Ghettoside : a true story of murder in America

Leovy, Jill, author.

Book 2015

On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in Los Angeles every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case was assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shifted. Here is the k...

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ISBN:

9780385529990
9780385529983
0385529996
0385529988

Edition:

First edition

Description:

x, 366 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-356) and index

Contents:

pt. I. The plague : A circle of grief ; A killing ; Ghettoside ; School of catastrophe ; Clearance ; The circumstantial case ; Good people and knuckleheads ; Witnesses and the shadow system ; The notification
part II. The case of Bryant Tennelle : Son of the city ; "It's my son" ; The killing of Dovon Harris ; Nothing worse ; The assignment ; "Everybody know" ; The witness ; Baby man ; Mutual combat ; Witness welfare ; Lost souls ; The victims' side ; The opening ; "We have to pray for peace" ; The missing

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2013046367

Control Number:

2099796

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