Los Angeles police are searching for leads after Quincy Reese, 16, was shot and killed in Manchester Square. He is believed to have been a bystander.
The cheering crowds that filled the bleachers at Crenshaw High School boys’ basketball games would have seen Quincy Reese giving his all, fighting for rebounds against teenagers taller than him.
The Crenshaw High student was attending a party with his basketball teammates when he was fatally shot on Saturday night. The event venue at 77 Lounge was rented Saturday night by a parent for a party that was promoted on social media, drawing a large crowd that flowed out onto Western Avenue, said Maurice Cooper, one of the owners of the location.The parents who rented the space had said they would be present, according to Cooper, who later learned the event was advertised to students from local high schools, and teens were being charged $3 to go in.
Quincy was a committed athlete who hit the gym after practice, played baseball, planned to try out for the football team, and still maintained a 3.4 grade-point average, teammates said., 18, a former teammate, said he distinctly remembers meeting Quincy, whom he described as a dedicated player ready to push his teammates — and still crack a joke.
“He’d be down there throwing elbows, trying to get that rebound, sprinting to the end,” Robinson said. “He’d be doing everything that nobody else was doing, trying to get that ball.”Ed Waters, Crenshaw High’s boys basketball coach, said he’d planned to tap Quincy and one of his childhood friends to be captains next season.
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