The Los Angeles Times said prosecutors declined to charge Skipp Townsend. FOX 11 said his son was charged with murder, conspiracy, and firearm possession.

A decision not to file is not a verdict, and an arrest on suspicion is not a complaint. One count of murder, in the Times’ account of the district attorney’s release, and murder plus conspiracy plus possession of a firearm by a felon, on FOX 11’s account of that office, are not the same charge list. Not arrested as of Friday afternoon is a custody line. It is not a finding.

The Los Angeles Times, by James Queally, Libor Jany, and Richard Winton, in a story time-stamped Nov. 6, 2026, at 3:51 p.m. PT, reported L.A. County prosecutors have declined to file murder conspiracy charges against Skipp Townsend, according to his defense attorney and three law enforcement sources. The lede says prosecutors decided not to file charges just days after he was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder by Los Angeles Police and the FBI. A bullet says police arrested him Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder at the offices of 2nd Call. Police, and Los Angeles Police and the FBI, and federal agents, are not the same words, and all three are on that page. It reported that while 62-year-old Clifford “Skipp” Townsend was spared from prosecution, his son now faces a murder charge instead. Spared from prosecution, and declined to file, are not the same procedural word. It reported Townsend, executive director of 2nd Call, was taken into custody by LAPD detectives and federal agents Wednesday, and that prosecutors decided not to bring a criminal complaint against him by Friday afternoon, according to his attorney and three law enforcement sources who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case. The photo caption on that page calls him CEO and executive director. CEO and executive director, and executive director, are not the same title line. The Nov. 5 Times story, by Richard Winton, Libor Jany, and James Queally, and updated at 10:28 a.m. PT, said Robbery Homicide Division detectives took him into custody Wednesday at about 10:30 a.m. in South Los Angeles and that he was held in lieu of $2-million bail. The hyphen is on that page. The Nov. 6 story does not print 10:30 a.m., South Los Angeles, or the bail figure. It prints La Brea Avenue and Obama Boulevard as the offices where detectives and federal agents descended, and it says they seized several computers. About 10:30 a.m. in South Los Angeles, and the offices at La Brea Avenue and Obama Boulevard, are not the same place line. The Nov. 5 story did not print the FBI. It said a spokesman for the district attorney’s office said the case was under review. Under review, on the Nov. 5 story, and declined to file by Friday afternoon, on the Nov. 6 story, are not the same status. The Friday story says he was expected to be released from custody later on Friday. Expected to be released is not a line that says he had been released.

The Friday Times story reported that on Friday afternoon the district attorney’s office alleged Kody Townsend, 19, used an assault rifle to gun down Reginald Foreman, an employee of 2nd Call, in August, that the men were members of rival factions of the Crips, and that the office described the killing as “gang motivated.” It reported the younger Townsend had not been arrested as of Friday afternoon but faces one count of murder, in a news release. One count of murder is the count that sentence names. FOX 11, by Kelli Johnson and the FOX 11 Digital Team, published November 6, 2026, at 3:48 p.m. PST, reported the office charged Kody Townsend, 19, with one count of murder, one felony count of conspiracy to commit a crime, and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon, and that in addition he is accused by means of lying in wait. It reported the office alleged he intentionally killed the victim while he was an active participant in a criminal street gang and that the murder was carried out to further the activities of the criminal street gang. Murder, on the Times’ account of the release, and murder plus conspiracy plus firearm possession plus lying in wait, on FOX 11’s account of the office, are not the same charge list. “Gang motivated,” in quotation marks on the Times, and a gang-motivated murder, on FOX 11, and to further the activities of the criminal street gang, are not the same phrase. The Times reported he had not been arrested as of Friday afternoon. FOX 11 does not print that sentence. It says his arraignment will be scheduled for a later date, and that if convicted as charged he faces life in prison. The Times does not print life, and it does not print an arraignment date. The Times reported Jeremiah Abdelhameed, 25, was charged as an accessory after the fact, then spells the name Abelhameed in the next sentence. Abdelhameed, and Abelhameed, are not the same spelling, and both are on that page. FOX 11 prints Jeremiah James Abdelhameed and one felony count of accessory after the fact, and says he faces seven years in prison. The middle name James, and seven years, are on FOX 11. They are not on the Friday Times story. A later paragraph of the Times story spells Kody Towsend. Towsend, and Townsend, are not the same spelling, and both are on that page.

The Friday Times story reported prosecutors did not file charges against Lenita Sinna Dee Lewis, 28, Shamond “Lil AD” Bennett, 49, or Nichole Aaliyah Smith, 23, and that those three and Abdelhameed were arrested along with Skipp Townsend on Wednesday. The Nov. 5 story said Lewis, 28, and Bennett, 49, were arrested Monday, and that Smith, 23, and Abdelhameed, 25, were held on suspicion of accessory after the fact. Monday, and Wednesday, are not the same day. The Nov. 5 lede said he was arrested along with four men. Lewis and Smith are names on that page. Four men, and those names, are not the same description. Accessory after the fact, for Smith and Abdelhameed on Nov. 5, and no charges filed against Lewis, Bennett, or Smith, on Nov. 6, are not the same status. The Friday story says his attorney, Tiffiny Blacknell, said in a text message on Friday that they are pleased that charges were not filed, that they remain confounded by the LAPD’s decision to arrest him, and that while he is eager to return to his violence-prevention work, the motivation behind the arrest remains unclear. The same quotation says he has been a leader in violence prevention for more than 20 years, without a hyphen in violence prevention, and then uses violence-prevention, with a hyphen. It reported she did not know who was representing her client’s son, that a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office declined to answer a question about the decision not to charge Skipp Townsend, and that the LAPD did not immediately respond early Friday afternoon. FOX 11 reported that on Wednesday he was arrested on conspiracy to commit murder charges. Charges, in that sentence, and suspicion, on the Times, and a decision not to file, are not the same step. FOX 11 reported that on Aug. 6 officers responded to Crenshaw Boulevard and 59th Place around 3:15 p.m., and that Foreman, 51, died at the scene. It said officials said he was a reformed rival gang member of the Rollin’ 111s Crips. The Friday Times story says Foreman, 51, was fatally shot while working with Bennett and a 2nd Call team on a stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard in Hyde Park, and that he, known as “Big Ant” or simply “BA,” was removing weeds at a vacant lot near Crenshaw Boulevard and 60th Street. The Nov. 5 story printed “Big Ant” or “BA,” and it printed both 59th Place and Crenshaw Boulevard and Crenshaw Boulevard and 60th Street. 59th Place, and 60th Street, are not the same corner. Around 3:15 p.m. is on FOX 11. It is not on the Friday Times account. Died at the scene, and fatally shot, are not the same sentence. Rollin’ 111s Crips, on FOX 11, and the 111 Neighborhood Crips that the Times says Foreman claimed growing up, are not the same name. The FOX 11 headline calls Kody Townsend a Rollin’ 100s Crip gang member. The Friday Times story does not print Rollin’ 100s. It says witnesses said a youth in a medical face mask walked up to Foreman and Bennett and started shooting. It does not name that person. The allegation that Kody Townsend, 19, used an assault rifle is the district attorney’s account as those two outlets report it. It is not a sentence that names the person in the mask. An arrest that did not become a complaint, and the counts those outlets say were filed against other people, are not the same case status. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.