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Teen shot to death in East Palo Alto

Teen shot to death in East Palo Alto

Teen shot to death in East Palo Alto
Slaying is city's first of 2008, shakes family, community

By Banks Albach, MEDIANEWS STAFF

Article Last Updated: 01/18/2008 02:36:09 AM PST)

EAST PALO ALTO — An 18-year-old East Palo Alto man was shot to death Thursday night, marking the city's first murder this year and leaving a large local family frustrated and reeling over the teen's murder.
At one point close to 40 family members and friends swarmed the perimeter of the crime scene at Gardenia Way and Camellia Drive, where the victim, identified by relatives as Anthony "Pooter" Pickrom, was pronounced dead at about 5 p.m. after being shot twice. No arrests have been made.
At approximately 4:50 p.m., police responded to calls of numerous shots being fired or exchanged at the Pulgas Market on Pulgas Avenue and East Bayshore Road. Sgt. Tom Alipio said Pickrom was chased from the store in his Buick to the crime scene. Numerous shell casings littered the street in front of his car, which relatives said he recently painted.
Pickrom apparently stopped his car, left it running and ran into the house at 1419 Camellia Way, injured and seeking help. He died in the living room; his body was still there when police called the coroner at around 9 p.m.
His mother, Pam, arrived on the scene about two hours later after he died, screaming for her son.
"I can't believe he's gone!" she screamed into the shoulders of a relative, outside the line of police tape. "I want to see my baby!"

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