Homicide Report > Christopher Moreland, 19
Christopher Moreland, 19
Died May 18, 2010 at 10:24 p.m.
Christopher Moreland, a 19-year-old black man, was fatally shot Tuesday, May 18, near Myrtle Avenue and East Buckthorn Street in Inglewood, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.
Moreland was standing on the sidewalk Tuesday evening when an unknown assailant on foot approached and shot him, said Inglewood Homicide Det. Loyd Waters, who is handling the investigation.
Authorities were called and Moreland was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he died at 10:24 p.m., according to coroner's records.
Investigators do not have any leads on a suspect at this time.
Anyone with information about the death of Christopher Moreland is asked to contact Det. Waters at (310) 412-5246.
— Sarah Ardalani


20 reader comments about Christopher Moreland
mann chris... imma truelyy miss you iHate walken down that street nowen you got killed riteee there buht when i deww pass your candles best beleave you leave a smile on my face when i think ov are memories we had together... imma hate passing yo house and you being outside telling me im playing LOL buht your one ov my angels noww and imma always love you and your gunna 4ever be in my heart see you when i get there love yours truelyy your xx girlfriendd..
myy heart & prayers go out o2 your family!
May 24, 2010 at 9:26 a.m.
Is this another brother lost to Inglewood 13 vs N'hood Piru Gang War that has claimed many lives of young man in the last couple of months ? I lived in Inglewood for over 30 years . . . and as of last couple of years Inglewood City has been getting worse and worse . . . I live on the Hyde Park side by the Centinela Park and I swear in the last 2 weeks I heard at least 7 shootings around my block . . . and the scary thought is that they are shooting at each other in the middle of the afternoon with kids playing outside . . . What is happening to Inglewood City ??? Every couple you of blocks you drive and see candles and flowers caused someone got shot and killed . . ??? This is not normal ! What are these IDIOTS fighting for ???
May 24, 2010 at 1:59 p.m.
the Answer to ur question is nothing.They don't even known why they're dying or fighting..just another young brother losing his life behind some dumb-@#$%..at the end of the day we live,then we die over bul@#%!t.. R.I.P. young brother...I pray change will come sooner than later..I moved away from Inglewood,California as a whole to escape that nonsense!
May 24, 2010 at 11:25 p.m.
Everyone I talk to from Inglewood, hispanic and black, say its bad, if its not the gangs that have really crossed over into racial killings, because many of the people being killed have nothing to do with gangs, that is why the feds should step in. I think its a little deeper that gang violence.
May 25, 2010 at 12:25 a.m.
I lived in Inglewood as a young child and I loved it. Now I live in Arkansas and have been day dreaming about moving back to my Inlgewood, but when I read these stories of all these kids getting killed, it really makes me think twice about moving back. This is sad because these kids have their whole life ahead of them and like some of the readers have mentioned, why are they fighting? So they can look cool and leave some kind of tough reputation? "Oh I'm so macho, I killed someone, then I don't mind getting killed for the barrio." The only thing you kids become are statistics, not some kind of idol or respected person! You get your 15 minutes of fame and then what? It's over. Just stop! Please. You don't have to keep doing this. You have choices. Get up and do something you really like that will benefit you and your community and your family. Think about your mothers......
May 25, 2010 at 6:53 a.m.
Senseless and ridiculous. All these young men losing their lives over NOTHING! I dont care if they are black or latinos. It has to stop. They are making it bad for them and even for all the kids. To the point where I wont even let my child ride his bike outside.
May 25, 2010 at 9:04 p.m.
You wanna change the problems??? VOTE GUILTY when you are on a jury. The police arent making things up. Stop blaming them for all the problems.
May 27, 2010 at 11:47 a.m.
Chris was a student of mine and when i found out he was murdered it really hurt my heart. My prayers go out to his family who i know is suffering right now. This is very senseless because i think this could have been my 19year-old son.reast in paridise Chris
May 27, 2010 at 12:10 p.m.
Chris to see you go from a boy to a young man was a blessing. We will be celebrating your life today as I help Tyren and Jai'Lynn to understand what has happened. We will forever keep your memory alive. And I will make sure your mom and little sister and brother are ok.
Chris was a great kid. It's sad that our young men who don't have any gang affiliations are often the ones caught in the bs of gangs. I too am a resident of Inglewood as well. So this is close to home because it happened to my friends son and around the corner and now I can't allow my son to walk through the neighborhood for fear of these gangs thinking the same thing
May 29, 2010 at 10:09 a.m.
chris was a very loveable person to know. i call him my son, and i will misshim trully with his loving smile calling me moms.i wont say goodbye ill say see you later son.you have completed gods work here on earth,and hes(god)called you home to rest.we will always love you chris.
