An 18-year-old black man was shot near his home in Los Angeles on Saturday, making him the third black man killed in five days by the police in Southern California—and people want answers, according to the Associated Press.
Carnell Snell Jr. was a passenger in a vehicle with paper license plates that got pulled over by the LAPD on Saturday afternoon. The driver didn’t pull over right away, but when he did, he, Snell and at least one other passenger got out and fled.
While the driver got away from the scene of the crime, Snell was shot while trying to go around the back of his house. People have been protesting all weekend, wanting to know the names of the officers involved and why Snell couldn’t have lived.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable told the AP, “We don’t want to see a cover-up. We don’t want to see a whitewash. We have a family that’s grieving. We have a community that’s grieving.”
An LAPD spokesman told The Los Angeles Times that a handgun had been recovered from the scene of the shooting, but no other information has been released.
“At the end of the day, the cops came and shot my brother. Killed my brother,” Trenell Snell, Carnell’s 17-year-old sister, told CBS News.
Snell’s death followed the fatal shooting of Alfred Olango by police near San Diego last Tuesday, and the fatal tasering of Reginald Thomas in Pasadena on Friday.