{"id":663760,"date":"2010-02-13T10:55:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T15:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8979c8d970b"},"modified":"2010-02-13T12:14:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T17:14:58","slug":"teen-tagger-accused-of-killing-gang-interventionist-charged-as-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/663760","title":{"rendered":"Teen tagger accused of killing gang interventionist charged as adult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L.A. prosecutors have charged a teen tagger accused of killing a gang interventionist as an adult. <\/p>\n<p>Mark Anthony Villasenor, 16, is accused of fatally shooting 40-year-old Ronald Barron, who confronted Villasenor for tagging a wall in the <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide\/neighborhood\/mid-city\/\" title=\"mid-city homicides los angeles\">Mid-City area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barron was leaving a bar with<br \/>\nhis girlfriend when he noticed a tagger defacing a wall on Pico Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Los Angeles Police Department said surveillance video from nearby<br \/>\nbusinesses captured the Feb. 6 killing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide\/search\/?address=5000+W.+Pico\">5000 block of West Pico<br \/>\nBoulevard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> The footage appeared to<br \/>\nshow a gunman wearing dark-colored clothing arguing with Barron in<br \/>\nfront of &quot;numerous witnesses,&quot; LAPD detectives said.<\/p>\n<p> His slaying stunned colleagues at Amer-I-Can, where Barron had worked for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe loss was also felt at City Hall and LAPD headquarters, where<br \/>\nofficials rely on gang interventionists like Barron to help reduce the<br \/>\ngrip of gangs in some neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shelby Grad<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide-report\/map\/\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maptease\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a845c3e0970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a845c3e0970b-640wi\" style=\"width: 620px;\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.A. prosecutors have charged a teen tagger accused of killing a gang interventionist as an adult. Mark Anthony Villasenor, 16, is accused of fatally shooting 40-year-old Ronald Barron, who confronted Villasenor for tagging a wall in the Mid-City area. Barron was leaving a bar with his girlfriend when he noticed a tagger defacing a wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MFO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}