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LA Mourns Slain High School Football Star

Posted Mar 12, 08 3:10 AM CDT in US 

(Newser) – Mourners packed the funeral of a Los Angeles high school football star yesterday as police charged a gang member with capital murder in his death, the LA Times reports. The shooting of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw only three doors away from his home was the latest in a spate of killings that has shocked even Angelenos numbed by gang violence. Shaw's alleged killer,19, is a member of the Hispanic 18th Street Gang released from jail a day before the killing.

"That is what we are up against in this city, sociopaths like that who just got out of jail and within a day had a gun and in an instant took that young boy's life," said the city's police chief, who announced that a thousand new police officers are being hired to combat the problem. Shaw's mother, who was serving in Iraq when she learned of her son's murder, compared gang members to the terrorists she fought overseas.

Sources Los Angeles Times, CNN

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Students from Los Angeles High School arrive for the funeral of their friend, standout football player Jamiel Shaw, at the West Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles Tuesday, March 11, 2008. The 17-year-old...   (Associated Press)
A family member wears a button with the photo of teen football star Jamiel Shaw wearing his football jersey during a funeral service at the West Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 11,...   (Associated Press)
Family members of Jamiel Shaw Jr. react during funeral services on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 in Los Angeles. A reputed street gang member was charged Tuesday with murder as the killing of 17-year-old...   (Associated Press)
Los Angeles' Tenth Council District's council member Herb Wesson Jr.. second from left, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, at podium, and Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, far right, take...   (Associated Press)
A child runs past memorial messages and votive candles at a sidewalk memorial on the spot where 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr. was shot to death March 2 on South 5th Avenue in Los Angeles Thursday, March...   (Associated Press)
Jamiel Shaw Sr, mourns the shooting death of his son Jamiel Shaw Jr., a 17-year-old Los Angeles High School football star, during a vigil outside their home in Los Angeles. Police say Shaw was shot Sunday...   (Associated Press)
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