In the evening on December 29, 2012, two teens were stabbed inside the South Bay Galleria in Redondo Beach. As a regional pediatric trauma and critical care center, the patients were brought to Harbor-UCLA.

One of the fathers provided his thoughts on the event to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin on January 23, 2013, "Ricky's father's letter about his 13-year-old son's stabbing at the South Bay Galleria" . Here are some excerpts: