Posted on 03/21/2007 5:31:48 AM PDT by radar101
Workers shot in Pomona, one fatally
POMONA - Three construction workers on a breakfast run were shot, one fatally, by a gunman who peppered their vehicle with bullets on a quiet side street Tuesday morning in western Pomona
One of the men was taken by ambulance to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, where he died, said Pomona police Sgt. Rob Baker.
Two others were airlifted to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Baker said one man was in critical condition. The other was listed as stable.
The men were driving in a Ford Explorer from the Mission-71 Business Park project to a convenience store on Mission Boulevard, said Pomona police Lt. Ron McDonald.
The men told workers at the construction site they were going to get breakfast.
They were traveling on Oak Avenue just south of Third Street around 9:30 a.m. when someone appeared on the sidewalk and started shooting, police said.
"They were en route to a nearby 7-Eleven and they were shot up," McDonald said. "The car was shot up."
The men drove about a half mile back to the construction site in the 1700 block of West Second to get help.
The names and ages of the men were not immediately available, said Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Sam Padilla.
Police cordoned off the construction site, though work there continued. They also cordoned off Oak Avenue between Second Street and Mission Boulevard.
By early afternoon, a police forensics team had placed more than 30 white evidence markers at the scene of the shooting. What the markers signified was unclear.
Baker said the Explorer was struck by bullets "numerous times."
The shooting occurred next to a mobile-home park surrounded by a block wall topped with barbed wire.
The neighborhood is a mix of small, aging homes, apartments and a bed frame manufacturer.
Police are not saying whether the shootings were gang-related.
But the handful of residents gathered near the shooting site were unwilling to give their names, saying they feared reprisal.
"In Pomona, you keep your mouth shut," one woman said.
Staff writer Mark Petix can be reached by e-mail at mark.petix@dailybulletin.com, or by phone at (909) 483-9355.
The pictured vehicle is not an Explorer.
Fer Christakes give the reporter a break. He can only recognize and name hybrids.
Sorry about the double post...
Clicked the button, nothing happened so I thought I clicked too fast... Guess not...
Location of spent shell cases, what a dumb reporter.
"But the handful of residents gathered near the shooting site were unwilling to give their names, saying they feared reprisal."
"In Pomona, you keep your mouth shut," one woman said.
Some parts of America are nearly as bad Iraq.
Yeah, let's have the feds move in and incinerate women and children. That would be a new idea. /jack-booted thug sarcasm
Perhaps a witness protection program is needed? Although this has been controversial at the Federal level, witness protection programs were quite useful and led to many successful organized crime prosecutions. Perhaps states should consider using such programs as well.
I bet most who read the first few lines of this article think
this happened some where in Iraq.
Something the MSM want report. There are more killings in America on a daily bases-es then there are in military personal in Iraq.
There are places like that in just about every American city. There is a libertarian solution and an authoritarian solution, but neither seem acceptable to the media nor the Powers That Be.
Yes. Things will be a bit tense while folks sort things out and get used to the new status quo. But we will be left with a much better, more secure, and much more freedom based world after.
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