Family of this 14-Year-Old Boy Discovered He’d Been Fatally Shot in the Most Heartbreaking Way

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Losing a family member is always a heart-wrenching occurrence. But discovering that your loved one died while scrolling through social media has to be an insult to tragedy.

Just look at the family of Benny Gutierrez, a 14-year-old boy who was fatally shot while simply doing something that is often considered a service to the community.

On May 13, Gutierrez and a group of other teenagers were at a local park in Los Angeles County painting over gang graffiti. Out of nowhere, multiple shots were fired from a car in the parking lot.

According to KTLA, the one bullet that hit Gutierrez killed him instantly. His mother, Rosalie, learned that he was killed through social media nearly six hours after the shooting.

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