Compton: Man, 24, is shot in the back

William Stanford Workman III, a 24-year-old black man, died after being shot in the back at Elm Street and Poinsettia Avenue at 10:21 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30.

No further details were available from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

—Amanda Covarrubias

Comments

[David Bennett]

This young man stayed across the street from me and my family. He was very ruly and kept to himself in the neighborhood. You hardly knew he was there. It is very unnerving that a person who keeps to himself is also cut down. The family of William will remain in our prayers for strength and peace. God bless you.

[Darrick Jones]

This is real heartache 4 me n my family.Specially me his older cousin,Will was like a little brother 2 me,n 2 lose his do 2 some BS he wasn't even apart of really hurts me inside.I moved from California 6 months before my little cousin was killed by some stupid little punks,i thought i would never get a phone call from my mother telling me my little cousin was killed. I truly haven't been the same since that day of the phone call i got.It's almost been a year and it's still hard for me to deal with this,it's been so hard for me to deal with the lost of my cousin i still haven't talked to my aunts or my cousins (his sisters) about what has happen.I wish i could turn time back and give my aunt her son back and my cousins their brother back,but we all know i can't do that.I hope that maybe one day the police will do their job and find the killers that did this to a man that had lot of dreams and goals in his life that he wanted to achieve.My little cousin will never have the chance to have a family of his own,or watch his little nieces and newphews grow up.This is a message to my little cousin Will I LOVE YOU AND I WILL MISS U DARELY ur cousin Darrick