Suspect found dead in attempted robbery at Shadow Falls Park Friday night
Broadbent pleaded guilty to a gang-related gross misdemeanor charge in May, though he denied he was a gang member, saying he’d only hung out with them, according to a juvenile petition.
Broadbent’s family regarded him as sweet and funny, but said he had also become “messed up with the wrong crowd,” according to Shawn Distad, a family friend whom Broadbent called “Auntie.”
“He did silly stuff, but nothing to hurt anybody and that’s what’s really confusing about this, if it is true, that he did go to rob somebody,” Distad said Monday. “That’s not his character. He was a loving kid.”
During a memorial for Broadbent late Sunday at Shadow Falls Park, near where the teen had been killed, a vehicle drove by just before midnight and someone fired shots at people gathered. Police said no one was struck by the gunfire.
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