A 17-year-old boy was killed after a possible handmade firework malfunctioned in South Los Angeles, police said. The deadly incident just before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday on W. 84 Street near Figueroa, ...
The Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad continued its investigation Thursday into the death of a 17-year-old boy in a fireworks explosion in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Vermont Knolls.