Man, 23, Jailed in Slaying of Chatsworth High Student : Crime: The victim is the second youth from the school to be shot in less than a week.

CHATSWORTH — A 23-year-old man remained in jail Sunday for investigation of murder after he allegedly shot and killed a 16-year-old Chatsworth boy who was among several youths who challenged the man to a fight Saturday night, police said.

Investigators said a group of six to 10 youths taunted Scott Howard Breverman to come out of his Hiawatha Street home to fight and then began beating his silver BMW with pipes and sticks. Breverman allegedly began firing a handgun at the boys through a closed door and then chased them into the street, where he continued shooting at them.

Sixteen-year-old Andy Suryaatmadja, a Chatsworth High School student, was struck in the head with a bullet about 9 p.m. Saturday and later died at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, police said.

He was the second Chatsworth High student shot in less than a week. On Tuesday, Gabriel Gittleson, a 17-year-old senior at the high school, was shot and wounded when two suspects emerged from a white BMW and demanded his jacket and book bag. Gittleson was shot three times when he refused.

Humphrey Suryaatmadja, Andy’s father, said he did not know why his son would have gone to Breverman’s house or who he was with.

“I’m very desperate, very depressed,” he said. “I really don’t know. I cannot talk.”

Janet Breverman, the alleged killer’s mother, said the attack began without warning.

“I heard shots and I hit the floor,” said Breverman, who was inside the house with her son when the shooting occurred. “I didn’t know who was shooting or what. . . . It sounded like some of the shots were coming from inside the house.”

Breverman said she crawled across the floor and dialed 911.

Breverman said she and her son “didn’t even know who the hell these guys were” and police did not disclose why the boys were at Breverman’s house. Breverman described her son as “just a usual, average kid.” He is a Chatsworth High dropout who enjoyed riding a BMX bicycle and planned to enroll at Pierce College in the fall, she said.

But Ralph Lochridge, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Los Angeles, said Scott Breverman “has been under investigation by the agency for cocaine trafficking” but has never been arrested by the DEA.

Neighbors said that they have watched youths in expensive cars come and go from the Breverman house for years, and that it served as a hangout for loud late-night parties and afternoon workout sessions on the punching bag in Breverman’s garage.

“It was trouble just waiting to happen,” said Randall Barker, who has lived next door to Breverman and his mother since 1986. “It was always kind of a mess over there. I just did my best to ignore it.”

Bill Reed, another neighbor, said he often saw youths driving “Ferraris, BMWs and top-of-the-line Mercedeses” pull up briefly at the house and then drive away.

Breverman said that her son did have a lot of visitors but that she did not notice anything unusual.

“There were always a lot of different kids in and out and around,” she said. “But I don’t know that there was anything abnormal.”

She said her son called from jail early Sunday.

“I talked to him early this morning and he’s doing OK,” she said. “Obviously he’s upset.”