgun from his father’s locked gun cabinet.
The boy is being held at the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey on suspicion of murder, he said. Both boys were 10th-graders at the Narbonne Math Science Center school for gifted students.
The district attorney’s office has not decided whether charges will be filed in the case.
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