Ernest Edward Dabbs
Name: Ernest Edward Dabbs
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race: African-American/Black
Date: 07/25/2000
Location: Fox Hills Mall Slauson Avenue & Sepulveda Boulevard
Culver City, California, 90230
County: Los Angeles
Agency: Culver City Police Department
Cause of Death: Gunshot
Intended Use of Force: Deadly force
Media summary: A gun battle between rival black gangs erupted on the roof of the Fox Hills mall and claimed the lives of Ernest E. Dabbs, 20, Jason Dyeshaun Rowden, 20, and Richard Lloyd Brewer Jr., 19, of Los Angeles. One of the men was fatally shot in the passenger seat of a white Cadillac, while the other was killed nearby on the rooftop level of the mall's parking lot. Police did not say whether the men had been shot by rival gang members or by two plainclothes police officers who were eating in the mall's food court and joined the fray when shooting broke out. Rowden died on August 4.
Unique ID: 30158
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