Dispatch: 'Lord knows I wish that I could just hold him one more time, and I can’t.'

Lakeisha Hamm has not slept in days. Each time she lies down, the killing of her 13-year old son last week in Compton replays in her mind like a movie.

She hears gunshots, rushes to the front door and sees a body drop to the ground. She knows her son is outside. She sprints toward the victim. Terror washes over her as she recognizes his shoes.

Hamm buried her son, Marvin Nicholson, today. She cried as she entered the small Inglewood chapel, filled to overflowing with more than 150 friends and family.

Marvin, a black youth, was the second person killed in a short stretch of Grandee Avenue this year, and one of 32 homicides in Compton in 2009. The city’s tally — although already higher than for all of last year — remains near record lows for an area that has ranked among the nation’s most violent for decades.

Marvin, a promising football player who was big for his age, was shot to death just after 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 12. He’d left the house shortly after noon to buy juice at the Compton airport’s store, said Hamm, who is five months pregnant with her sixth child.

Ann Bowlers, principal of the Tri-C Community Day School where Marvin was enrolled, said she had sent him home earlier that morning because of disciplinary problems. Bowlers said a counselor from the Children’s Institute, a local nonprofit that counsels at-risk youth, had taken Marvin to school that day to meet with her, then drove him home after he caused a disruption.

Hamm, 34, said that when Marvin got home, he was worried about his future, wondering if he would be expelled. She said he was already on juvenile probation — which she said was for stealing candy — and knew that trouble at school could cause him more legal problems.

Probation officials and his public defender said they could not discuss his history because juvenile cases are confidential.

The last thing her son said to her was that he might have to switch schools. Hamm was sitting in her apartment having her hair braided when she heard gunshots.

“I saw the guy from afar standing over him shooting his body up,” she said. “I saw a body fall, but I didn’t know it was my son. I ran off to find my son.”

Marvin, who had been shot in the head, was still breathing when she reached his side, Hamm and two other witnesses told The Times that Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were there within moments and ordered the gunman to “freeze” but that he jumped into a waiting car and fled authorities.

Lt. Joseph Gooden of the Compton sheriff’s station said he would have to talk to the deputies  to determine what happened — which he said could take several days — before commenting on the witness accounts.

Marvin was taken to a hospital and into surgery, but he was pronounced dead at 3:10 p.m.

Hamm said she thinks Marvin was targeted by a gang. She said he “didn’t want to gang-bang; he wanted to go to school.”

“Every boy over there is targeted,” she said. “That’s the reason I had to take him to and from school. People were harassing him.”

Her street has been Nutty Blocc gang territory for a long time, she said, something she never quite learned to live with.

“When you come onto or off of the Grandees, you get approached.... I don’t understand the gang life. Back in my day people used their hands to fight; now they use guns,” she said. “Lord knows I wish that I could just hold him one more time, and I can’t. I can talk to his spirit all day long, but I can’t feel his touch.”

Sheriff’s Homicide Det. Sam Dendekker said he could not discuss details of the case because it is an active inquiry. He said investigators are still working to determine a motive.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact sheriff’s homicide detectives at (323) 890-5500.

-- Anthony Pesce reporting from Inglewood

Photo: Friends of Marvin Nicholson, a 13-year-old who was shot to death in the middle of the day in Compton, pay their last respects to him during his funeral at Simpson's Family Mortuary in Inglewood. Credit: Barbara Davidson/Los Angeles Times

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Comments

[Tragicone]

Sad my heart goes out to the family.we are losing the next generation over nothing

[Me]

He was obviously a troubled teen, he was in juveline probation already and the mother is pregnant with her sixth child??? Why does she continue to have kids if she cant raise the ones she already has? She is probably on Section 8 one of the reasons she is living in Compton. Why doesnt she get a job and take her kids out of Compton so they can have a brighter future and quit having babies if you cant raise them well !

[Pepsi]

Thank you LATimes for this article. This was a child that died, Compton is a community that has lost a child. There are alot of good people in Compton and in law enforcement in Compton, we must all come together and demand that the community be heard. Demand to know why the officers said "Freeze" and did not pursue the shooter, this horrible act has to be answered to, they owe us answers. We now have shooters that are laughing at our dead children and law enforcement. The LATimes can be of great service to us by standing with us until we get answers and Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas should offer a reward for the shooters so they cannot kill another child or adult. The LATimes should also find out if this child's death was reported correctly to the Board of Supervisors. Again thank you LATimes

[Tragicone]

If the police would have fired at these individuals and shot one of them.Then they would have been criticized for shooting a fleeing suspect catch 22

[jet]

Pepsi,
Let me see if I read this right...the day he got kicked out of school for behavior issues, he goes home and "MOM" is sitting there getting her hair braided and then allows him to go out to the store! Who shall we make responsible for her lack of parenting skills? May be the other mother down street that is actually mothering her child? Or may be it should be the reporter at the LA Times that didn't make it to the vigil? Or may be the school who didn't do enough to keep him in school? Tell me who should we say the responsiblity starts with? There's no way my 13 year old would get taken home from school for behavior problems and then turn right around and head out the door to the store!!! What punishment did she have for him? What the heck was she saving punishment for? The "shooters" took off, if the officers would have taken off after them and left this kid by himself what would you then be saying? Because the officers would not and should not part. This part of the city isn't exactly cop friendly so either both officers would have had to go after the guys and left this person their by himself or stay and try to help the person that is down. The cops are giving once chance to make a decision stay and try to help the person or leave and take the wrath from that? I say stay with the person that is down. If at the end only to be there so he doesn't die alone! So Pepsi, tell me what are you doing in your community to help out? What demands are you putting on yourself to give?

