Mourners on Friday paid their respects to a woman who was killed in a shooting that wounded her 12-year-old son.
Family and colleagues remembered Metro bus driver Denise Berry at the intersection of Rosecrans and Kornblum where she was shot in her personal car on Wednesday.
"To know Denise is to know love," said John Stewart, a friend. "To know Denise is to know caring."
Her death was unexpected and unbelievable.
"The mood is somber. Sad. It's somber. It's was undeserved. Unexpected," said Ed Johnson, an MTA co-worker.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials said Berry was killed and her 12-year-old son wounded in a walk up shooting.
The man responsible was Robert Washington Jr. whose feet the Berrys giggled about spotting in a car window.
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"She didn't deserve this," said Robert Collins, an MTA co-worker. "She did not deserve this. I'm out here hurt that a young lady will never grow old, see her grandkids grow because some fool with a gun killed her."
A Hawthorne officer witnessed Washington's attack on the Berrys and shot the gunman dead.
Stanley White is accused of driving Washington's car. He is charged with murder. His hearing was postponed Friday.
"Inside her own car in front of her child," Collins said. "That's what really disgusts me ... That's going to be in his head forever."
