{"id":868032,"date":"2026-06-15T03:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868032\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T03:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:10:14","slug":"15-year-old-shot-killed-near-chick-fil-a-in-cerritos-identified-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868032\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old shot, killed near Chick-fil-A in Cerritos identified \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Medical Examiner identified a teenage boy who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/cerritos-shooting-death-investigation\/3904013\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot and killed near a Chick-fil-A in Cerritos<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The boy, identified Sunday as 15-year-old Darnell Jones, was shot close to the fast food restaurant located in the Los Cerritos Center on Gridley Road at around 4 p.m. Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Darnell was taken to a hospital, where he died. No one else was shot, officials said. Details about what led up to the shooting or a possible suspect were unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Video from Saturday showed the area near the Chick-fil-A blocked off with yellow tape, with multiple LASD SUVs and deputies at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Family members told NBC Los Angeles that Darnell was the youngest of eight children and was going to be a junior at Magnolia High School in Anaheim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Darnell was a good boy. He was just a kid, and he got murdered by another kid,&#8221; said his father, Tyrell Jones.<\/p>\n<p>His father was holding onto a positive moment he shared with his son at the same shopping center about a year-and-a-half ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a good memory with my son at that mall, buying him some shoes for basketball,&#8221; Jones said, later adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s already an ugly debbie downer situation and negative, and I&#8217;m just grasping and searching for anything positive I can use to be strong for my family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says he hopes more parents will teach their children how to love.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to say, we need more community. We need more love. We need to teach our youngins, it&#8217;s OK not to be OK,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact LASD&#8217;s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Medical Examiner identified a teenage boy who was shot and killed near a Chick-fil-A in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":868033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,55668,2961,224,5337],"class_list":["post-868032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-cerritos","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116751933778156974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}