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Sawan Mock could barely speak Tuesday morning as she pleaded for someone to come forward with information about the fatal shooting of her 7-year-old son.
Police on Tuesday said they had no eyewitnesses and few clues in the killing of Taalib Pecantte, who was shot at more than 20 times while sitting in a car Dec. 2 in the 1900 block of South
Corning Street. He died from his injuries a day later.
Mock, 28, had just returned from a coin laundry about 9 p.m. with a 31-year-old male friend when three to four men unleashed a barrage of gunfire directed at their car, said Lt. John Radke.
“We know that these men then went to a waiting car,” Radke said.
Radke said the attackers were probably gang members and that at least two gunmen shot at the child and two adults in the car. Police said Mock and her friend received graze wounds.
LAPD Det. Rolando Rodriguez asked for any and all tips, and urged even people who have heard a rumor to call.
City Councilman Herb Wesson said he planned to ask the council to increase the reward amount to $75,000.
Anyone with information is asked to call LAPD’s West Bureau Homicide at (213) 382-9470.
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