The Toberman Neighborhood Center has strived to end gang violence before it even begins.
Sunday's mass shooting at San Pedro's Peck Park hit home for local non-profits working on gang intervention.
Jones works with at-risk youth for the Toberman Neighborhood Center, a trusted source in the San Pedro area for more than a century. The nonprofit provides safe passage walking for children, youth programs, one-on-one case management, community giveaway. The Gang Prevention and Intervention Team, Jones' staff, works throughout San Pedro as problem solvers.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, a dispute between two groups at a park's baseball diamond ended with eight gunshot victims, two of whom died at a hospital. Jones said that the shooting was the exact outcome they try so hard to prevent. "It's not something that they just make up," said Jones."More that they take the story and twist it. So, there are three sides to a story — this side, the left side and the middle. We just try to make sure that the wrong information doesn't get out."
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