Would-be robber fatally shoots teen in Koreatown, police say
A 17-year-old was shot and killed in Koreatown Tuesday night by a would-be robber, police said.
The teen, identified by family as Dylan Ramirez, was sitting in the passenger seat of a car with another person around 10:30 p.m. on Vermont Avenue near 7th Street when an unknown man approached the vehicle and demanded his property, said a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson.
The driver of the car attempted to drive away, and the gunman fired at the car, striking Ramirez, who died at the scene, police said.
“My little brother Dylan was killed in an Armed Robbery. He was only 17. My family of course were not prepared for such an event,” Alejandro Castro, Ramirez’s sister, wrote on the family’s GoFundMe page.
The killer fled, and no arrests have been made, according to police.
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