[Pepsi]

Jet,
Compton makes reports to the Sheriff's Dept and then the individual sheriff comes and tell the residents that complain that nothing changes were just going to be on you even more. They call the females bitches and ho's in front of their children. You go to complain at City Hall and they tell you to talk to the officers in charge first and they never call, they refuse to take complaints. Residents get harrassed by ticketing you for your car being in your driveway and then ticket you for moving the car and parking it in the streets. Yes we have tried to work within the system. A wife had three phone calls from Los Angeles County Twin Towers identiying him self as a detective from LACSD that her husband had been stabbed and in cridical condition. Her husband was at Wayside. When we called Wayside the sheriff there said it was a cruel joke someone from Twin Towers was playing on the wife and her husband was fine. Caller ID verified that the calls came from Twin Towers. Yes Compton has a bad reputation but something has to be done soon. At a repass the sherrif stormes the home the lady that died her young son asked the sheriff to leave and stop disrespecting his dead mother. His answer was I don't give a F... who your mama was. Some residents and law enforcement are out of control and who suffers the children. How dare you judge the mother she lost her child regardless of what number he was in her chain of births. You would be singing a different song if it had been your child and you would be lying to yourself if you say different. Her life style doesn't meet your approval, well guess what alot of people don't meet your approval and who cares. Where is your sympathy for a mother that lost her child. Or is it only for those mothers outside of Compton or South Central. We have contacted the FBI civil rights unit for and investigation of what is happening daily in all of Compton. Were not says the shooters, drug dealers, gang members are not to blame, but when you have to fight law enforcement who is suppose to help the residents it becomes pretty hard. Someone needs to come in and start talks soon because things are out of control already. LATimes has been a good avenue to get feelings out now so lets go further and get the Board of Supervisors involved with the FBI. No one should have to live the way the residents of Compton do.

[107street]

i stayed by the cpt air port in the park village housing for 3 years and i can say the police are cool but the people are super evil....most resident living in the area were gang banger's at one time in there life. how do i know??? well i used to gang bang so yes i do know. black people need to stop lying to the press and blaming THE POLICE

[Compton resident since 1970]

Everyone has valid points here.BThis has got to stoput lets face facts a mother has lost her child I dont care where she lives how many kids she has section 8 or a milionaire nothing can replace the loss of a child period.If your child is in the military they could get killed in war or injured thats expected to happen.But to be killed going to the store come on i dont care if he was sent home from school does that make him a prisoner in his home.Innocent children get shot too four year injured in Inglewood Thursday broad daylight.We must work together to stop this mess. No matter what your feelings are about police, gang members poor people rich people a mother has lost her child.

[James]

Pepsi-

Has anyone in your neighborhood ever heard of personal responsibility??? You know the concept of your are responsible for providing for your family not the state, that your provide the discipline and counseling for your children not a teacher, that you behave in a responsible manner and not have 6 kids that you cant afford or raise properly and then depend on the state(taxpayers) to provide for them, that you don't blame the police when they shoot a black kid with a gun, you know personal responsibility. Try it sometime....It works!

[James]

To": Compton resident since 1970-

You say a mother lost a child and for that we should all be sad and I truly am.

However I will not let that blind me to the fact that one to many mothers in your part of town are having more children then they can afford or raise properly. Which of course leads to these kinds of things if it wasn't him getting shot maybe he would have been doing the shooting some day you never know but its obvious that discipline was not big in his house. Whats sad is a whole generation of kids are coming up in your neighborhoods that have not been raised to respect anything including life and I place the blame squarely where it belongs and its with the "parents" having 4,5,6 or 7 kids that they don't have the first clue how to raise. To them it just means a few extra bucks on the welfare check.

[Just Say'n]

Amen to you Pepsi, because whoever this ME character is, how could you criticize this kids mother?, when you don't even know her, and what she's been through. You've never even walked a day in her shoes, so how in the hell could you criticize her?,I guess you was born with a silver spoon in her mouth!. What the hell does ME stands for?, ME is a ASS, ME is Stupid, because you can't be educated when you can't even spell, or do ME stands for Minimally Educated, I guess ME don't know sh#$ do you?... Now, I'm Just Say'n that; ME soooo retarded

[me]

Reading the truth hurts doesn't it? I am at work and do not have time to be looking over my spelling. You want to belittle me because of my spelling? Since you have nothing else on me. I am not critizing the mother of this poor child, critizing her actions? Maybe yes a little. No I do not know her, and I probably wouldn't want to know her. No I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth but my mother didn't have no 6 or 7 kids. Just my brother and I, we were raised to know if we ever behaved bad in school believe me there would be consequences. Grounded for sure.
I have a 4 yr old son who already gets punished for not listening or doing something inappropriate. I wouldnt want to walk a day in her shoes either.

