16-year-old Wilson High honors student Melody Ross was the unintended victim of a drive-by shooting outside her Long Beach school in October 2009. Today, her killer, 18-year-old gang member Tom Love Vinson, was sentence to 155 years and six months to life in state prison for the teen's death. more ›

Two female Wilson High School students have been arrested on charges of witness intimidation in the case of Melody Ross, their onetime classmate who was gunned down on the campus last fall after the Homecoming football game, reports the LA Times. more ›

The family of Melody Ross, the popular 16-year-old honors student and athlete who was fatally shot by gangmembers while attending her high school Homecoming last October, has filed a claim both against the Long Beach Unified School District and the city, reports LBPost.com. "The cliam at least in part holds the school district accountable on the grounds that 'respondent [LBUSD] failed to provide adequate security precautions for the large-scale event,'" said the local news blog. The district has rejected the claim and lawyers will next file a lawsuit. A similar claim was filed against the city for, in part, “allowing the Long Beach Police Department to abandon its assignment at the game.” more ›

One week ago, 16-year-old Wilson High student Melody Ross was with her friends, watching the school's Homecoming football game. Last night the team observed a moment of silence in her honor, as Ross was gunned down minutes after she exited the Long Beach school's stadium. At last night's game students wrote MR on their cheeks, the team turned the school's "W" on their helmets upside down to make an "M" in their classmates honor, and attendees faced upped security, according to the Press-Telegram. Earlier that day in a Long Beach court Tom Love Vinson and Daivion Davis, both 16-year-old gang members, found themselves charged as adults; the Deputy DA said the charges are as a result of the "seriousness of the crime" and the fact that it was gang-related, notes LA Now. Ross was an innocent bystander; two young men who were wounded "may have been the intended targets." more ›

It's been a week of mourning in Long Beach after the death of 16-year-old Melody Ross between last week's Homecoming football game and dance at Wilson High School. She was an innocent bystander when two alleged 16-year-old gangmembers shot bullets into a crowd meant for two men who were wounded. Those teens were identified today--Tom Love Vinson and Daivion Davis--because they were charged as adults, according to the LA Times. more ›

Gunfire erupted outside Wilson High School in Long Beach at around 10 o'clock Friday night as about 200 students were inside the building enjoying their Homecoming dance. The bullets took the life of 16-year-old Melody Ross, a "popular honors student and athlete," and the "daughter of Cambodian immigrants," who died in hospital half an hour after the shooting, according to LA Now. Ross and friends had just left the Homecoming football game when the shots were fired. Police are working to determine who killed Ross and wounded two young men, but "said they have no suspects and no motive," and "don't have a description or many leads to go on." more ›