{"id":486624,"date":"2026-10-06T06:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486624\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:52:08","slug":"families-grieve-2-teens-shot-at-northridge-party-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486624\/","title":{"rendered":"Families grieve 2 teens shot at Northridge party \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family and friends of two teenagers who were shot to death at a party in Northridge<\/a> over the weekend are navigating their grief and seeking answers as law enforcement continues to search for the gunman responsible for the deaths.<\/p>\n

Video showed a chaotic scene Friday as shots rang out at The Artist Lounge, killing 18-year-old Jaydin Lewis and 19-year-old Kimberly Pastor. Lewis was just starting his senior year of high school and Pastor was raising her 2-year-old daughter before their lives were tragically cut short.<\/p>\n

Now, flowers, candles and balloons make up a growing memorial outside the lounge in honor of the teens.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJaydin Lewis, 18, and Kimberly Pastor, 19, were shot inside the Artist Lounge in a strip mall. This video was broadcast during the NBC4 News on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\u201cThis shouldn’t happen to anyone, my family, Kim’s family,\u201d said Tara Maxwell, Lewis\u2019 aunt. \u201cWe should never have to bury our children. Our children should be burying us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJaydin, he was just out there to have fun,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd for him to get shot in the back, he didn’t even see this coming. That was just senseless. It was senseless.\u201d<\/p>\n

A vigil was held Sunday in Pastor and Lewis\u2019 memory. Their loved ones gathered as they embraced one another and mourned the young lives lost.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was innocent, and she was at the wrong place at the wrong moment,\u201d said Mildred Pastor, Kimberly\u2019s mother. \u201cAnd they just left a baby with no mom, a 2-year-old. And now she’s just going to be asking, \u2018Where’s mommy?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The venue\u2019s owner said the event space had been rented by a promotional company that used the space to promote artists who were clients. Witnesses said the party had been advertised on social media.<\/p>\n

Details on what led up to the shooting remain unclear. A description of the gunman has not been made available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family and friends of two teenagers who were shot to death at a party in Northridge over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,25567,7611],"class_list":["post-486624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-northridge","tag-san-fernando-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486624","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=486624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}