Alfredo Antonio Carrera, a 24-year-old Latino, was fatally shot on August 14, 2019, in the Florence-Firestone area of South Los Angeles. Carrera, who was about to become a first-time father, was standing in his driveway around 7 p.m., talking to his childhood friend, Jose Antonio Flores Velazquez, a 24-year-old doctoral student in astrophysics at UC Irvine. Flores Velazquez had returned to his old neighborhood to drop off a gift for Carrera's upcoming baby shower. As the two friends conversed, a
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