[Nike]

This kid was probably a gang member or gang affiliated. This is like the 5th "good" football player story I heard.Jamiel Shaw was a gang member,Dannie Farber Jr from Compton also a football player was a gang member.

I really do feel bad for the mother but she MUST take care of the kids better and make sue you know almost everything you can about them.

[foclipz]

He got killed in the Nutty Block Compton Crip area of compton...Wilimington to the east......Central to the west.....Alondra to the north....and Greenleaf to the south......NY yankees hats is the team of choice....da Grandee Blocc is the where they rocc----its sad...im not saying this boy was in the gang...but he lived in that gang territory...and he most likely had friends who were active in the gang and he had been seen all the time with the gang members--and those gang bangers from Nutty Blocc are active killers...so this killing is in response to some killing that gang did to some one else's gang...its a cycle that wont stop...cus of people like his mom. 34 years old....6 kids...livin in the Grandees...what a stereotype of a black female from compton...now her son is a stat. now she gonna join the thousands of mother who gotta go to the cemetary to celebrate their kids birthday...man......this boy was just a baby...he needed a father in his life...and I dont see anything in the article that said he had a father...but I think I found the fathers of many of these kids..or at least the older role models...I found them on youtube... type in on youtube search..NUTTY BLOCC COMPTON CRIPS...and you will see these 2 guys let you know what this block that the kid got killed is all about...................Oh believe me...I know already...my girlfriend aunt lived in Park village for years until she died last year...so I was always in compton...and I was at the Chicken place on Alondra and Wilmington....the saturday before the shooting...coulda been me........

[The_M]

I plan to move back to L.A. someday, and I will be sure not to cruise through this part of town. I grew up in L.A. in the 60's and 70's, and went back briefly in the mid 80's, and some things never change. So, who's responsible? Who is to blame? We all need to look in the mirror. We all need to pick up a Bible.

[Outraged Father]

Pepsi, I'm so sorry this continues to go on in a community that desperately needs the protection of law enforcement, your messege speaks loud and clear, I can feel your frustration through your writing, I'm upset that the bullies arn't the ones treated the way the good citizens are, I really hope the LA Times takes notice of this one & hear the voices of the citizens and once and for all please please stop this evil insanity, we're losing good kids regardless what their juvenile situation is, 13 yrs old, good God why doesn't this end?

Pepsi if there was a way for you to gather others in the community and go to other media outlets (ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX)and take your passion to them and start exposing cops that
are behaving in an unethical and uncaring manner it'll show the nation that the citizens of Compton will no longer tolerate the brutality that plagues them.

[Sheba]

I am shocked to see what I am reading. Do you know how many people in compton get shot who are not gang bangers but good kids. I know of a few. I know of someone walking home from there first job in got shot thank God he was revived, that kid was not a gang banger. I read in the homicide report a couple of weeks ago of a youngman walking home from a school on palmer street in compton and was shot in the head on atlantic close to home. He was not a gang banger but in certain areas of compton their is racial tenison and some sections blacks cannot be in , and in some sections latinos cannot be in. Everybody in Compton is not having six children, everybody in Compton is not Doing wrong, we do live in a fallen world where evil is rampant. This tragedy could befall any of us and I pray to God that non of us on this comment page have to go through what this mother and others on this homicide report have had to endure. These people are living a nightmare that has become their reality.I read a lot of things on the page and some are true. But to critisize where someone lives is wrong . The evil one is everywhere. There is no safe place but heaven, so if you are looking for a safe place to live let that be your focus and while you are down here on earth follow the teachings of Jesus Christ first love thy neighbor as theyself. First you have to stop the self hate and start loving yourself than you can love your fellowman. Do not kill and etc....

[Scooby Doo]

me,
Everybody always got somehting to say about compton everybody in compton is not on section 8 you cant say nothing about compton if u havent live there i live in compton and i am not on section 8 and i dont bang i have a good job and i take care of my kids. It is bad everywhere not just in compton. Its bad in Hollywood they got skin heads and last halloween someone was stabbed.Its bad in Hawiian Gardens and its just as bad in L.A as it is over here so before you satrt saying oh well she was o section 8 one of the reasons she lived in compton and she shouldve took her kids out of compton you never know what she was going through and why she was living here. I can understand that she was looking out for her child when she shouldve been but you cant blame it on compton

[somebody]

ME ! i hope we dont ever have to read about your 4year on this page ur a very stupid un careing person. i dare u to say such a thing about this woman an her child. you dont know what the hell you raiseing

[missing linq]

wow,this is a very bad situation all around.no child deserves to die.as a young man i was gunned down,shot six times,never gangbanged.b average all-city football and track went to college plyed ball and came home and was gunned down.then, i charged it to the game,guilty by association.yep i knew everyone and they knew me.now as a simgle parent i try to teach my son and daughter to really watch who you choose as friends and associates and i hold they butts accountable for all their actions.i believe it starts a home.look in the mirror and ask yourself do you want your child to go thru half the sh#$%t we been thru.i feel all your comments are valid here, shame,blame and pain.one thing for sure we gotta break this cycle these are babies dying as well as killing......

