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Son Dies in his Mother's Arms After Being Shot at Car Wash on Crenshaw and Florence
June 01, 2015
"Mommy, I don't want to die" were the last words 19-year-old Tavin Price said after he was shot several times in front of his mother as she was cleaning her car Friday morning at the Express Car Wash on Florence Avenue near Crenshaw Boulevard.
One assailant had ordered him to take his "red Chucks off", referring to the red Chuck Taylor tennis shoes Tavin was wearing. But. Price, seriously injured in a car crash when he was three, was mentally disabled. The only way he knew to react was to run to his mother.
The pathetic attacker opened fire on Price, who was only 4-feet, 9 inches tall. Price died a short time later.
Today, June 1st, would have been Tavin's 20th birthday. Instead of a decorating a birthday cake, Tavin's older sister, Troya, 29 and Aisha, 20, were solemnly setting up a memorial - a poster with several photographs, "Happy Birthday" balloons, and dozens of candles - to him on a telephone pole near where he died. (Because he always wanted his name spelled with an "e" rather than an "a", the sisters wrote his name as "Tevin" on the tribute.)
At 6 p.m. tonight, there will be a vigil for him.
"My brother wasn't in a gang, he never hurt anybody, " said Troy
A street source said the shooter himself had on red tennis shoes, the color infamously associated with the more than 100 Bloods gangs in the county.
The street gang that dominates that area where Tavin was shot is the Rollin' 60s Crips. Some of them expressed their sympathies to the family.
"Some of the guys from 60s, they knew Tavin and they said this was a totally senseless killing," said another of his sisters, Runisha. "Tavin was stylish and walked around he neighborhood, but he wouldn't hurt a flea. Everyone around here knew that."
Sister Troya said last year Tavin had a summer job and she had never seen him happier.
"He said 'I don't want to just sit on a couch. I want to get another job. I don't want to be written off as nothing."
As the family got ready for tonight's vigil, sister Runisha thought about the person who killed him.
"Whoever shot my brother if he was trying to get some brownie points for his gang, instead he lost his entire soul."
June 01, 2015
"Mommy, I don't want to die" were the last words 19-year-old Tavin Price said after he was shot several times in front of his mother as she was cleaning her car Friday morning at the Express Car Wash on Florence Avenue near Crenshaw Boulevard.
One assailant had ordered him to take his "red Chucks off", referring to the red Chuck Taylor tennis shoes Tavin was wearing. But. Price, seriously injured in a car crash when he was three, was mentally disabled. The only way he knew to react was to run to his mother.
The pathetic attacker opened fire on Price, who was only 4-feet, 9 inches tall. Price died a short time later.
Today, June 1st, would have been Tavin's 20th birthday. Instead of a decorating a birthday cake, Tavin's older sister, Troya, 29 and Aisha, 20, were solemnly setting up a memorial - a poster with several photographs, "Happy Birthday" balloons, and dozens of candles - to him on a telephone pole near where he died. (Because he always wanted his name spelled with an "e" rather than an "a", the sisters wrote his name as "Tevin" on the tribute.)
At 6 p.m. tonight, there will be a vigil for him.
"My brother wasn't in a gang, he never hurt anybody, " said Troy
A street source said the shooter himself had on red tennis shoes, the color infamously associated with the more than 100 Bloods gangs in the county.
The street gang that dominates that area where Tavin was shot is the Rollin' 60s Crips. Some of them expressed their sympathies to the family.
"Some of the guys from 60s, they knew Tavin and they said this was a totally senseless killing," said another of his sisters, Runisha. "Tavin was stylish and walked around he neighborhood, but he wouldn't hurt a flea. Everyone around here knew that."
Sister Troya said last year Tavin had a summer job and she had never seen him happier.
"He said 'I don't want to just sit on a couch. I want to get another job. I don't want to be written off as nothing."
As the family got ready for tonight's vigil, sister Runisha thought about the person who killed him.
"Whoever shot my brother if he was trying to get some brownie points for his gang, instead he lost his entire soul."
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this is sad as hell