On Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, The Times launched a new version of the Homicide Report. You have arrived at the old blog.
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-- Megan Garvey and Anthony Pesce
September 8, 2009 | 10:23
pm
Jerome Downs, a 21-year-old black man, died Sunday Sept. 6 after he was shot at 4th Street and Boylston Street in Westlake, authorities said.
Downs and another man were sitting in a vehicle when someone walked up to their car and shot them both in the torso, said Officer Sara Faden of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Both men were taken to a hospital – the other man, who was not identified, survived his injuries.
-- Ari B. Bloomekatz and Anthony Pesce
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Map: The location of Jerome Downs' shooting. Click for Westlake's Mapping L.A. page, which compiles demographic information about the neighborhood.