[missing linq]

my son or daughter get sent home from school thats they a@#!!!no store no playtime no nothing but a foot you know where.we must all remember we all live in areas that are gang infested.as a parent we must do the best we can to teach them and protect them.please take care of your babies......

[Just Say'n]

ME,
If one day you let your 4 yr old outside to play, and some crazy guy came up and did something horrible to your child, God forbid, and when reading about what happen on a blog as this one, and you read how a blogger as yourself started saying terrible things about you, and they don't even know you, or your struggles, How would you feel?, If you want to judge anyone, judge that person that you see in the mirror in the morning when you brush your teeth, because that was cruel, and a stereotypical comment you made. No, I don't live in Compton, and never have, but as a parent I would never say such a cruel statement. And, your comment you made about "The truth hurts"..., have you verified IF your comment was the truth?, so how do you know?. Some guy coming up and killing this kid had nothing to do with his mother's lifestyle whats so ever, or if he was bad at school, Nothing at all!!. You Really need to check yourself!

[B.O.N.D]

How can we be so selfish, we do not know this mothers situation and besides if she had fifteen children does that give some heartless animal the right to destroy the life of her child. Instead of going back and forth about how she needs to stop having babies that she can not afford ,how she should have punished her child for being suspended, what the police should have done, and what gang territories are in certain neighborhoods etc .. We should be posting comments on how to stop this MADNESS in our communities. We as citizens of Los Angeles County need to put our creative minds to work and start coming together in unity to protect our brothers and sisters of all races from gun violence.

[cheryl a grieving mom]

wow we have some truly cruel ignorant people how dare you blame this mom for her son being murdered my son was murdered and i would love for someone to come in my face and say it was my fault i will be sitting in jail right now god bless this mom and all her kids i dont care if she has twenty kids so be it know one knows her situation so dont judge her ignorance is your name maybe if you lose your child to murder then you will know how bad and how deep it cuts you down stop judging this mom and if she was in the house getting her hair braided so what did she know her child would be murdered or what would you say if it was your child doing the killing wonder what your nasty comment would be then that you are a monster and you raised a little devil who kills so shut up and go pray it is not your child next and what in the world does section 8 have to do with your child being murdered half of the negative posts on here are misspelled wonder if your momma was on sec8 stupid people are all around and stupid comments add to it god bless you mom and i hope they find the animal who killed your son because they for sure have the two fools who killed mines and i hope they rot in prison and for the mothers who brought them into this world may she rot too.

[Tired.of.Denial]

Everybody is jumping on ME, but Me does have a point. It is terrible that a child was killed, and his mother will never get to see him again. That hurt...I can't even imagine what it must be like. But pregnant on her 6th child? She obviously already has enough on her hands. What is she thinking? Not about being responsible obviously.

[keep it real]

i think thats so cold.every body saying who at fault.the mother,the son that was killed because he was not at school,the city because its compton. point the finger at the right person the killer he is the only one to blame.he did the crime. he pulled the triger.because the mother has a few kids dont make her the blame.because the area he grew up in dont make him the blame. because compton is known to have a bad rep dont make the city the blame.its crime every where.people get shot at work.people get shot at school.people get shot in there homes.crime is all over but still no one deserve to have a life taken.

[missing linq]

keepin it real,you are right the violent crimes are being commited all across the board.in home,schools and the work place.and domesic stuff is probably at a all time high.man its crazy all over.plus the fact that those that get shot/stabbed or beaten and survive are not part of this blog,i can only imagine how long that blog would be.two girls got shot by my house a week ago and nothing.a half a block away at tams a young man lost his life a few weeks ago.we as a people/community have to start caring again........ its sad to see so many victims under 25.any is too many,but the young arent giving themselves a chance..................

[somebody]

me,
you need to be jumped on you are saying some crazy stuff about this mother child. ME! i hope you dont have thru this. what kind of a heart do you have are you human? i well close with saying this when you get home from work hug you baby real tight and pray and God to keep your child safe we never know if this will be the last we will ever see our baby's again. i well pray and ask God to chang your heart honey, i dont know what happen to you in your pass somthing had to went wrong for you to fell and think the way you do, may God have mercy on your soul.

[Jet]

