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Los Angeles Times gang reporter Michael Lyons has just left his favorite downtown saloon when he is shot and wounded on the sidewalk two blocks from City Hall.

Michael Krikorian was born and raised in Los Angeles. His crime stories and personal essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Fresno Bee, Los Angeles Weekly, New York Times, and Cycle News. He has reported extensively on Los Angeles's notorious street gangs and receives more letters from inmates in California state prisons than he does bills and junk mail combined.