A teenage baseball player who was brutally beaten in what police have described as a gang initiation in San Pedro last month has been released from the hospital, a family friend said. Evan Jimenez, 15, suffered brain swelling and a broken jaw after two men confronted him in a San Pedro alleyway, according to police. Jimenez does not remember the assault, according to Meyers, who said he was first informed of the attack while recuperating in the hospital last week. “He couldn’t believe it.”Earlier this month, investigators said they believed Jimenez had been jumped by two men trying to earn membership in the Rancho San Pedro street gang. Jimenez, a freshman at San Pedro High School who pitches for the junior varsity team, had been walking a friend home shortly before the attack.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 25, 2017 19:30 UTC