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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: #2,540 - Gascón gave teen killer second chance — now she’s charged again
Description: The crime Shanice Amanda Dyer committed as a 17-year-old was as horrific as it was seemingly random.
She was a documented member of a Crips street gang faction in South L.A., according to appellate records from the case, and she wanted to help retaliate for killings by a rival group in August 2019.
The targets the gang chose at random were an expectant father, Alfredo Carrera, and his close friend Jose Antonio Flores Vasquez, an aspiring astrophysicist in UC Irvine’s doctorate program who was visiting Carrera to drop of...