NORTHRIDGE, Calif.—A second victim in the April 15 shooting of men who had been hired to paint over gang graffiti on the wall of a Northridge business has died, police said June 12.
The name of the victim was withheld pending notification of next of kin.
Jamal Jackson, 24, of Panorma City, was arrested April 16 in Ontario as a suspect in the shooting in the 19100 block of Parthenia Street, near Vanalden Avenue, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) reported.
Charges against Jackson have been updated by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office to include a second count of homicide, police said.
Jackson was being held without bail. He is slated to appear in the North Valley Superior Court on June 28, according to jail records.
Anyone with additional information about the shooting was asked to call Detective Gabe Bucknell of LAPD’s Valley Bureau Homicide at 818-374-1928.
