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Two convicted for killing US teen over red shoes, shirt

LOS ANGELES, Oct 25, (APP/AFP) – Two Los Angeles-area gang members were found guilty of first-degree murder on Monday for killing a mentally disabled teen over his red shoes and shirt — a color affiliated with a rival gang. According to the prosecution, 19-year-old Tavin Price was gunned down in front of his mother near a car wash in the south Los Angeles neighborhood of Hyde Park. Kanasho Johns, 29 and Kevin Deon Johnson, 26, both members of the NeighborHood Crips gang, whose color is blue, were convicted by a jury for the May 2015 murder. Johns, who fired the four rounds that killed Price, was also convicted of felony possession of a firearm.