Parents seek justice after their teen daughter is killed in Long Beach shooting

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Parents seek justice after their teen daughter is killed in Long Beach shooting
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The parents of a 17-year-old girl are seeking answers after she was shot and killed while walking home from work in Long Beach last Tuesday night.

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Mar. 26, Ana Morales said her daughter, Brianna Soto, was walking home from work at the McDonalds a mile from their apartment on Lewis Avenue and 11th Street.Morales said that she, her mother, her two small children heard gunshots outside.She tried calling her daughter and a young man answered, but she said she didn’t understand his English. She checked her daughter’s location saw that it said she was outside.

When she ran out, she said she found her daughter lying on the ground bleeding from her head. She didn’t know if she could hold her or if it was going to make her injuries worse.Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more. Here's your go-to source for today's LA news.Her family said police haven’t found anyone who saw anything, not even the young man who answered her phone that night.

Her father, Pavel Soto, said they don’t know if it was intentional or random, but they want justice because she was a good girl, a good daughter. Brianna was just months away from graduating Polytech High School. Her parents told NBCLA she was most excited for prom and being able to work full-time.said the girl was with a group in a stolen car, when one fired a gun, hitting the girl in her lower body. They dropped her off down the street and called 9-1-1.Anyone with information is asked to contact Homicide Detectives Ethan Shear or Chasen Contreras at 570-7244.

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