This week's featured reader comments

Readers come to the Homicide Report for a multitude of reasons – some are here to leave memories about loved ones while others come to share thoughts about violence and its roots in L.A. County. They range from sentimental to angry.

As we’ve done in the past, we’d like to highlight certain comments to encourage productive conversation.

Here’s what readers had to say in recent days:

Long-time resident on Damionye Terrelle Fredricks-Hubbard, a 23-year-old black man who was shot  Sunday, Aug. 11, in Watts:

Been in this neighborhood for 30 years, seen a lot of births, and death. Revenage killing, killing in general solves nothing. The only thing it accomplished, is to put another family into an endless cycle of grief and sadness, and for those who decided this was the day I kill. To forever be looking over their shoulders and wondering when those bulliets are coming back at and into them.

David on Stephanie Almanzan, a 21-year-old white woman who was found dead Oct. 6, 2009:

I went to see you today for the 1000 th time but yet it still feels like the first time they say time heals all wounds but its a bunch of crap this wound will never heal :(

Julius on Antonio Lee Riley, an 18-year-old who was shot along with 16-year-old Trayvon Noel Jackson,  Tuesday, Aug. 27, in Hyde Park:

We are losing too many young people.

-- Nicole Santa Cruz