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3 to stand trial in South L.A. killing of 19-year-old over his red shoes

A judge Friday ordered three men to stand trial for the killing of a 19-year-old who was shot outside a South Los Angeles carwash last summer over the color of his red shoes.
Kanasho Johns, 28; Dwight Kevin Smith, 30; and Kevin Deon Johnson, 25, will be arraigned on murder charges later this month in connection with the shooting death of Tavin Price, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge M.L. Villar ordered.

Price was at a carwash in Hyde Park about 11 a.m. on May 29 when he went to a nearby smoke shop to buy a soda and was confronted by two men who asked about his gang affiliation because he was wearing red shoes, authorities said.

A woman who had been inside the shop told investigators that Price was asked why he had “all that red on” shortly before the shooting, according to testimony by Los Angeles police Det. Eric Crosson.
The detective said the woman told police that Price responded, “I don't gang bang,” and that she told the man to leave Price alone because he was mentally disabled.
Authorities said Price ignored the men and walked back to his mother and a family friend who were finishing up at the carwash. As Price stood in front of his mother, Jennifer Rivers, he was shot, police said.

After the three men were charged with murder last summer, Rivers told reporters that she goes to the Inglewood Park Cemetery each day to visit her son's grave. She said she still hears in her mind her wounded son asking her if he was going to make it.
“He didn’t deserve to be murdered right in front of my face,” she said at the time.
Antheyst Jarrett, 27, who was arrested in connection with the killing, plead no contest to a charge of preventing or dissuading a witness from reporting a crime last fall and was sentenced to seven years in state prison, according to a spokesman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
Prosecutors allege that the crime was committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang.
The men will be arraigned Jan. 29.



Source: LA Times
at 1/16/2016 08:05:00 am

62 comments:

  1. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:06

    What a Crime

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  2. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:06

    Street gangs and cult wars ,

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  3. Mufliat16 January 2016 at 08:07

    Too many killings here and there, people are becoming so wicked.
    Nawa o
    They should face it .














    #Hajia Mufliat

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  4. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:08

    na wa ooooo. killing of a 19-year-old who was shot
    outside a South Los Angeles carwash last
    summer over the color of his red shoes.

    God punish devil and his candidates

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  5. tsalz c.e.o16 January 2016 at 08:08

    good

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  6. tosisochukwu16 January 2016 at 08:11

    Common shoe?





















    !brightosman aka fake phyno .#gerarahere

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  7. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:11

    Uhmmmm













    *dew*

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  8. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:12

    Oh my God what a wicked world.
    Muslims is evil i know that the killers are Muslim for peace to reign in America an world say no to Islam.























    #sad indeed

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    1. Anonymous16 January 2016 at 12:12

      Please do not say that about Muslims. I have been a Christian and my best friends have been Muslims. If I had a job vacancy, there are two people I would first search for - a Jehovah's Witness and a Muslim. These are some of the most dependable people in the world. Ignore the Perverts and Extremists.

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  9. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:14

    Oh my God what a wicked world.
    Muslims is evil i know that the killers are Muslim for peace to reign in America an world say no to Islam.























    #sad indeed

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  10. eunymz16 January 2016 at 08:16

    Can u imagine..serves them right

    MZ EUEU

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  11. baba16 January 2016 at 08:17

    Evil

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  12. Anonymous16 January 2016 at 08:17

    Enter your comment...what a wicked world

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  13. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:18

    Because of red shoes? This is annoyingly stupid.

    Okbye.

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  14. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:18

    Hmmmm.. RIP to him..

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  15. Eddy Ogbunambala 16 January 2016 at 08:19

    Continue to rest in peace

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  16. Bonita Bislam16 January 2016 at 08:19

    Its a terrible thing for a mother to see the life she brought into the world goes back in a very brutal & undeserving way .
    The pain will never go away.It's like a shadow to the heart.

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  17. NaijaDeltaBabe16 January 2016 at 08:20

    Dey shld face it


    ...merited happiness

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  18. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:24

    All forms of cultism, militancy and terrorism are organized by the devil to keep destroying humanity. Pls let's say no to cultism.

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  19. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:28

    Dey should be hanged already. Linda take note!

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  20. ubookmobileblog16 January 2016 at 08:31

    Please everyone take note and don't forget plz





    Ubookmobileblog.com is a m news, gist and gossip media blog. Please visit now and have fun and also contribute to the blog. Thanks as you vist.

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  21. kfc16 January 2016 at 08:33

    killed by crips

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  22. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:33

    Na wahooo

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  23. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:37

    Hope they won't go free for taking another person's life

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  24. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:41

    Dem need to do something about gun control fast! People go just dey waste life like say Dem fit create one



    AJ MAIN BOY...