Pepsi,
It is me Jet sorry I have been working unable to get back here. But I'm not saying this mother pulled the trigger on her own son. I'm asking you who should we make responsible for parenting this child? You asked a lot of questions, I too asked you some pretty tuff questions. Do you suppose it would have been better for the community to see the officers take off after the shooter and leave this child there to die by himself? If this had been my child I would have wanted them to stay with him and comfort him knowing all well that the last words my son would have heard were words of comfort. It is bad enough that he died alone with no family there for him on the streets like some kind of yesterday's trash don't leave my baby do breath his last breath with no one there. You can find out if this death was reported to the Board of Supervisors just go down there and present it yourself. I'm still not sure what the community wants when the community is the one shooting each other. The same people that are demaning change are the same people that want change without sacrafice. And by that I mean responsibilty, rules at home, consiquences for actions and oh yeah responsiblity!!!! Say what you mean and mean what you say. If that actions of one is wrong the action is wrong for all not just the kid down the street. If parents cannot parent stop having kids. None of us are blind! We can see how hard life is without an education, with little to no money, no support, very few of us were born with a silver spoon in our mouths. We have all had our share of problmes that we have had to face. How how can a person look at his or her life and want to bring a child into it? Life is hard enough by yourself and now you add children into the mix? Can you see that life for your child is going to be hard? What is the wall that keeps people from seeing that running wild and unsupervised just causes problems? You want change that's what we all want change. So when does responsiblity come into play? Because the last time I reviewed the issue and education is free up until the 12 grade. There's no reason for people not to get that education if you want it. There is safety in numbers right, well get this if 50% just 50% of parents in any given community made their kids do the right thing the majority of kids would not be picking up guns and running around at all given hours. But that again means make people responsible for parenting. Should this "mother" be going through this no I don't think she should. However, her actions leading up to the events that put her son out on the streets need to be added to the mix. I raised or am raising five boys in the ghetto. Three are adults now and those three have graduated from college. Two are in high school and you want to know what I didn't give birth to any of them. The circumstances of how they came to me are varied. It certainly isn't easy to raise a child, there are lots of exuses to give up: work, money, tired, depression, drugs, health and the list goes on and on. So take a long look at your situation before you bring a child and another and yet another into a situation where you love you just cannot parent. There's no shame in your game if you don't birth a child.

[STOP THE DENIAL BLACK PEOPLE!]

First of all, condelences to the mother and loved ones of this youngsta, and to all of those who have lost loved ones to these streets.

I couldn't imagine being a family member or loved one to one of these that have been killed and read some of the ignorance posted by some of these people on her.

First off, even though there is alot of ignorance being said on here, there is alot of truth behind the ignorance. One of the main things that irk me is that mostly everytime one this kids is murdered, mothers and loved ones are quick to say their child was innocent. In some cases that may be true but in most cases these parents know their kids are involved with gangs or associating with gang members. The denial has to end! You cant watch your children hanging out daily with the wrong crowd or having that wrong crowd coming to your house to visit your child and you dont see that something is wrong! I see it everyday here in Los Angeles. These kids are not in school, they are hanging out in the "hood". Back in my younger days, we tried not to hang anywhere close to my parents house out of fear of my parents or even neighbors seeing me. Now adays our youth(boys AND girls) are out all times on day and night doing nothing productive without a fear it seems from their parents or neighbors...

Parents need to get back into observing our children's friends and their behavior. Alot of our children are getting high, drunk on the regular in these streets and they come home with no reprecussions from the parents.

We as a people have lost are way. We dont get serious till death hit our door.

To be continued...

[foclipz]

You guys are missing the point. I blame the mother as well as I blame the guy who pulled the trigger. The mother set this kids life and death in motion. Good kids stay at the regular schools...not no reject problem child school. Good kids dont get sent home from school. Good mothers dont have 6 kids by different baby daddies and be single---livin in some Compton Grandee ave Nutty Block apartments. Check the stats...this type of life was lived in the late 60's by the OG's who started this gangbagin crap---Stanley Williams, Raymond Washington--and the other teens of the late 60's Early 70's---They came from homes with single parents---no fathers around...going from school to school--Juvi Hall--to Jail--Prison--to bein shot on 64th and San Pedro St---To being executed by the Governer of California in December of 2005---Now its sad that this kid is dead--But if it was not for MOTHERS like this one---who keeps the cycle going--her son would not be dead. The MOTHERS are the ones who get Pregnat by the local thug at 15---then they think they gonna have a regular life...and raise their kids like regular people. Because of the mothers failure to learn from the past...she let it repeat itself---through her life---to her sons...and now her son is another body tally lost in the streets of Compton. Thanks mom. You could have got your stuff together by the age of 34 and had your own home---had a great job...had a husband...but you choose to do what ever the hell you do...and raise kids who get kicked out of school..and get shot right in front of you....13 years old..kicked out of school?...he wouldnt be hangin unda a tree in Nutty Blocc hood...he would be doing some kind of school work in his room...with no chips candy sweets..soda---nothing....hopefully---you learn from this...and you wont have to bury any other children.

[yck]

NO MATTER WHAT HER SITUATION WAS..U HAVE 2 MAKE ENDS MEET ON WHAT U HAVE..I KNOW PEOPLE ON SECTION 8 WITH JOBS..AND SO FORTH..BUT HER SON DID NOT DESERVE 2 DIE LIKE THAT..

[Justin washington]

That was my little cousin More like a little brother i ask that all my Family yall just keep yall heads up i love yall all and know we all miss marvin! i miss the good times and the bad arguments and fights basketball and football boxing gloves and just hanging at Rowley park. i miss u and deanthony throwin Lemons at the cars in Taco bells drive thru i miss your laugh and how you thought u had all the girls i miss you period lil cuzzo and ill see you soon! from your big cuzzin Justin love always!!!

