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Santa Barbara teen dies in brutal gang-related attack, still searching for suspects
KSBY-TV ^ | 7/17/07 | Leana Orsua

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.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: aliens; bulldog; gangs; illegals; immigrantlist; mexico; santabarbara
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To: stephenjohnbanker
About twenty years ago, while we were chasing a gang member through back yards, we paused to ask an old Mexican man if he had seen where the suspect went. He stared at us for a while and then said "We're going to take California from you like you took it from us."

So far, so good

21 posted on 07/17/2007 11:08:16 PM PDT by oneolcop (Take off the gloves!)
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To: mefistofelerevised

The “better life” for a gang member can be read many ways.


22 posted on 07/17/2007 11:48:15 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Hey! Must be a devil between us)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


23 posted on 07/18/2007 12:41:05 AM PDT by gubamyster
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To: freespirited
Police said all three victims were either gang members or gang affiliates.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. If there were some way to fence them off and provide all the guns and ammo needed to fight to the last man, I'd be in favor of it.

-ccm

24 posted on 07/18/2007 2:18:57 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: freespirited

Probable fruits of Bush’s Open Door Policy with Mexico.


25 posted on 07/18/2007 6:05:32 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: oneolcop

Deport them ALL !!


26 posted on 07/18/2007 12:23:04 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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