D.A. won't charge L.A. anti-gang worker Skipp Townsend but his son now faces a murder case

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Set us as preferred Prosecutors have decided not to file charges against a prominent South L.A.anti-gang worker, just days after he was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder by Los Angeles Police and the FBI, a defense attorney and three law enforcement sources told The Times on Friday.But while 62-year-old Clifford “Skipp” Townsend was spared from prosecution, his son faces a murder charge instead, authorities said.Townsend, executive director of the violence prevention group 2nd Call, was taken into custody by LAPD detectives and federal agents Wednesday.

Prosecutors decided not to bring a criminal complaint against him by Friday afternoon, according to his attorney and the three law enforcement sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.On Friday afternoon, the L.A.

District Attorney’s Office alleged Kody Townsend, 19, used an assault rifle to gun down Reginald Foreman, an employee of 2nd Call, in August.The men were members of rival factions of the Crips street gang, according to the district attorney’s office, which described the killing as “gang motivated.”The younger Townsend had not been arrested as of Friday afternoon but faces one count of murder, the district attorney’s office said in a news release.

California The head of a South Los Angeles nonprofit gang intervention program was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, along with four others accused in the case.Jeremiah Abdelhameed, 25, was charged as an accessory after the fact in Foreman’s death.Abelhameed was one of several people arrested along with Skipp Townsend on Wednesday.Detectives from the LAPD’s Robbery Homicide Division and federal agents descended on 2nd Call’s offices at La Brea Avenue and Obama Boulevard on Wednesday, where they seized several compute...