“I don’t want my son’s death to be in vain. Later that evening, authorities summoned her to a hospital, where she found her son brain dead and barely surviving on life support. Lisa Lewis heard about seven gunshots, something not uncommon, sounding like they came from down the street. Jamal Lewis was supposed to meet his mother at her home near Hammond and Summit to watch football, like he did every Monday, on Oct. She and her relatives had just held services for her son, 24-year-old Jamal Lewis, on Friday, the day before Moreno was killed. “And he wasn’t doing nothing, never seen it coming, just like my son.” “My heart is really breaking for this woman whose 13-year-old boy was just killed,” said lifelong Pasadena Resident Lisa Lewis, 57. Memorial candles were lined up Sunday morning near the Pasadena home of a 13-year-old boy killed by a stray bullet while he was playing video games in his bedroom on Saturday night, Nov. Metal bars guard the window of the yellow house where the boy lived, in the middle of a tree-lined block populated by older homes on North Raymond Avenue, a major thoroughfare. “I can’t even go out front with my dog anymore because I’m afraid I’m going to get shot.” She and other nearby residents said there have been numerous shootings in the neighborhood over the past several months. The family has lived in the neighborhood for at least 15 years, Gonzalez said.
The boy lived with his parents, two brothers and a sister. Pasadena City Councilman John Kennedy said he was told the teen was a straight-A student. Neighbors described the boy as an intelligent teenager who liked to play soccer.