Keionta Hayes, 12, stands before a memorial of candles in the 10500 block of South Vermont Avenue, where his friend was shot earlier this month. The area is one of the deadliest in Los Angeles County. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Contractors walk into an Art Deco building at 81st Street and South Vermont Avenue to bid on a redevelopment project. For the last three years, no homicides have occurred in a remarkable patch of South Los Angeles. Measuring a mile wide from Hoover Street to Halldale Avenue and stretching from 73rd to 85th Street. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Debbie Holt, 51, kisses her grandson Jovan Harris, 2, at West 107th Street and South Vermont Avenue. Holt lost a child to violence in 2002. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Gilder Acuna, 25, paints the front door of a home near 73rd Street and South Vermont Avenue. No homicides have occurred in the area in the last three years.(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
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Haily Alvarez, 8, walks home with her grandmother Elizabeth Gonzalez, near Raymond Avenue and 74th Street. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
