Murder charges have been filed against three men suspected of killing a 19-year-old in South L.A. over his red shoes, police said Tuesday. 
 
 Dwight Smith, 30, and Kevin Johnson, 25, were arrested last week on suspicion of murder, said LAPD Det. Chris Barling. Murder charges were filed Friday against the two and an additional charge was filed against 27-year-old Kanasho Johns 
 
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 Johns was taken into custody Tuesday near Houston on a murder warrant, Barling said. Antheyst Jarrett, 27, who was arrested the day of the killing, is also facing charges of witness intimidation and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the shooting. 
 
 Christina House / For The Times James Price, 22, wears red shoes with red laces during a news conference announcing multiple arrests in the shooting death of his brother Tavin Price, who was shot May 29 after being questioned by his assailants about his red shoes. James Price, 22, wears red shoes with red laces during a news conference announcing multiple arrests in the shooting death of his brother Tavin Price, who was shot May 29 after being questioned by his assailants about his red shoes. (Christina House / For The Times) (Christina House / For The Times) 
 
 Tavin Price was at a car wash in the 3000 block of West Florence Avenue on May 29 about 11 a.m. when he went to a smoke shop to buy a soda. Inside the shop, he was confronted by two men who asked about his gang affiliation because he was wearing red shoes. 
 
 Police said Price ignored the men and walked back to his mother and a family friend who were finishing up at the car wash. 
 
 As Price stood in front of his mother, he was shot, police said. 
 
 On Tuesday, as investigators announced the suspects' names at a news conference, Price's mother wept. Jennifer Rivers told reporters she goes to the cemetery every day to visit her son's grave. 
 
 I am ready. Every day they go to court, I'll be there. — Jennifer Rivers, mother of Tavin Price 
 
 She said she still hears his last words in her mind. 
 
 "Mommy, am I going to be all right? Mommy, am I going to be OK?" she said. 
 
 Rivers, who wore red Converse shoes at the news conference, said she was relieved about the arrests and charges and is prepared for the upcoming judicial process. 
 
 "I am ready," she said. "Every day they go to court, I'll be there." 
 
 A $50,000 reward was introduced last week in Price's killing and is expected to be voted on Wednesday. City Councilman Bernard C. Parks said he hopes the money will inspire more witnesses to come forward and bring justice to the family. 
 
 "Nothing brings closure when you lose a loved one," Parks said. 
 
 For more news on L.A. homicides, follow @nicolesantacruz. ||||| Jennifer Rivers mourned the death of her 19-year-old son, Tavin Price, who was allegedly killed because he was wearing the wrong color shoes. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on June 23, 2015. (Published Tuesday, June 23, 2015) 
 
 Three men identified by police as gang members and a woman were arrested in the shooting death of a 19-year-old developmentally disabled man gunned down outside a Southern California carwash after he was confronted about the color of his shoes. 
 
 Tavin Terrell Price was shot from behind multiple times May 29 outside Simms Car Wash in the 3300 block of West Florence Avenue. He had just walked into a nearby smoke shop when a man asked him about his gang affiliation and commented on Price's red shoes, police said. 
 
 Price's mother Jennifer Rivers, who was with him when he was shot, said she has visited daily the cemetery where her son is buried. 
 
 "You viciously murdered my child in my face," she said at Tuesday's news conference about the arrests. 
 
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 Price did not respond to the man who approached him and completed his purchase before returning to his car. A second individual "walked up behind Price" and opened fire, police said. 
 
 Price's mother, who could be a key witness, said she wants to face her son's alleged killers. 
 
 "Every day they're in court, I'm going to be there," she said. "I won't miss a day." 
 
 Price, who would have turned 20 this month, died at a hospital. He was not involved in gang activity, family members said. 
 
 At a June 5 memorial for Price, mourners wore red in memory of the victim. 
 
 "I appreciate that, because that's what he got killed over -- some red shoes," said Rivers. 
 
