Posted on 01/12/2012 8:38:18 AM PST by BenLurkin
Police are looking for a 16-to-17 year old female suspect in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old male in front of his home in Winnetka Wednesday evening.
The unnamed suspect fled in a green sport utility vehicle, said Los Angeles police Officer Karen Rayner
Police were called to the 6900 block of Cozycroft Avenue, one block north of Vanowen Street, at 6:10 p.m. on a shots fired report, Rayner said.
The victim — a high school soccer player — was hit at least three times and taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
The victim — identified as Francisco Rodriguez — attended El Camino High and was the team’s starting goalkeeper.
The motive for the shooting was not known, Rayner said.
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Francisco Rodriguez, 17, was shot to death Wednesday night in front of his home on Cozycroft Avenue in Winnetka.
A soccer teammate had just dropped the goalie off at his house after a game when a female reportedly came to the house and asked Rodriguez to come outside.
He was then shot three times before the suspect or suspects fled.
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Ian Kogan, the team’s coach, told CBS2 and KCAL9′s Serene Branson, that the deceased was “just a great kid. Funny. Always cracking jokes. Fun to be around.”
He added, “I loved him. I truly loved him. Got to know him…he was a great kid. He meant well.”
I can't speak for all of Pennsylvania, but there are large swaths of Philadelphia that have no white people living there.
In fact, if you give me a neighborhood, I can tell you with 95%+ accuracy the race or ethnicity of who lives there.
Unfortunately, there are very few majority black or latino neighborhoods that aren't riddled with crime.
That may make you feel sad, but it's reality.
I wonder if the girl was UPSET that he was not a FOOTBALL player. :-) (in schools soccer players are considered nerds, but I was a goalie and I beat up the school's QB once when he said the soccer players are sissys!
Why should we care about a killing that doesn’t involve Americans and takes place outside of America (California)?
You’re trying to get a rise out of me.
“You’re trying to get a rise out of me.”
Sorry...just making a point. LOL.
I've been there. To be honest, last time I was in Pennsylvania, I was stunned how dilapidated, old, cold and gloomy the cities in that place were. Much of Philadelphia appears as though it was just abandoned. All big cities have their bad areas, but Philly was downright scary.
In in comparison, much of LA is a new, shinning city on the hill.
Want to see some staggering stats? Look at the crime stats of Philly...Philadelphia has about *double* the murder rate per capita, than LA.
No matter how ya chop it up, that's scary.
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