Victim Identified as LAPD Officer's Son

Authorities identified a man fatally shot in the Crenshaw area as the 21-year-old son of a Los Angeles Police Department officer.

Stinson Ameer Brown was turned away from a party in the 4200 block of Don Tapia Place, near Stocker Street, about 11:45 p.m. Friday. As he walked away, four people attacked him and one of them shot him, according to police.

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Brown died at a hospital about an hour afterward, said Lt. Walter Teague of the Los Angeles Police Department's Southwest Station.

Brown was the son of Los Angeles Police Department Officer Stinson Brown, who mentors young black males in a non-profit organization called Brother to Brother L.A., which seeks to keep youth out of gangs, Officer Karen Rayner said.

The elder Brown is a training officer at the Los Angeles Police Academy, but had worked gang detail in the past, Rayner said.

Two suspects were taken into custody for questioning shortly after the shooting, and the investigation was continuing, said LAPD spokesman Richard French.