Jose Quezada was volunteering at a Summer Night Lights event in Wilmington when he was killed. Mayor Karen Bass called the shooting a 'horrific act of violence.'
A volunteer was shot and killed Thursday night at a Summer Night Lights event in Wilmington, a community program meant to curb gang violence, police said.
Quezada, 46, was struck by the gunfire. Paramedics with the Los Angeles Fire Department tried unsuccessfully to revive him.“This community leader lost his life to the very type of violence he was working so hard to prevent,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement. The shooting “is a tragic reminder that we must fight even harder to ensure that our communities have the tools that they need to stop this senseless violence.
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