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Mother of man murdered in San Pedro bar says accused killer should have been in jail

This is a truly awful story about how Gascon refused to file a felony against an admitted gang member arrested by LAPD with a loaded firearm, leading to her immediate release from jail. Two months later, the gang member committed a mass shooting in a San Pedro bar, killing one and wounding two others. My heart goes out to the grieving mother, who now knows her son’s death was preventable.

This is yet another example of the deadly consequences of Gascon’s reckless, pro-criminal policies. It’s time for a DA who will treat gun crimes seriously.

‘The system is horrible.’ Mother of man murdered in San Pedro bar says accused killer should have been in jail
LA prosecutors decided not file felony gun possession charges in an arrest two months before Tyrone Tyars was murdered, and two others were wounded
By Eric Leonard • Published June 6, 2024
NBC4 Los Angeles

The 18-year-old woman accused of murdering a man and wounding two others in a shooting at a bar in San Pedro in January had been arrested months earlier with a loaded gun, but the LA County District Attorney’s Office decided against filing a felony charge that could have carried jail time, according to records from police and prosecutors.

“It’s terrible. The system is horrible,” said Ira McGrady, the mother of the man murdered, Tyrone Tyars, after learning that the person accused of killing her son had been jailed about three months before the shooting.

She was released. they didn’t look at it,” McGardy said of prosecutors’ decision not to pursue the most serious charge.

“They just threw it under the rug,” she said. “I’m not throwing this under the rug. That’s my son.”

Read the full article here.