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Green Meadows: Ricardo Chavez, 25

By Anthony Pesce
 and Corina Knoll
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Ricardo Chavez, a 25-year-old Latino, was shot and killed Sunday, Nov. 22, in the 900 block of East 98th Street in Green Meadows, authorities said.

Chavez was attending his 25th birthday party when he got into an argument with a man who allegedly shot and killed him, Los Angeles police said. Chavez was shot about 2:30 a.m. and taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:13 a.m., according to coroner’s records.

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Parrish Najarro, a 26-year-old black man who authorities said is a friend of Chavez’s girlfriend’s ex-husband, has been arrested and charged with Chavez’s murder, according to the felony complaint filed by the district attorney’s office.

-- Anthony Pesce and Corina Knoll

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Map: The location where Ricardo Chavez was shot. Click for the Green Meadows Mapping L.A. page to learn more about the demographics of the neighborhood.
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Anthony Pesce

Anthony Pesce worked for the Los Angeles Times from 2009 to 2020 as a data journalist and reporter on the Data and Graphics desk.

Corina Knoll

Corina Knoll is a former reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that investigated corruption in Bell — which led to the paper’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service — and went on to cover the trials of the city’s former officials. She later contributed to the paper’s coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. As a regional reporter, she wrote features about the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. During her courts beat, she covered high-profile criminal cases and civil disputes, including the Jackson family vs AEG and Bryan Stow vs LA Dodgers. She and two colleagues investigated sheriff’s deputies whose histories of misconduct landed them on the department’s top-secret Brady list. She left The Times in January 2019. Raised in the Midwest, she is a graduate of Macalester College.

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