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The Homicide Report (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The Times' Ruben Vives reports from Saturday's funeral for Melody Ross, a 16-year-old Cambodian American teen who was shot and killed Friday, Oct. 30, in the 4400 block of East 10th Street in Long Beach while leaving her high school's...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Friends, family and dignitaries pay tribute to the Long Beach girl. Melody Ross, the Wilson High School honors student whose shooting death after a Long Beach football game touched off an outpouring of sympathy from around the country, was buried Saturday in Whittier.
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Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Daivion Davis and Tom Love Vinson have been arrested in the shooting and death of Melody Ross, a Long Beach, California high school student. Davion Davis - Tom Love Vinson On October 30th, Melody Ross was a bystander at a dance after a football game when shots rang out and Melody was hit. She died the same night in hospital. Davis and Vinson are both 16-years-old...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Sixteen years. Not long enough.Not long enough for Melody Ross to get her driver's license. Nor to maneuver the perils and promise of high school, much less college. Not long enough to figure out where life might take her. Nor actually to live it.She was gunned down on a Long Beach street, in front of her beloved Wilson High School, when the air was still suffused with the frolic of the...
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Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A 16-year-old male has been arrested in the shooting and death of Melody Ross. The unnamed suspect will remain nameless, at least for a while, due to his status as a minor. The following from the Long Beach Press Telegram : Updates as available. Melody Ross He will face charges connected with firing multiple rounds into a crowd of 400 to 500 people as the Wilson/Poly game...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
One week ago, 16-year-old Wilson High student Melody Ross was with her friends, watching the school's Homecoming football game. Last night the team observed a moment of silence in her honor, as Ross was gunned down minutes after she exited the Long Beach school's stadium. At last night's game students wrote MR on their cheeks, the team turned the school's "W" on their...
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The Homicide Report (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Tom Love Vinson and Daivion Davis, both 16-year-old black males, were charged Friday as adults in the killing of Melody Ross, a 16-year-old Cambodian American teen. Ross, an honors student at Wilson High in Long Beach, was leaving her school's...
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LongBeachReport.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
(Nov. 4, 2009) -- At an evening news conference covered live by LBReport.com with front page updating text, LBPD Interim Chief Billy Quach and Deputy Police Chief (Investigation Bureau) Bill Blair announced the arrest of two suspects in the Oct. 30 shooting death of Wilson High School student Melody Ross and the attempted murder (wounding) of two males ages 18 and 20. LBReport.com photoThe...
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Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Melody Ross was a 16-year-old honor student at a homecoming game in Long Beach, California. Woodrow Wilson High School played Polytechnic High and Wilson lost the game. Shots range out and Melody was hit. Updates as available. Melody Ross (L) and friend Tori Rowles As the stadium empties after the homecoming game against long-time rival Polytechnic High School, a...
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SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Channel 5's Lynette Romero had a report at the top of the hour from Wilson High School in Long Beach, where the distraught parents of 16-year-old Melody Ross spoke to...
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LongBeachReport.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Dear Melody :) I love you so muchhhh. You were the first person I met at Wilson b4 school even started ! We met @ Freshmen orintation & were in the same small group. We were the only girls :) & right next to me is you ,in the yearbook :) I'm so glad because I don't anybody else by me but you next to me :)the impact you had on everybody at the school is amazing, the impact you had on your family,...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
It's been a week of mourning in Long Beach after the death of 16-year-old Melody Ross between last week's Homecoming football game and dance at Wilson High School. She was an innocent bystander when two alleged 16-year-old gangmembers shot bullets into a crowd meant for two men who were wounded. Those teens were identified today--Tom Love Vinson and Daivion Davis--because they were charged...
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The Homicide Report (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Melody Ross, a 16-year-old Cambodian teen, was shot and killed Friday, Oct. 30, in the 4400 block of East 10th Street in Long Beach as she left Wilson High School's homecoming football game, authorities said. The following is an excerpt...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Friday night's shooting jolts parents who consider campus to be the safest school in Long Beach. Mourning students at Long Beach's Wilson High School gathered Monday by the pavement where classmate Melody Ross was shot after the homecoming football game. Leaving handwritten notes to Melody and her family, the teenagers lit candles and shed tears as they remembered the bubbly 16-year-old....