Lee Arthur Boyd, 18

Jan. 3, 2003

Lee Arthur Boyd, a 18-year-old black male, died Friday, Jan. 3, after being shot in Compton, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

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well lee here i am again and i am thinking of you like always and missing you oh so much this has been a very ruff and hard 9 years for me babe i just feel so blue and yes i am tired of smileing when im so very sad things have not been the same since you passed away and i just can not for the life of me figure why no one will help me . your killers have been free while i suffer to walk the earth broken and defeated because i have not been able to love again out of fear of loosing another person so babe i need some help some closer i smile for the kids but no one helps me smile its a fight just to fight everyday. my life will forever be changed because of you.. i must write on here because truthfully this is the only place i feel close to you . you have always been my SUGA BEAR. babe why the test so big for me and will i be set free to love again or was you the one for me . im so hurt and so full of tears i begged GOD to send you back but you never returned why must i indure so much and how can begain to heal with no closer... yo sons are big and miss you so much my heart sinks to my stomach when i think about you and how we lost you so soon life was just begaining for us where did we go wrong . if i could just hold you i could smile again but for now im about to go to bed i love you lee until next time you will always be my everything.

— shaterra bell Feb. 17, 2012 at 1:38 a.m.

my name is shaterra and i was lee aka suga bear,girl friend and mother of his first son i was pregnant at te time of hs death. he was agreat person who was very happy about the birth of his son whom i names juh'marion arthur boyd, my life has not been the same since he was killed .my son will never know his father. i pray every night that his killers will be found. i still cry like it st happend and its been 8 years. lee was my best friend, always happy and smiling and had a heart that could heal the world he was killed 25 days before his some was born . my son is 8 now and still longs for his father thinking he will come home someday. my heart is broken and will always be. i love this man and pray that someone can help put his killers be hind bars.

— shaterra bell Oct. 16, 2011 at 1:40 p.m.