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The city of Compton has put up $10,000, doubling the reward being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of whoever fatally shot a 23-year-old former star football player at Compton High School and wounded two others, including a teen, it was announced Wednesday.
On April 16, 2013, Iyshun Dionte Tornero Bennett was attending a birthday barbecue with family and friends in the front yard of a Compton residence at 1734 W. 151st St. when someone opened fire from the street with a semiautomatic rifle, spraying the crowd with about three dozen shots shortly before midnight.
Bennett died in surgery at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The two other victims, a 39-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, survived their injuries.
Sheriff’s homicide Detective Ralph Hernandez said the teenage victim sustained significant intestinal injuries and faces a prolonged recovery.
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said last month upon the renewal of the county’s $10,000 share of the reward that he hoped it would help bring “some sense of closure and justice to Iyshun Bennett’s family and friends.”
“The shock and senselessness of this tragedy has left Iyshun’s family devastated,” he said.
Bennett was preparing to pursue a career as an X-ray technician, Hernandez said. None of the partygoers had gang ties, he said.
Sheriff’s detectives believe someone in the neighborhood saw the suspects fleeing the area.
Anyone with information was asked to call Detective Ralph Hernandez at (323) 890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.
— City News Service