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-- Megan Garvey and Anthony Pesce
October 27, 2009 | 6:22
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Waymon Weston, a 20-year-old black man, was shot and killed on Monday, Oct. 19, in the 1100 block of West 90th Street in Athens, according to Los Angeles County coroner's officials.
Weston was standing outside an apartment about 10 p.m. when someone approached and shot him, said Ed Winter, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
Weston was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:07 p.m., Winter said.
—Anthony Pesce
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Map: The location where Waymon Weston was shot.
Credit: Google Maps
THIS WAS,JUST NOT SOME BLACK MAN THIS WAS SOMEONE SON,BOTHER,NEPHEW,COUSIN,AND FRIEND.BUT YOU WHO EVER YOU ARE HAVE TAKEN THAT AWAY FROM HIS FAMILY. YOU SIT BACK AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE YOU HAVE TORN OUR WORLD IN TWO. WHAT WAS IT THAT WAS SO BAD THAT YOU DID THIS TO MY NEPHEW,MY GOD ANOTHER BLACKMAN TAKEN ANOTHER BOTHER'S LIFE,IT'S SICKEN, FOR WHAT ,DO YOU FEEL LIKE A MAN NOW DO YOU FEEL WHOLE, MY QUESTION TO U IS HOW WOULD YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER,AN FAMILY FEEL IF SOMEONE KILLED THEIR BABY THINK ABOUT IT WELL THAT'S HOW HIS MOTHER,AN FATHER FEELS NOW. WE AS BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO STICK TOGETHER WERE ALL WE HAVE WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH KILLING CENTRIES AGO WITH THE WHITEMAN KILLING US LIKE WE WERE DOG'S IN THE STREET,TAKEN US OUT LIKE WE DIDN'T HAVE A REASON TO BE ON THE EARTH.NOW LOOK WERE DOING IT TO OUR OWN KIND,JUST WHAT DO U THINK THE WHITEMAN IS SAYING ABOUT US LOOK AT THOSE FOOL'S KILLING THEIR OWN. I HOPE AND PRAY THAT YOUR FAMILY DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH WHAT MY FAMILY IS GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW. HOW DO U SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING WHAT YOU DID THAT'S MY QUESTION,HOW CAN YOU HOLD YOUR HEAD UP HIGH KNOWING THAT MY NEPHEW DIED AT YOUR HANDS LIKE HE WAS NOBODY HOPE THAT YOUR DAY COMES "OH, TRUST AND KNOW THAT GOD'S GONE HANDLE YOU".
Posted by: LOST FOR WORD'S | October 28, 2009 at 01:24 AM
LOST FOR WORD'S,
My condolence and prayers go out to you and your family. It's this generation of kids, with no respect for life, that will just kill for no reason at all. Most of the killings we read about the victims aren't all gang-bangers or even associated with them. We laughed so many years at the drug addicts, that we seen riding down the street with refrigerators, and other house hold appliances trying sale them for crack, and other drugs, and then watched the drug addict women get pregnant and still doing drugs. Well, a lot of the kids doing the killings and other crazy crimes we see are the result of those drug addicts we saw back in the day. Now those kids are growing up and inflicting the hurt and pain to our society. That's why we have to make a change and start turning these thugs in, you can anonymously call WE-Tip @ 800-78-CRIME (27463) or 800 47-DRUGS (37847) and turning these thugs aka neighborhood terrorist in if you see them selling drugs in your community which is a bad crime too, and anything else we see them do that we know is against the law. We can start taking them off our streets, and out of our neighborhoods one by one, group by group, then could we hopfuly get back to the days when kids could be kids, and play outside, walk to the park and play, and just have fun being a kid, Do you remember those days?, I sure do...
Posted by: Just Say'n | October 29, 2009 at 10:31 AM
The person who did this suffers from a lack of intelligence to just sit there and take someones life away is just wrong.And for that person to be waymon someone who will give you the shirt off his back someone who would do anything for anyone someone with a heart of pure gold.To the person who did this how would you feel if someone took the person you love away?I pray for you that god deals with you in his way & his time.Trust and believe it will come back on you.My love & prayers goes out to Waymon's Famiily.
Posted by: Yae | December 28, 2009 at 03:53 PM
i live on 90th.he was so close to k-dee.i use to see him roll down the street with his beanie on just doing what he does.i saw him hanging out like an hour he was shot.always had a smile on his face.never looked for trouble.just a chill back guy.i talk to him a few times and its a trip now how now i walk outside i will never see him again.
Posted by: someguy | January 19, 2010 at 10:06 AM