LOS ANGELES : 2 Teen-Agers Charged in Slaying of Woman, 69
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Prosecutors filed murder charges Friday against two teen-agers accused of shooting a 69-year-old woman in the face when she refused to give up her purse.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Sandra Flannery said she will seek to try the 16- and 17-year-old defendants as adults for the slaying of Amalia Camlas Sison, who died Thursday of injuries suffered during the Monday morning attack at a Windsor Hills bus stop.
The youths, whose names were not released because of their ages, are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Inglewood Juvenile Court on murder and robbery charges, said district attorney’s spokeswoman Suzanne Childs.
Sison, a volunteer for the Foundation for the Junior Blind, was waiting for one of three buses that took her to and from the foundation’s campus when the 11:30 a.m. attack occurred at 54th Street and Alviso Avenue. The location is within view of the foundation’s 5300 Angeles Vista Boulevard campus. Prosecutors allege the older youth fired the shot that hit Sison in the eye.
Funeral services for Sison were pending, a spokeswoman for the foundation said.
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