‘2020 was a tinderbox’: murders rose in US neighborhoods of color last year

A strained social safety net, rising tensions and mistrust between police and communities of color played part, experts say

On 26 April 2020, 49-year-old Telish Garder was shot and killed in his home in south Los Angeles. Gardner had four daughters, the youngest just 14, and worked fueling trucks for the city's sanitation department. Two days later and a few blocks away, Magali Alberto was in her car waiting for a light to change when three young men drove up alongside her and fired multiple shots into her tinted windows. Police say the 28-year-old single mother was randomly targeted.