Police and community work together to arrest a murder suspect in South L.A.
Venus Mason wasn’t wearing her uniform at the Los Angeles Police Department’s press conference outside the Starbucks on Crenshaw Boulevard. With her bright blouse, matching necklace and auburn-tipped dreadlocks, she looked more like the folks watching from the sidewalk than like her fellow police officers behind the microphones.
That seemed fitting to me, given Det. Mason’s role in the drama that brought us together to mark the arrest of a local man on a murder warrant.
This was no high-profile case, like the Grim Sleeper. The crime took place in Georgia, so nobody here knew the victim. The capture didn’t rely on DNA or generate much outside attention.
