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INGLEWOOD - Carmen Taylor Jones, mother of shooting victim Breon Taylor, holds on to her youngest son, Barrington Taylor, and youngest daughter, Bailey Taylor, during her funeral at Faithful Central Bible Church in Inglewood, Calif. on Tuesday, January 29, 2008. Breon Taylor died from a gunshot wound on January 20 after gang members allegedly crashed a crowded birthday party at the Lakewood Masonic Center in East Long Beach, Calif..

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This blog is a journal of Long Beach, California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It will be updated frequently with the pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram.

Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com

Breon Taylor, 15, remembered

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