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Teen standing at bus stop fatally wounded on South Coast

An impromptu memorial has popped up at the Thousand Oaks intersection where a pro-Israeli demonstrator was fatally injured Sunday.
Lance Orozco
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KCLU
A teen waiting for a ride was fatally wounded in Oxnard Monday night.

14-year-old boy shot multiple times. He later died at a hospital.

There’s shock in a South Coast community over the shooting death of a teenager, who was apparently standing on a street waiting for a ride.

Oxnard Police investigators say Leonardo Gonzalez Jimenez was shot and killed as he stood at a bus stop waiting for a ride home from a relative.

It happened at around 7:45 Monday night in Oxnard. Police received a 911 call about someone being shot. When they arrived on the 1300 block of South C Street, they found the 14-year-old boy with multiple gunshot wounds.

The teen died a short time later at a hospital. The Oxnard Police Department’s Major Crimes Unit is working on the case. There’s no word on what might have led to the shooting.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.