PASADENA — A vigil is planned late Thursday to honor the life of a 49-year-old Pasadena man, sheriff’s employee and community volunteer believed to have been killed by a stray bullet on Christmas Day.
The candlelight vigil for Victor McClinton will take place at 6 p.m. on the steps of Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Avenue, said Head Coach Jymm Adams of the Pasadena-based nonprofit Brotherhood Community Youth Sports League, which McClinton founded.
“Victor was an outstanding person,” Adams said.
McClinton was fatally shot shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday in the 1900 block of Newport Avenue, according to Pasadena police.
He was believed to be an innocent bystander killed by a bullet intended for another man, who police described as a gang associate, who was driving a vehicle along the sidewalk where McClinton was walking, investigators said.
The 24-year-old man was also struck by the gunfire but expected to survive his injuries, officials said.
In addition to founding the Brotherhood Community Youth Sports League, McClinton worked for the past 18 years as a law enforcement technician for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
No suspect description was available.