 Antheyste Jarrett, 27, was arrested soon after the crime on suspicion of witness intimidation and being an accessory after the fact, police said. On June 17, detectives executed a search warrant at the home of Dwight Smith, 30, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, police said. A day later, Kevin Johnson, 25, also was arrested on suspicion of murder. 
 
 The suspected gunman, identified by police as 27-year-old Kanasho Shadrick Johns, was arrested Tuesday morning outside Houston, Texas, police said. He was initially identified as Kanasho Jones, but police later issued a correction. 
 
 The three men were identified as gang members. 
 
 "We have tragedy often in our community, but there are seldom times where we see senseless tragedies... where a young man is killed simply because of the color of his shoes," said William Scott, LAPD deputy chief of operations for South Bureau. "We thought those days were past us." 
 
 A $50,000 reward for information was approved by the City Council. 
 
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 Four people have been arrested in connection with the fatal Hyde Park shooting of a 19-year-old man who was killed at a car wash after being confronted about gang affiliation and the color of his red shoes, Los Angeles police announced Tuesday. 
 
 Tavin Terrell Price was fatally shot in front of his mother in the 3300 block of West Florence Avenue about 11 a.m. May 29, when they were headed to the beach, police said. 
 
 Detectives provided the identities of suspects arrested in connection with the case at a 1 p.m. news conference at the 77th Street Division. 
 
 The suspected shooter, 27-year-old Kanasho Johns, was taken into custody at a home outside of Houston, Texas, on Tuesday morning, Los Angeles Police Department Detective Chris Barling said. 
 
 Two other men were arrested last week and were charged with murder on June 19, according to Barling. All three men are local gang members, Barling said. 
 
 A fourth person, a 27-year-old woman, was arrested during an initial investigation on suspicion of witness intimidation and being an accessory after the fact, the detective said. She was charged June 2, he said. 
 
 Photographs of the suspects were not released amid the ongoing investigation. 
 
 Price's mother, Jennifer Rivers, sobbed audibly as Barling announced details of the arrests. She said she goes to the cemetery to visit her son every morning. 
 
 "First of all, I want to thank God for answering my prayer for justice of my son," Rivers said. "Everything I hear is Tavin saying, 'Mommy, am I going to be all right? Mommy, I'm not going to die, am I?' That's all that I hear every day. I've got to live with that for the rest of my life. That's torture. You robbed me of my baby." 
 
 Rivers' supporters at the hearing wore red shoes. 
 
 "I'm trying to be strong up here, but inside I feel dead," Rivers said. 
 
 Barling said Price had gone to the Simms Car Wash with his mother and a family friend, and then walked to a nearby smoke shop. At the shop, a man confronted Price about his red shoes and asked about gang affiliation. 
 
 Price did not reply and instead walked away and returned to his mother after completing his purchase. 
 
 The man who had confronted Price followed him, along with another man who had been in the shop, Barling said. Around the same time, the shooter arrived, was joined by one or both of the men from the shop, and gunned Price down, according to the detective. 
 
 The three suspects arrested locally were identified by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office as: Kevin Deon Johnson, 24; Dwight Kevin Smith, 30; and Antheyst Jarrett, 27. 
 
 County inmate records indicated Johnson was arrested June 17 and was being held on $2.09 million bail. His arraignment on a murder charge was postponed to July 6, the DA's office stated. 
 
 Smith was arrested June 18 and was being held on about $2.07 million bail, records showed. He pleaded not guilty to murder on June 22 and was due to return to court on July 6. 
 
 The DA's office would not comment on the case against Kanasho Johns, the alleged shooter. 
 
 A spokeswoman for the FBI's Los Angeles office said Kanasho Shadrick Johns was arrested by an FBI Task Force in Houston, and was in jail in Montgomery County, Texas. Johns was slated to transferred to LAPD custody, the FBI spokeswoman said. 
 
 Montgomery County inmate records showed Johns was taken into custody in city of Conroe has an alias of "S-Bone." 
 