[LOK!]

checc this out i know him personally thats my little cousin he was a nice bright young man grew up fast when you live in an Gang infested area what do you expect but peer pressure from elders he was only 13 his birthday 4 days after mines but im 18 years old.. we were just in the livin room talkin about how we were gonna have fun for our birthdays!! he lived in compton but always tried 2 find a way 2 gardena where i live! to get away from his area. his mother is not the blame for whoever killed my cousin! whoever killed him is a coward and wish i could just see your face.. its Gang violence and yup im an active gang member my mother tried i can say she failed but at the end of the day im my own person and have 2 live with my own decisions and actions my little cousin was older than his age mentally he knew the streets i always prepaired him told him 2 watch his bacc this life is no joke.. we only have 1 but my little cousin is in gods hands couldnt noone stop him from going even if he lived in Fuccin beverly hills it was gods time 2 call him so he went home! away from all this evil and corrupted earth he is in peace now and i love you cousin see you soon!

[STOP THE DENIAL BLACK PEOPLE!]

The cycle needs to stop somewhere. Alot of sistas have not been raised and taught properly on how to choose a MAN correctly, and therefore many of our women are caught up in materialism or this whole glorified image of a thug, gangster etc..etc.. Women can tell in most cases that a man is no good nor wont be a good father by how he is currently living his life, but yet she still chooses him on the basis of what he is driving, or how much money he has, or his status in the "hood". Our children are exposed to these relationships to often and in most cases they repeat the same thing so the cycle never ends.

These parents who have lost their children to this senseless violence need to stop saying their children are innocent if they know their children are involved or associating with gangs so that they can say to these who want to follow in their footsteps that DEATH is most likely the outcome if they choose that lifestyle!

We have seem to all but giving up on our children and ourselves. Look at alot of these comments by what seem like some of our own people! Until we take charge of our household and our communities, this homicide report will only continue to be filled daily with our people! How many more hoave to die before we say enough is enough?! Black women and men need to get it together quick. We have become scared to go out and protect our own neigborhoods. We are afraid to approach our children and tell them they will not continue to be f*** ups! Too many of us have the attitude that "as long the problem not in my home, I dont care" mentality. It's all of our problem if still reside in these neighborhoods! Churches need to step up and get in these streets since its a church on just about every corner in L.A. Where are all these people thats packing the churches on Sunday?! As that saying goes, "What would Jesus do?"

[Just Say'n]

Only if the passion, expressions and feelings exhibited here, how we feel about this crime of MURDER, could be transmitted into actions, by teaching our kids life's values. We laughed so many years at the drug addicts and alcoholics, we seen riding down the street with refrigerators, and other house hold appliances in shopping baskets trying to sale them for wine, crack, and other drugs, then watched the drug addict women who got pregnant and still using drugs have these babies. Well, now some of the kids doing these killings and other horrible crimes we see are the result of those drug addicts, and alcoholic parents we saw back in the day, that should have been kept from having kids. Now the kids and grandkids from these situations are growing up and inflicting the hurt and pain on our society. That's why we have to make a change and start turning these thugs in to the law, and getting help for the troubled kids. You can anonymously call WE-Tip @ 800-78-CRIME (27463) or 800 47-DRUGS (37847) and start turning these thugs (aka neighborhood terrorist) in if you see them selling drugs in your community which is also 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 hopefully get back to the days when kids could be kids, playing outside, walking to the park to play, and have fun being a kid, Do you remember those days?, I sure do...

[the truth]

It ooesnt matter where u live there is not a major a difference between living in the grandee apartments or living in a 500k house in the del amo section of carson its all gang territory and things can randomly happen at any time the focus should be on the coward that would do something like this to a kid

[truth]

Nobody is focusing on the coward that did this.Just because someone lives in compton doesnt mean they deserve to die!just because he had problems in school doesnt mean he deserves to die.He was only 14,it doesnt matter where u live or how muc money u make or how u raise your kids just being at the wrong place at the wrong time or even the wrong race in certain areas is enough to get u killed there are just as many if not more innocent people that have gotten killed due to gang violence than actual gang members

[somebody]

i would like to ask this one thing,what if he dident hang around gangs,what if he wosent a bad kid ,what if he was just walking home from school being a ''good'' kid what would you people say about that? OH maybe you would say he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. you people need to stop judgeing these kids.yea, we all know we all know we have the good kids and the bad kids but until you get the truth about this kid you need to just judgeing this child an his mon.95% of you black people with your comments know you dident have bouth parents in the home with you.my parents were in the home when i was comeing up in the hood, i have a brother he was so bad my dad had to beat his butt just about every day for being bad in school. sometime it up to kid also if they wont to make somthing out of there lives. its a half an half life, eather you wont to make somthing out of your or you dont.

[djohn]

People wake up. sitting here cast stones at a glass house is not going to make this go away. Nothing could have prevented what happen that day, because that what was written.AS THE SAYING GOES, GOD MAKES NO MISTAKES. We are waiting for the police to do something, we waiting for the church to do something, we waiting on the President to do something, but what are we trying to do. Gang claim the hood, but don't pay taxes, mortgages, got us scared to be out after dark, scared to let our children out to play. Stop hating on the next man or woman because of where they live or how they are living. We can't change a person but we can change negative thinking. We are a STRONG RACE, OUR PEOPLE DID NOT WORK THE FIELDS AND FIGHT FOR FREEDOM TO GET US HERE TO KILL EACH OTHER. Next time you are getting ready to ride or see an ememy and he pull the heat just remember YOUR NUMBER IS UP.

