Gang Violence Kills Teenager

Los Angeles:  A young man, 17 years of age, was shot and killed in a gang-related shooting Sunday morning. 

On September 2, 2007, at around 3:15 a.m., officers were called to investigate a shooting that had just occurred at 111th Street and Vermont Avenue.  When they arrived they found a large group of people gathered around Ravion Corsey. Corsey had been shot once in the upper body.

Paramedics responded to the location and transported Corsey to a local hospital where he died a short time later.

Police have no suspect information and believe the motive for the shooting to be gang related.

Anyone with information is asked to call Operation-South Bureau Criminal/Gang Homicide, Southeast Squad, Detective Sal LaBarbera at 213-485-4341. On weekends and during off-hours, call the 24-hour toll free number at 1-877-LAWFULL (529-3855).

Comments

[Andrew]

We live in a very sad times. Unfortunatly gang violence is not something that can be dealt with in one direct way. There are people, those living in the 'gang' affected areas or/and part of those gangs that would welcome a change, given a chance and support from the goverment by means such as 'protective custody', 'relocation programme', 'placements grants', yet the goverment is failing it's citizens in every one of those departments not to mention numerous other factors to with a blind eye is turned, therefore letting the situation control itself, which it can not do but blow to most uncontrollable levels, like a runaway train that keeps gaining speed going downhill and crashing everything in its path.. Also there are those gang members that do not want to change their lifestyle, partly because it is a way of life to which they have became accustomed to, partly because they see the goverment failing them in every department and all those promises made by the politicians are nothing but 'sugar coated shit candy' that the more you bite the more hidden truths you uncover. Those people realise that they will make more money then they could ever do within a more 'peaceful' lifestyle, but it come with a price: health, wellbeing or more commonly a persons life. No goverment has the right to put its people like cattle on the edge of a cliff and put them before a choice: jump and die or try and run back and get shot..
Unfortunatly it appears to be a perfect checkmate...whilst we are dieing on the streets and in our homes, those in control 'shit on us from a high branch of a tree' where they are unreachable..
It is a frightening prospect and an incredably sad situation being able to see, hear and experience all of the following around us but beeing complitely unable to change the situation for the better.. We are all being inprisoned.. ..inprisoned in our 'fake artificial freedom'.