First Place
barbara davidson
The Los Angeles Times
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"L.A.'s Shooting Season"
Lee Benton was one of two teenage gunshot victims who walked through the front door of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. They walked through the front door at 2:25 a.m., no EMTs, no police. The hospital staff calls it the homeboy ambulance service: patients brought in by friends with injuries often from gang shootings. Lee said he was walking home from a party and thought it would be safer to cut through an alley, where he was shot. In the last five years, two of her cousins have been killed in street shootings. Lee had heard the gun but didn't see the shooter. The bullet, he said, burned through his gut. Lucky to have survived the attack, he lies on his bed at home waiting for his Mother, Connie, to clean his wound.
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