[Outraged Father]

LOK! is an idiot, what do you mean it was his time to go, he's in God's hands? You really think that God wills for this to happen, that sounds like God is just a evil as you gang bang'in fools. The Lord ALLOWS sin to take its course,He doesn't cause it, meaning that he knows the beginning & the end, He knows the the heart of mankind which is inherently evil, so based on that, He's not going to magically just stop some punk from pulling the trigger, he lets the murdering rat bastard cowards exerise their free will unforfunately families get shattered as a result, So please LOK! don't tell us on this blog that God called your cousin home like if you know,what a joke, lets not be confused and think that hood rats killing the innocent is just "OH WELL" its God's will, its insulting!!!!

You say you're your own person?What does that mean? That you can get out anytime you want? Or does it mean that you yourself like that lifestyle of death? Want to talk about God LOK? Give your life to Christ and get the guts to leave the gang, don't be weak like those nutty blocc crips. Honor your cousin's memory and get out.

[Compton to Texas]

I was a long time resident of Compton in Sunny ove next to Park Village. First of all I want to applaud outrage father. LOK is an idiot and he speaks as if we should be impressed with his idiotic thinking.LOK man I've been down that road and it's a dead end street. Get out and educate yourself and stop trying to be the tuff kid on the block. I have two 19 year old sons (twins) that I raised not to go down that road, but one of them chose that route. He now knows that is not the way. I've move to Texas from Compton three years ago and its a big difference. Its feels good not to have to look over your shoulders worrying about some punk putting a bullet in you. If you're your own person, grow up and be your own man and get your life together. I know I have and it didn't take people to tell me. I've been spoken from my elders, but they couldn't change me I had to change myself. I have faith in you my young brotha and I apologize for the 'IDIOT' statement, but go back and really read what you wrote and you will see that what you said was idiotic, but you need to change.

[a grieveing mom forever]

THIS IS STUPID STOP BLAMING THE MOM YOU IDIOTS THIS LADY LOST HER CHILD DONT JUDGE HER TIL YOU HAVE WALKED A MILE IN HER SHOES WHAT ABOUT THE MOTHER OF THE PERSON WHO MURDERED THIS CHILD WONDER WHAT YOU WOULD SAY TO HER MY GOD I WALK IN THESE SAME SHOES EVERYDAY AND IT IS NOT GOOD IT IS HEARTBREAKING STOP IT AND SPEAK BAD ABOUT THE KILLER OR KILLERS TO THE MOM I HOPE YOU DONT EVEN READ THIS CRAP ON HERE THESE PEOPLE ARE FOOLS AND THEY WOLD NOT SAY IT TO YOUR FACE IGNORANCE COMES IN BULK AND ITS RIGHT HERE GOD BLESS YOU MOM AND I HOPE YOU CAN SURVIVE THIS TRAGEDY I AM TRYING TO MYSELF.

[Jet]

Greiving Mom,
None of us can have it both ways. We cannot continue to allow our children to do what he/she wants without taking into account the out come of actions. None of us said that this mother pulled the trigger and shot her own kid. None of us said she was totally to blame for this situation. What we said and you missed was...take responsiblity! Was this kid some innocent just walking to the store? No, this kid had problems and instead of "MOM" helping him with them she pushed it out of her mind put it on someone else. I don't think any of us think she should be going though this. But did she navigate her own boat I would err on the side of caution and say yes. She had the ability to change things within her own life and the life of her child. She had the responsiblity to do that. We make decisions to have children but we do not make decisions to raise healty well adjusted members of society. As for you son again in the perfect world none of use would have to suffer the pain of a dying child. The mothers for every child killed and the mothers of every killer must take responsiblity for the lack of attention that played a part in either having a son or daughter that was killed or has killed. That is what the majority of us are saying. Be it the killer or the killed, take responsibilty. This mother has what five or six children left to raise and mother. Realize the mistakes already made and learn from them. A child removed from school because of bad behavior does not get to walk to the store for treats. She should have been on the phone to his social worker or probation officer or whom ever telling them she cannot handle him and asking for help.

[a grieveing mom forever]

foclipz is a fool you post on here a lot and is allways bashing loved ones why? you must be a parent of one of these thugs who kill these innocent kids allways something negative i would hope it dont hit home for you because what would you say then about having your family member gunned down like a dog by these cowards shame on you i feel sorry you have to post your negative comments you sicken me and i wish you would get a life sicko no one asks to be murdered people like you have no heart i feel sorry for this mom and the rest of her kids i know they suffer from the lost of their brother and i could care less how many kids she has it does not matter you are not taking care of them and nobody knows how she takes care of her kids i wish her the best and i hope your family member is not next then you will know the feeling you freakin nut whack job get a life stop posting on this site it is not healthy get some help you need it.

[SOME BODY]

foclipz,who cut your heart out,that was pretty cold blooded thing to say about that mom kid. you and Me must know each other she saide some ugly stuff to you must have some issues jumping off in your life. you need to check your heart.