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  25. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:42

    Nawao
    -D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds

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  26. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:43

    God what is this world turning too killing here and there.

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  27. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:44

    They deserve it

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  28. JAYZSBOSS16 January 2016 at 08:46

    Wow..

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  29. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:47

    What you sow you reap.

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  30. Muna16 January 2016 at 08:51

    Absurd stories shaa

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  31. Unknown16 January 2016 at 08:59

    Killing over shoe? Mehnn the hustle there is hard.

    #PeopleMustAdjust

    BiafraLand

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  32. linda Last Born(IPHY)16 January 2016 at 09:00

    Judgement 2 Be pass accordingly...

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  33. Unknown16 January 2016 at 09:05

    serves them right. RIP to d dead. www.skybased.blogspot.com

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  34. Unknown16 January 2016 at 09:06

    Lol...I think say na only naija tis cult tin dey.....ts all good...Rip to Price.............ts all good

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  35. Unknown16 January 2016 at 09:07

    .I think say na only naija tis cult tin dey.....ts all good...Rip to Price.............ts all good

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  36. Unknown16 January 2016 at 09:07

    .I think say na only naija tis cult tin dey.....ts all good...Rip to Price.............ts all good

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  37. Unknown16 January 2016 at 09:17

    Nmmmh... Just because of red shoe. That was how some guys stopped me and my cousine one day and asked why he was putting on a RED face cap. I was like " Una dey mad"

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    1. Unknown16 January 2016 at 11:13

      This is simply the most horrific thing to happen to a mom. Watch ur son being murdered right in front u. Heartless people killed an innocent boy cos of red shoe.

      Long live LIB

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    2. Unknown16 January 2016 at 11:15

      This is simply the most horrific thing to happen to a mom. Watch ur son being murdered right in front u. Heartless people killed an innocent boy cos of red shoe.

      Long live LIB

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  38. Unknown16 January 2016 at 09:38

    What a tragedy . All cos of them red shoes

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  39. Golda Awosika16 January 2016 at 09:38

    Criminal everywhere you turn to




    #*karlishah*

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  40. Abu Dhabi16 January 2016 at 09:47

    So they do that over there and I thought it's only in naija here we do don't fly colors you know nothing about.. Cultism everywhere na only God go save us

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  41. Unknown16 January 2016 at 10:03

    So is forbidding 2 wear red al cos of gang. Jus like when I was in shc. U can't wear black beret or yellow al cos of cult. jus kill him lik dat. May soul rest in peace

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  42. Unknown16 January 2016 at 10:04

    So is forbidding 2 wear red al cos of gang. Jus like when I was in shc. U can't wear black beret or yellow al cos of cult. jus kill him lik dat. May soul rest in peace

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  43. Unknown16 January 2016 at 10:17

    Hmm

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  44. Unknown16 January 2016 at 10:17

    Hmm

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  45. Unknown16 January 2016 at 10:44

    They must be killed too

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  46. Chiisunshine(carolips)16 January 2016 at 10:59

    Gang bang

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  47. Mayberry16 January 2016 at 11:21

    Cultists everywhere u go,even when there is no money. Weeeeeeel

    Edobabe#replinda#

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  48. Unknown16 January 2016 at 11:25

    Blacks in YUESSAY and gangs! Unfortunately the laws are to me still not harsh enough to tackle this stupidity in a world renowned nation.

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  49. Unknown16 January 2016 at 11:26

    what a world..the unthinkable taking ceter stage

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  50. owakah (A.K.A. Innosometin)16 January 2016 at 11:47

    #speechless

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  51. Unknown16 January 2016 at 11:51

    RIP

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  52. Unknown16 January 2016 at 12:39

    Thank God they are now facing justice

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  53. Unknown16 January 2016 at 13:57

    These guys killed because of shoe color. They must face fire square,

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  54. paparazi16 January 2016 at 14:33

    Jail for the murderers.

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  55. Pesin Pikin16 January 2016 at 15:17

    Is this story for reals??/ For a shoe??/ Plz dey shd do some time abeg cuz no time

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  56. yombrushi16 January 2016 at 17:27

    Crips & Bloods

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  57. kings11ng17 January 2016 at 18:47

    FBI'S cointelpro destroyed the black panthers and started funding the blood(piru) and crips. Since then the black man have been killing each other while the KKK just watch and laugh. How ignorant can you be as to kill someone cos of his shoe colour?

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  58. Unknown17 January 2016 at 22:21

    CRIPS AT IT AGAIN. WHY DO THESE YOUNGINS KEEP JOINING THESE GANGS

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  59. Unknown25 January 2016 at 18:51

    Wickedness of the highest order

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