Crenshaw Basketball Star Killed In Shooting

LOS ANGELES — A 16-year-old boy was shot to death in South Los Angeles, authorities said Sunday.

Officers responding to a shots-fired call about 11:50 p.m. Saturday in the area of 74th Street and Western Avenue located Quincy Reese Jr., suffering from at least one gunshot wound, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Paramedics pronounced the boy dead at the scene, LAPD Norma Eisenman told City News Service.
Reese, a star basketball player at Crenshaw High School, was planning to go out for the football team and maintained a 3.4 grade point average, the Los Angeles Times reported.

"He was a great outgoing personality," Ed Waters, the Crenshaw High boys' basketball coach told the Times.

Reese's father, Quincy Reese Sr., said in an interview with the paper that "my world changed" when his son was born and that he was going to be an "outstanding athlete." He described his son as a gentleman who loved his basketball teammates and was not one to back down from a challenge.

He said his son had been with him all day Saturday before being dropped off at a party where his teammates would be. Reese Sr. said he was waiting to pick up him from the event.

The Times reported that the party was being held at an old motorcycle club in the Manchester neighborhood.

Neither a suspect description nor a possible motive were available, Eisenman said.

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