Their families have marched each spring since the anniversaries of their deaths as a call for peace and to not let the neighborhood forget. Thirteen-year-old Draysean Earl, a middle school honors student who knocked out 200 push-ups a night to become one of the best player on his local football team and hoped to someday join the NFL, died the next morning. Sixteen-year-old Andrew Peppers, a skateboarder who had hoped to soon get a car and someday go to college, died instantly. All but three witnesses vanished without a trace. It was a day known as Hood Day on the Compton turf of the South Side Crips, a day whose calendar designation 5/5 resembles SS, a day when sheriff’s investigators say shootings and gang-related retaliations occur.Ī young black man in a royal blue T-shirt and black jeans walked up and fired five shots from a large-caliber pistol from 250 feet away, a distance of about five houses. On the afternoon of May 5, 2009, up to 15 teenage boys and girls were hanging out by a brick wall in front of a home on South Temple Avenue, sheriff’s deputies said. Scores more were blown away while riding in cars, parked in their cars, working on their cars, riding their bicycles, or standing in their carports, driveways, front yards, doorways, or on the sidewalk - shot once or more. The unsolved deaths include 3-year-old Denzell Martin-Sande, black, shot in the face in May 2003, 15-year-old Amber Sanders, white, shot multiple times in August 2001 and 18-year-old James Botelho, Hispanic, shot in the head while driving his car in July 2006 in what was likely a gang-related hit, according to police. More Coverage: Getting Away With Murder.In a city where two-thirds of its residents are now Latino, 99 were black, 74 Hispanic, and three were white or Pacific Islanders, according to the coroner’s data. Of all the victims whose murders remain unsolved, the average age was 28. The rest died from trauma or other injuries.Īll but 10 were men or boys, many shot in the street by gang members from the South Side Compton Crips to the Pirus to any number of Compton Varrios for doing nothing more than wearing the wrong color hat or shirt, being of the wrong color skin, gang affiliation, or for simply being in the wrong hood. Of those, 177 are still unsolved.Īll but five were felled by one or more gunshots, according to the Coroner’s Office. Some 302 people in Compton were killed by another’s hand from 2000 through 2010, an 11-year span, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. VIDEO: A mother calls for justice in Compton.“I sent a group to bless the place where he was killed. Francisco Valdovinos of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, on a recent Sunday. “We had one who was killed yesterday we’re having Mass right now,” said the Rev.
COMPTON CRIME RATE ZIP
Some ZIP codes in View Park-Windsor Hills, Inglewood, South Los Angeles and West Athens-Westmont scored higher than Compton, according to just-released police data.
That’s 13 percentage points higher than the county’s unsolved rate and at least 4 percentage points higher than that of the nearby communities of Lynwood, east Compton and north downtown Long Beach.
COMPTON CRIME RATE CODE
An 18-month analysis by this news group of more than a decade of homicide data found that most killers in the mostly minority, low-income city escape justice, with 59 percent of slayings in its largest ZIP code still unsolved.
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