{"id":295048,"date":"2010-02-08T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128777830b2970c"},"modified":"2010-02-08T17:55:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:55:43","slug":"gang-interventionist-fatally-shot-after-confronting-tagger-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295048","title":{"rendered":"Gang interventionist fatally shot after confronting tagger, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Crips gang member, who police said transformed himself by working to\u00a0steer\u00a0others away from lives of violence, was fatally shot after he confronted a tagger in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles police said Monday.<\/p>\n

Ronald Lamonte Barron, 40, was leaving the Cottage Bar in the 5000 block of West Pico Boulevard<\/a> about 9 p.m.\u00a0Sunday with his girlfriend when he noticed a tagger applying graffiti to a nearby wall, police said.<\/p>\n

Barron\u00a0confronted the\u00a0tagger, who pulled out a pistol and fired once, hitting Barron in the chest.<\/p>\n

Barron had once been a Mansfield Crips gang member but had made a successful transition to gang outreach and intervention work, authorities said. Barron continued to use his former gang name, "Looney" and worked for Amer-I-Can, a gang-intervention program founded by Football Hall of Fame member Jim Brown. Barron was known for his\u00a0gang outreach work\u00a0in the L.A. County jails.<\/p>\n

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A former Crips gang member, who police said transformed himself by working to\u00a0steer\u00a0others away from lives of violence, was fatally shot after he confronted a tagger in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles police said Monday. Ronald Lamonte Barron, 40, was leaving the Cottage Bar in the 5000 block of West Pico Boulevard about 9 p.m.\u00a0Sunday with his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}