There's more to the story. Jabbar has two brothers who have not been, well, shall we say, completely out of trouble. I have my suspicions that maybe Jabbar was mistaken for one of them but I don't know. One thing I do know for sure is that Jabbar was a good boy and it wasn't easy to stay clean and pure but he did. Of course, you may be right that because of his purity and goodness he was the target. That could have happened. I'll keep you guys posted. I visited Mary this morning and delivered a cake. She looked a little better. The detectives showed up and I left but before I left I told them that I hoped they'd find who did this terrible thing. Thanks for your post and for your heart-felt concern.
Since I relocated my family to Idaho in December 2000, my kids have kept in contact with many of their old friends in San Diego via the internet. My 15 year old recently learned that one of his friends had been gunned down. His friend was a good kid, but his friends siblings were into drugs and gang activity. It's quite possible that Jabber was a victim of similar circumstances.
This is a great time for the Relief Society to support Mary and her family. When we lost a member of the Elder's Quorum to cancer, the Relief Society president spent weeks helping his wife (a non-member) cope with her loss. His daughter was effusive in her praise for the president.
One can only hope that the shooter won't be back to finish a botched job if Jabber wasn't the intended victim.