Kids in gangs
Families at a loss over kids in gangs
Yakima Herald-Republic
Dozens of somber young men surrounded Lala Perez, their wet eyes fixed on the pile of fresh dirt at her feet.
Any one of them could have been her son.
But Leo Perez wasn’t there with his homies. He didn’t hear his mother’s plea, the one he’d ignored so many times.
“If you could only look into a mother’s heart and see the sorrow, you wouldn’t keep behaving the way you do,” she said, her voice breaking. “I want this to serve as a lesson, an experience.
“You need to change for your own good.”
It was too late for her son. He’d just been buried.
Leo was shot in the chest May 18 in an alley less than a block from his home on North Third Street. The 20-year-old died the following night.
Subscribe by RSS...
