Original Article 13-Year-old 8th Grader Shot Dead by LAPD In Los Angeles, a 13-year-old African-American boy has died after being shot 10 times by police. The unarmed eighth-grader was shot dead while driving a stolen car. Police initially claimed Devon Brown was a gang member but it later emerged that he attended a magnet school for gifted children. Following the shooting, the Los Angeles mayor called on the police department to quickly adopt a new policy on shooting at moving vehicles. The shooting has increased tension between the city's African-American community and the police. Danny Bakewell, president of the Brotherhood Crusade said, "They have killed women, they have killed black men wholesale and now they are killing our children."