[scarceshika]

First of all my condolences go to the family of the story. It really breaks my spirit when i read articles like this. I was checking the niches of the blogs the LATimes has to offer.To see that the homocide report is a niche tells me alot about the culture and obstacles along with the timing of this publication. I'm 28 years old and am very grateful to have made it this far. I'm also a New Yorker and we are exposed to the gang related violence in Compton on TV especially and in the movies. Judging by the comments to this article, I'm not alone when i believe there has to be a solution to this. Wow, when avoiding people you go to school with and driving your kids home doesn't help. To think people actually get amped up like they finished watching a karate movie off of this reality based theme on the silver screen. i would like to sign out with a salutation of Peace. www.scarceshika.com/blogs.html

[a grieveing mom forever]

i want to say what happens when u raise your kids right in a gang infested area and they turn out to be good citizens and by no means anyone is perfect i have kids and we have a good relationship and it starts at home i took responsibility for my kids involved in school and the whole nine my son was active in his church with the youth ministry his grandfather was the pastor baptizing the people on the bet show baldwin hills he had good role models in his life and wow look what happen to him right across the street where i live shot by two grown men gang members now tell me where in the heck did i go wrong at i cant see it people when your child is murdered it is painful right down to your very soul i raised my son all his life surrounded him with love and positive people only foolish people have negative things to say you have not walked in those shoes i would not wish this kind of hurt on my worst enemy stop blaming this mom nobody knows her circumstances it makes me angry how people can judge by what they read on here and claim they know the problem sad thing is that none of you people will ever understand and she will be judged by what little is known about her personally mom if you are reading this i wont judge you and please dont pay attention to any negative comments on here they are worthless and cant change what has happened to your son he might of been going a little stray but he had time to grow and change a maybe turn out to be the best son you could ever have had he is watching over you and the rest of your family now be at peace and think about all the good times you had with him and in time you will feel a little better it does not go away but at least you will be at peace it seems like yesterday to me i still live in the same place where my son was murdered and the reason i wont move is because i have this thing that i say it was not where i lived it was the people they were caught hours after killing my son after a high speed chase and a police lockdown of the surrounding area because of people who was not scared to get the license plate and call 911 after witnessing this in broad daylight and being angry that these fools thought they were going to get away with such a cowardly act god bless them had it not been for them my son would not be their only victim that day and and after a trial this is not the first murder they have done be it justifiable are not take a life stay for life and thats where they will be so to you mom i dont know you but i know the feeling and it is not a good one at all stay strong and do all you can to make sure the police continue to look for your son's killer are killers god bless you and your family stay prayed up thats all you can do.

[a grieveing mom forever]

oops and for the record for those who says that having a lots of kids is a big no no i forgot to mention that i am a mother of seven wonderful children who i raised myself and doing great so to all of you dumb a$$ people who have anything to say about this mom having all these kids ask her how she is raising them and if she gets any kind of assistance i bet you dont write her a check out of your bank account do you i have a job and i have been on my same job for twenty two years now how do you like me now so i wonder did i ask those a$$ holes to come murder my son and i have one son with autism i wonder will i be blamed for that ignorance comes big time here and it is sad because it all looks the same WOW find out the facts before you blame this mom nobody knows what type of punishment she dished out to her son for his actions that day from being out of school you will be judged one day and you might not like what you hear.

[Tabernay Simon]

PEOPLE I dont WANNA WASTE YUR TIME BUT ITS THINGS I NEED TO DO

1- MARVIN IM SO SORRY FOR OUR LAST FIGHT AND IM SORRY I DIDNT GET TO DAY SORRY

2-PEOPLE YU GUYS ARE LEAVIN SOME MESSED UP COMMENTS(PEPSI) I THINK MOMA Lakeisha IS A WONDERFUL MOTHER!!!!!

3-I DONT NEED NO REPLYS ON MY COMMENT THANK YOU

4-WHO AM I?????THATS WHAT YOUR WONDERING
WELL IM MARVINS EX GIRL FRIEND!!!

5-IM CLOSING WITH THIS

ME AND MARVIN WE HAD OUR UPS AND DOWNS BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY WE HAVE ALWAYS SEEMED TO WORK IT OUT MARVINS KNOWS MORE OF ME THEN I DO MYSELF I HONESTLY LOVED HIM BUT NOW WHAT DO I LOVE?? I CAN ALWAYS TALK TO HIS SPIRIT .. BUT WHERE IS HIS TOUCH???NOW I ONLY HAVE MINE AND HIS GUD DAYS AND BAD DAYS FUN DAYS AND SAD DAYS TO REMEBER WHAT WE HAD!! AND WHAT WAS OUR LAST FIGHT ABOUT??? HIM CHANGIN HIS LIFE!!!!!ANS SLOWLY BUT SURELY DISPICT WAT EVERYONE ONE IS SAYIN ON HERE HE WAS!!!! AND I LOVE HIM FOR THAT...WELL THATS IT

MARVIN I LOVE YU AND THAT IS REAL(EVAN WHEN WE ARGUED I STILL DID)

♥TaBernay U. Simon