The Los Angeles Medical Examiner identified a teenage boy who was shot and killed near a Chick-fil-A in Cerritos on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The boy, identified Sunday as 15-year-old Darnell Jones, was shot close to the fast food restaurant located in the Los Cerritos Center on Gridley Road at around 4 p.m. Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.<\/p>\n
Video from Saturday showed the area near the Chick-fil-A blocked off with yellow tape, with multiple LASD SUVs and deputies at the scene.<\/p>\n
Investigators say Darnell was taken to a hospital, where he died. No one else was shot, officials said.<\/p>\n
Details about what led up to the shooting or a possible suspect were unknown.<\/p>\n
Family members told NBC Los Angeles that Darnell was going to be a junior at Magnolia High School in Anaheim.<\/p>\n
“Darnell was a good boy. He was just a kid, and he got murdered by another kid,” said his father, Tyrell Jones.<\/p>\n
He said Darnell is the youngest of eight children.<\/p>\n
“I have a good memory with my son at that mall, buying him some shoes for basketball,” Jones said, reflecting on a moment that happened about a year-and-a-half ago. “That’s what’s got me going. That I have a positive memory of my son and I going to this mall to go buy some shoes. It’s already an ugly debbie downer situation and negative, and I’m just grasping and searching for anything positive I can use to be strong for my family.”<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact LASD’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Medical Examiner identified a teenage boy who was shot and killed near a Chick-fil-A in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21173,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-360985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-cerritos","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\/360985","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=360985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}