Posted on 07/17/2007 8:31:12 PM PDT by freespirited
Another Santa Barbara teenager is dead.
Police said he is the victim of a brutal gang-related attack on a Westside Street.
The incident happened Monday night on the 700 block of San Pascual Street.
Since the highly publicized death of a Santa Barbara teen last March, police have been actively working to prevent gang retaliation and escalation.
Now they wonder if the stabbing death of a San Marcos High School teen could be related.
A curbside memorial marks the spot where 16-year-old Lorenzo Carachure was fatally wounded in a gang attack Monday night.
Carachure's death marks Santa Barbara's second gang-related fatality this year.
In March, 15-year-old Angel Linares was murdered at the intersection of State and Carrillo Streets.
"We've had a number of gang fights prior to the linares homicide it's just in these two incidents young men have died," said Lieutenant Paul McCaffrey, spokesperson for the Santa Barbara Police Department.
Police said Carachure and his two friends were walking home from their jobs at a downtown Chinese Restaurant when a group of men armed with clubs and knives approached them.
After throwing out gang slogans, police said the men chased the boys down and stabbed them.
"This has been happening since the incident on Carrillo Street and I don't think it's going to stop. It's going to keep on going from both ways," said Primitiva Hernandez and friend and sister of one of the two other victims.
Friends said Carachure left his native Mexico two years ago to move in with his aunt and uncle in Santa Barbara.
The teen had dreams of creating a better life.
"He came here so that he could go to school to learn English and work. He was working here and he has family back over there," said Hernandez.
Now the family hopes they can raise enough money to send the teen's body back to Mexico so he can be buried in the country where he was born.
Police said a 19-year-old victim was taken to Cottage Hospital.
He has been listed in good condition.
A 17-year-old victim was treated and released.
Police are still searching for the suspects in this case.
They have not made any arrests. Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Gary Siegel at 897-2338 or the Watch Commander at 897-2355.
Police said all three victims were either gang members or gang affiliates.
So he joined a gang?
No where does the article say that the victim joined a gang...
Whoops, missed the last sentence. Sawwy.
Must have beat you by a millisecond with my correction. ;)
Why that line was put in the article is beyond me. Was it edited by Kennedy/McCain/Reid?
But at least we were on the same wavelength!
It’s a civil war!!!!! Pull out!!!!!!
Santa Barbara has gangs?
Between the millionaire entertainers, college students and surfer hippies, I guess someone has to supply their drugs.
Between drug dealers and gangsters, they now account for what percent of the annual homicides in the US? 60%? 70%?
Tell me again why I should care?
Meanwhile, they allocated town funds for an "artiste" to paint a blue line on town property indicating where the ocean will be with global warming.
Gangs in Santa Barbara? Do they do drive-bys in Lexuses and Jaguars? When the cheapest home is $900,000 you’d think there would not be as much incentive to go gangbanging.
An insurgency, an intifada.... Let them have their homeland back. < /s >
An insurgency, an intifada.... Let them have their homeland back. < /s >
Doing the Gangbanging that Americans won’t do. The “Barrio” has spread North...pretty much up past Sacramento now.
This never happened in Santa Barbara even a few years ago. The invasion continues.....................
This never happened in Santa Barbara even a few years ago. The invasion continues.....................
Considering the first “homeboy” got shanked behind the Saks...
(And no, I am NOT making that up)
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