An investigation is underway in East Los Angeles after a teenager was shot early Saturday morning and later died.<\/p>\n
Deputies responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call near Sixth Street and Fraser Avenue at around 1:15 a.m., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. When they arrived, they found a boy who was shot.<\/p>\n
He was taken to a local hospital, where he died, the sheriff’s department said.<\/p>\n
Family and friends identified the victim as 17-year-old Joshua Aila. His sister said the teen was driving home after grabbing food with their younger brother when he was shot about a half-mile from where he lived.<\/p>\n
They described Aila as a talented boxing coach who loved to help train his friends.<\/p>\n
“I was always motivated by him because he would always do good in life,” his friend David Ventura told NBC Los Angeles. “He wouldn’t do anything bad to anybody, and I can’t believe this happened to him today.”<\/p>\n
A memorial with candles, flowers, photos and handwritten messages was set up near the home where Aila lived with his family.<\/p>\n
“We’re all going to miss him,” Aila’s friend Jayden Garcia said. “He played a very important part in our lives, with coaching us, mentoring us, being there for our fights, being there mentally for us. And I hope they catch the people who did this.”<\/p>\n
Investigators say the shooter went into a dark-colored SUV before going east on Sixth Street. No other suspect information was provided.<\/p>\n
It’s unclear if the shooting was gang-related, officials said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact LASD’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500 or submit an anonymous tip through Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway in East Los Angeles after a teenager was shot early Saturday morning and later…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13043,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-319820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-east-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}