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Shaw's death shocks LA community

By Ryan Canner-O'Mealy
ESPNRISE.com

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Orlando Iles considers himself lucky. The 18-year-old Los Angeles High junior spent his summer recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg and was in danger of missing the entire football season as a result. But when you've experienced what Iles has over the last six months -- burying three friends and escaping a near-death experience of his own -- a bullet to the leg doesn't seem so bad. On a mid-June night, Iles and friend Chris Taylor were hanging out on a street corner close to home around 1 ...

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