Jonathan Fajardo is a member of a Latino gang from Harbor Gateway that has a history of attacking blacks.
He is accused of gunning down a 14-year-old girl he did not know just because she was black and, a month later, of helping to kill a possible witness, who was stabbed 80 times.
His alleged crimes have highlighted interracial gang violence in parts of Los Angeles and beyond, drawing attention from the FBI director, mayor, police chief and community leaders.
But there is a lesser-known fact about the 18-year-old typed plainly on his booking record.
Jonathan Fajardo is black — at least in part.
His mother is Mexican and his father is a Creole whose parents are from Belize. He has three half-sisters and a half-brother who are as dark as his victim, Cheryl Green.
His sister was engaged to a black man with whom Fajardo was on good terms. A cousin is dating a black friend of Green's family.
Why Fajardo ended up where he is — charged with two notorious gang crimes — is hard for his family to fathom.
"He knows he has black blood," said his mother, Luz Andrade, who like other relatives cannot recall Fajardo making racist remarks. "He's had black people around him all his life.''
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