One Photo, Varied Reactions

I am appalled that you chose to print the photo of the devastated and weeping 6-year-old Jerry Chavez (“What the Camera Saw,” Oct. 28).

It is disgusting that photographer Lawrence K. Ho chose to intrude on the child’s privacy and anguish upon learning that his two sisters had been shot in the doorway of their apartment building.

For The Times to print it is indefensible. Where are your morals and compassion?

DENISE SMITH

Pasadena

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After all the heartbreaking shootings and hit-and-run incidents that have occurred over the last two weeks and the extensive coverage given to them, do we really need to actually see a victim’s grief?

SUSAN HAUSKEN

Downey

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Your full-color picture of that poor little boy, alone, dazed and crying with his face hidden in his arm against the banister of the stairway, stunned after his sisters were shot to death by some street animals, delivers the message louder than any words.

That photograph should be enlarged and put on exhibit at all gun-control and legislative meetings.

RAY COSIDINE

Pasadena