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Ghettoside : a true story of murder in America / Jill Leovy. by Leovy, Jill. Spiegel & Grau, [2015] Call #: 364.1523 L588g Subjects Tennelle, Bryant -- Death and burial.   Davis, Devin Stephen -- Trials, litigation, etc.   Starks, Derrick Victor -- Trials, litigation, etc.   Skaggs, John.   Murder -- California -- Los Angeles.   Murder -- Investigation -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.   Homicide investigation -- California -- Los Angeles.   Trials (Murder) -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.   Men, Black -- Crimes against -- United States.   Men, Black -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions.   Youth, Black -- Crimes against -- United States.   Youth, Black -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions.   Gangs -- California -- Los Angeles.   Gangsters -- California -- Los Angeles.   Violence in men -- California -- Los Angeles.   Youth and violence -- California -- Los Angeles.   Criminal behavior -- California -- Los Angeles.   Victims of violent crimes -- United States.   Inner cities -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions.   Police-community relations -- California -- Los Angeles. ISBN:  9780385529983 (hc.) Alternate title:  Ghetto side : a true story of murder in America Edition:  First edition. Description:  x, 366 pages ; 25 cm Notes:  "Someone is killed nearly every day in Los Angeles County, murders mostly unnoticed by the city at large--and likely to remain unsolved by the police. The killing of Bryant Tennelle seemed destined to share that fate, until the case was assigned to John Skaggs, a relentless detective of unusal gifts whose investigation reveals much about the epidemic of American homicide and how it can be stopped." -- Page [1] of jacket. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-356) and index. Contents:  The plague. A circle of grief ; A killing ; Ghettoside ; School of catastrophe ; Clearance ; The circumstantial case ; Good people and knuckleheads ; Witnesses and the shadow system ; The notification -- The case of Bryant Tennelle. Son of the city ; "It's my son" ; The killing of Dovon Harris ; Nothing worse ; The assignment ; "Everybody know" ; The witness ; Baby man ; Mutual combat ; Witness welfare ; Lost souls ; The victims' side ; The opening ; "We have to pray for peace" ; The missing. Summary:  "A senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America. At 9:30pm on May 11, 2007, a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a completely innocent eighteen-year-old boy, Bryant Tennelle, is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of Black Americans murdered that year. His assailant runs down the street, jumps into an SUV, and vanishes, hoping to join the scores of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. In the 13 years before Bryant Tennelle's murder, an arrest was made for only 38 percent of the 2,677 murders of Black males in Los Angeles. Here is the story of the quintessential, but mostly ignored, American murder -- a "ghettoside" killing, one young Black man slaying another -- and the detectives who pursue justice for these forgotten victims. The two killers, Devin Stephen Davis (the shooter) was only 17 and the man who told him to shoot, Derrick Victor Starks, was 25. Both were members of the L.A. Blocc Crips gang and they did not know their victim -- they mistakenly thought he must be a member of a rival gang because of the type of baseball hat Bryant was wearing. The people who do most of the dying in South Los Angeles are Black men, the nations's number one crime victims. They are the people hurt most badly and most often, making up just 6% of the country's population but nearly 40% of those murdered in the United States each year. This is a detailed look at one of these devastating crimes by Los Angeles Times reporter Jill Leovy. It is a story of a police investigation and a community bonded in tragedy. Why murder happens in our disadvantaged inner cities -- and how this epidemic of killings might be stopped"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  True crime. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 364.1523 L588g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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