{"id":446150,"date":"2010-03-19T01:34:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T05:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fb9f988970c"},"modified":"2010-03-19T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:57:29","slug":"gang-member-sentenced-in-killing-of-echo-park-boy-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/446150","title":{"rendered":"Gang member sentenced in killing of Echo Park boy, 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parolee and documented gang member was sentenced Thursday to 93 years to life in state prison for the 2009 slaying of a 4-year-old boy in Echo Park.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fb9f461970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roberto Lopez\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fb9f461970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fb9f461970c-250wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 250px;\"><\/img><\/a> Howard Astorga, 26, was <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/02\/echo-park-slaying.html\" >convicted in February<\/a> of the killing of <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide\/post\/roberto-lopez-jr\/\" >Roberto Lopez Jr<\/a>, who was hit by a stray bullet as he walked with his sister and cousins to a park in the 1200 block of Court Street, prosecutors said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Astorga had intended to shoot a rival gang member, police said. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The crime sparked community outrage. More than 500 people attended <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2009\/jan\/24\/local\/me-child-shot24\" >Roberto&#8217;s funeral<\/a>, where Cardinal Roger M. Mahony conducted a Mass in Spanish.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Photo: <em>A photo of Roberto Lopez Jr. that was part of a memorial erected at the site where he was killed. Credit: Lopez family<br \/><\/br><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parolee and documented gang member was sentenced Thursday to 93 years to life in state prison for the 2009 slaying of a 4-year-old boy in Echo Park. Howard Astorga, 26, was convicted in February of the killing of Roberto Lopez Jr, who was hit by a stray bullet as he walked with his sister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446150","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\/4622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}