May 30, 2010 at 12:06 a.m.
i knew chris and he was a good kid. us as parents need to get together and save our kids.i have three,my 18year old i still go through his phone,and search his room.thats what every parent needs to do.dont condon what ur child does.i tell my kids friends, parents if mine act up woop them call me and ill do the same. u see the neighbors down the street and around the corner know ur kids better then u. i know b-cuz i ask about my own to people where i live. and i have no problem turning mines in for doing wrong/r finding sumthing in my house. we all need to do the same. dont sit back and let our kids get away with nothing.we can change if we try, so start searching the rooms, if they dont like what goes on in ur house tell them(ur kids) to hit that door.and that goes for all my kids.we have to start sumwhere.rip my sweet son chris. lets clean up these streets .amen
May 30, 2010 at 6:21 p.m.
— A.PARENT; while you are doing a fine job of parenting, all it takes is a couple of other parents not to do their own. Those are the parents that produce the gangsters and thugs that terrorize society.
As part of an real effort to clean up these killing field neighborhoods, parents who don't do their job supervising their kids need to be held responsible for it. And if they cant do the job, then the "proto-criminal" child must be taken away and put into a better environment.
All we are doing right now is taking care of the symptoms (wasting time and scarce tax payer money) and not going after the core rot and fixing that.
May 31, 2010 at 8:30 a.m.
It's really funny how the people of INGLEWOOD come down on the ING-Police Dept for fighting the crime in our city by making it TOUGH for these criminals to operate, but the same people DON'T complain when the same gangs are killing the innocent and the NOT-so innocent... WE NEED TO SUPPORT THE POLICE DEPT or but-out of there gang harrasments. I would rather be harrassed by the ING-PD anyday than to be shot by and enemy that I didn't know I had WHO I probably shared a couple of classes with at ING-High with an AK-47... The HYPOCRACY!!!
June 1, 2010 at 4:59 p.m.
Damned if you do. Damned if you don't. The social, economic, and fundamental complexities of this problem are too deeply rooted.
June 2, 2010 at 5:18 p.m.
This is to Common Sense: I grew up in the Rolling Sixties neighborhood. I do not gangbang and I have seen the police come into our neighborhood and tag on the walls to make it look like rival gangs are doing it, Ive seen the police accuse innocent young men in my neighborhood of crimes they did not commit. Sorry to say but the police is just as bad as the street gangs, they cannot be trusted. They are human too and lie like everyone else!!!!!! Its the police setting everything into motion so our people can eliminate themselves, blacks and latinos. We need to break this vicious cycle.
June 8, 2010 at 8:51 a.m.
Growing up in the hood-
Whatever makes you feel better about displacing where the blame really should go. It's amazing the amount of conspiracy theories some people will buy into just in order to skirt accountability for their neighborhoods.
June 8, 2010 at 12:39 p.m.
California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board
P.O. Box 3035
Sacramento, CA 95812-3035
1-800-955-0045
www.governmentclaims.ca.gov
Request an "Information and Claim Form".... for all the wrong that the state and appropriate subdivisions/cities have prevented you from stopping and failed to prevent the same.
When the state prevents/chills personal self defense state in turn provides for the thugs free reign of terror. That providing is responsible for a very large amount of wrongdoing. So claim your rewards for the states incompetence today. You only have so many days to make a claim before you will be denied for late filing.
Police defend the crime scene in the aftermath when it is too late to prevent the crime.
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that you have an individual right to protect yourself... so do it!
Aug. 21, 2010 at 10:05 p.m.
Missing u sooo much!!!!!! May your soul rest n peace keep watching over your family & daughter ........... Going to keep living off memories until we meet again.. Love ya Chris
April 3, 2011 at 5:45 p.m.
Chrise i l0ve and i miss yo sexy ass. i ran into bruce yesterday in hawthorne and it bought back old memories or u always comin to my house eatin up all my food! lol Man those were the days. its almost been a year since ive seen or touched you! and im sad but knowing ur in a better place makes me happy. Love u !!
Until we meet again, your truly ! Sho Sho.
May 14, 2011 at 7:31 p.m.
It's been a year, and you are still so missed. The blessing that you left your mom the daughter whom will never meet her dad, but believe that she will know all about you.
It’s been real hard for your mom, but we are trying to keep her strong. But your legacy is helping her each day.....
I love u Chris and we miss you so much.
May 29, 2011 at 1:43 a.m.
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