 Jarrett was arrested on the afternoon of the killing and was being held on $500,000 bail. Following a preliminary hearing, she was scheduled to be arraigned July 2 on one count of dissuading a witness from testifying and one count of accessory after the fact, according to the DA's office. 
 
 Barling described the woman as an "associated gang member." Gang enhancement charges were filed against her, Barling said. 
 
 Barling said Price was not a gang member but was simply wearing red shoes on the day of the shooting. 
 
 He said the type of confrontation -- of an individual unknown to gang members -- is common in gang cases. 
 
 “We have tragedy often in our community, but there are very seldom times where we see senseless tragedies like the one involved in this particular homicide investigation, where a young man is killed simply because of the color of his shoes,” said William Scott, LAPD deputy chief of operations for South Bureau. "We thought those days were past us, but as we saw in this case, we still have a lot of work to do in terms of making our community safer.” 
 
 Rivers described Price as "mentally challenged." He died at California Hospital after the shooting. 
 
 At a vigil for the victim four days after the shooting, friends and relatives gave his name as both "Tevin" and "Tavin." 
 
 Councilman Bernard Parks last week introduced at motion for a $50,000 reward for information in the case, and Rivers went to a City Council meeting in support of the reward. 
 
 The motion was scheduled for a vote Wednesday, according to council records. Parks said at Tuesday's news conference that he planned to go forward with a vote next Tuesday. 
 
 Barling said he hoped that the reward would bring out more information in the case. 
 
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 Please enable Javascript to watch this video ||||| Los Angeles police say they've arrested four people in the shooting death of a developmentally disabled teenager outside a South Los Angeles car wash last month.Kanasho Johns, 27, was arrested in Houston, Texas and is believed to be the shooter. Dwight Smith, 30, Kevin Johnson, 25, and Antheyst Jarrett, 27, were also arrested in connection to the shooting, LAPD officials said.Smith and Johnson were both charged with one count of murder. Smith pleaded not guilty and was scheduled to return to court for a preliminary hearing setting on July 6. Johnson's arraignment was continued to July 6.Jarrett faces one count of dissuading a witness from testifying and one count of accessory after the fact. Her arraignment was scheduled for July 2.The district attorney's office declined to confirm charges for Johns.On May 29, Tavin Price was shot to death outside a car wash near the corner of Florence Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard after a suspect made comments about his red shoes."Tavin was not a gang member. Tavin was just wearing red shoes that day at the car wash," LAPD Det. Christopher Barling said.Investigators believe the color, which is associated with a specific street gang, angered the gunman.The 19-year-old was shot four times in the back and chest. He was transported to a local hospital, where he later died.The Los Angeles City Council is expected to approve a $50,000 reward in hopes more witnesses will come forward.
– Three men now in custody murdered a teen with developmental disabilities in front of his mother because they didn't like the color of his shoes, according to the LAPD. Police say that on the morning of May 29, 19-year-old Tavin Price went into a smoke shop in South LA to buy a soda and was confronted by men who asked him about his red shoes and his gang affiliation, the Los Angeles Times reports. Cops say Price ignored the men and returned to a nearby car wash, where he was shot four times in front of his mother and a family friend. Alleged shooter Kanasho Johns, 27, was arrested in Texas yesterday and has been charged with murder, as have Dwight Smith, 30, and Kevin Johnson, 25, ABC7 reports. Police say Price had nothing to do with gangs and just happened to be wearing red shoes. "There are seldom times where we see senseless tragedies ... where a young man is killed simply because of the color of his shoes," an LAPD spokesman says, per NBC Los Angeles. “We thought those days were past us." After investigators held a press conference yesterday, Price's mother said she still visits her son in the cemetery every day and still hears his final words, KTLA reports. "Everything I hear is Tavin saying, 'Mommy, am I going to be all right? Mommy, I'm not going to die, am I?' That's all that I hear every day," she said. "I've got to live with that for the rest of my life. That's torture. You robbed me of my baby." (Another senseless death in the news: that of a toddler left in a hot car for 16 hours.)