Ghettoside
A True Story of Murder in America
New York : One World, an imprint of Random House, 2015
Format: Book
Edition: 2015 Trade paperback edition.
Description: x, 366 pages ; 21 cm
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in Los Angeles every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case was assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shifted. Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential American murder -- one young black man slaying another -- and a determined crew of detectives whose creed was to pursue justice at all costs for its forgotten victims. Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a new lens into the great subject of murder in America -- why it happens and how the plague of killings might yet be stopped.
Contents:
Part I. The plague -- A circle of grief -- A killing -- Ghettoside -- School of catastrophe -- Clearance -- The circumstantial case -- Good people and knuckleheads -- Witnesses and the shadow system -- The notification -- Part II. The case of Bryant Tennelle -- Son of the city -- 'It's my son -- The killing of Dovon Harris -- Nothing worse -- The assignment -- "Everybody know" -- The witness -- Baby man -- Mutual combat -- Witness welfare -- Lost souls -- The victims' side -- The opening -- 'We have to pray for peace' -- The missing -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Tennelle, Bryant.
Murder -- California -- Los Angeles.
Homicide -- California -- Los Angeles.
Tennelle, Bryant.
Murder -- California -- Los Angeles.
Homicide -- California -- Los Angeles.
ISBN:
9780385529990
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Originally published in hardcover in 2015 by Spiegel & Grau.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-356) and index.
New York Times 100 Notable Books list, 2015
California Commonwealth Literature Club Gold Medal, 2015
Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2016
Audie Award Nonfiction Category Winner, 2016
The Ridenhour Book Prize, 2016
National Book Critics Circle General Nonfiction Category Finalist, 2015
PEN Center USA Award for Research Nonfiction, 2016
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-356) and index.
New York Times 100 Notable Books list, 2015
California Commonwealth Literature Club Gold Medal, 2015
Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2016
Audie Award Nonfiction Category Winner, 2016
The Ridenhour Book Prize, 2016
National Book Critics Circle General Nonfiction Category Finalist, 2015
PEN Center USA Award for Research Nonfiction, 2016