Brian Jasso, a 15-years-old teenager, was delivering newspapers to get money for a present for his sister and to take his girlfriend out on a date. He was in the back of Erik Campeano’s car, his mom’s boyfriend, who was driving him to start the delivery route.
Campeano offered Jasso the money, so he didn’t have to work, but he said he wanted to work and earn his money. It was about 6:45 in the morning when they stopped at a traffic sign. A car behind them started flashing their lights for them to pull over, but Campeano felt something wasn’t right and drove away.
Someone from the other car then leaned out the window and fired a gun. Campeano pulled Jasso down onto his lap, ducked and kept driving. The vandals kept shooting for some time and then stopped for a moment. When Jasso looked up, he got hit in the back of his head.
Campeano did not realize Jasso got shot until they got into a gas station and noticed he wasn’t responding. “I tried to protect him in that moment, but I couldn’t. I don’t know why he got up. We had made it, but he got up, and that’s when they killed him,” Campeano told the Tribune. “He didn’t have my blood, but he was my best friend.”
A worker at the gas station insisted him not to move the boy and called the police. Jasso was pronounced dead at the scene.
Jasso’s mother, Carmen Manzano, thinks witnesses would be too afraid to speak. She wanted to give a message to the murderers, saying, “I hope the person who did this sees this so they could know whose life they took. He was a person who had dreams.”
Police are investigating if the case has anything to do with a different incident that happened in the same neighborhood and left two people dead and one wounded.
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