'If they would've gotten there when they got that first call and things would've ended, Joshua would've come home,' Javiline Montes said of the sheriff's department's response to the street takeover
The family of a 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed on Sunday, August 14, at a street takeover in Willowbrook is demanding answers about what they say was a slow response by authorities to save the teen.
"My grandma started calling him and the cops were the ones that answered and they told me that he was in critical condition in the hospital," Jaylene Montes, the victim's cousin, told CBSLA. The neighbor also said that the street takeovers have been happening on her street every weekend since Memorial Day, and that the authorities were slow to respond the night Joshua was shot, even after she called 911.
On Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore talked about the teen's death during the weekly police commission meeting to illustrate the dangers that come with these illegal car sideshows that simply move into a different communities when police crack down on them.
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