Ximena Meza (credit: William Meza/CBS)
Posted on 10/25/2014 6:00:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
ANAHEIM (CBSLA.com) — Two men have been arrested in connection with Wednesday’s shooting death of a 9-year-old girl, Anaheim police said Saturday morning.
Ximena Meza was playing with her sisters in front of of their apartment complex in the 2300 block of West Greenacre Avenue when shots rang out about 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, and she was struck once in the chest, according to a press release from the Anaheim Police Department. She was taken to a hospital where she died 45 minutes later.
Late Friday night, the press release states, Ricardo Cruz, 19, of Buena Park, and Alfredo Miguel Aquino, 20, of Anaheim were arrested at the Anaheim Police Department headquarters and booked for murder. The men are currently being held on $1 million bond.
According to a preliminary investigation, a male suspect with a handgun exited a white car on Greenacre Avenue and opened fire on a group of men who had congregated near the area where Meza and her sisters were playing, the press release states. Meza was struck in her chest by one of the shots fired by the suspect. After she was shot, the group of men ran from the scene while the car containing the suspect sped away.
Investigators believe the shooting was gang-related.
An online effort has raised more than $6,000 for Meza’s funeral arrangements. Click here to access Ximena’s Funeral Fund.
¿Usted lo cree?
“Investigators believe the shooting was gang-related...”
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What?? In such a good Irish neighborhood?? Whooda thott???
These types are what Obama wants to swamp America with.
So do the Republicans.
Such a beautiful child, murdered by most likely illegal alien gang banging scum..RIP sweet angel
The police need to make arrangements with some of the prisoners where these men are heading, to insure justice is carried out. No reason to delay. Same day service.
In Wisconsin we call that being, “Dahmer-ized.’
Works EVERY time it’s tried and saves COUNTLESS Taxpayer Dollars! :)
Frankly, I hope they got the right guys. There has been a LOT of pressure to make an arrest. I am not usually anti police, but Anaheim PD has not exactly been an exemplar of justice, the past few years.
Thank you.
Also, prisoners in Anaheim go to Orange County Jail. Some poor blaster got just the treatment you mentioned, the jailers told the inmates that he was a child molester. After he was savagely tortured to death, the truth came out. He was just a lonely moron, reading porn mags in his car, drinking beer, and was arrested when he got out of the car, to take a leak. Happened behind the supermarket where my daughter worked. He certainly needed to be prosecuted, but not worthy of a jailhouse death penalty.
Thank you.
Round these illegal gangbangers up and send to Syria to face those Kurdish women, most of whom are probably mothers..
He was just a lonely moron, reading porn mags in his car, drinking beer, and was arrested when he got out of the car, to take a leak. Happened behind the supermarket where my daughter worked.What could go wrong there?
Mostly conservative middle class. Most of the gangs AKA Mexicans lived in Westminster and Santa Ana.
Sí, lo creo. ¡Espantoso!
Same here but I was 70’s/80’s.
My parents still there..hard to recognize now, very sad.
Illegals and other filth everywhere & gang violence is rampant.
Great place to grow up, couldn’t pay me to live there now.
Thanks for your reply. I did not mean to imply that the guy was not a menace to society, he certainly deserved to be prosecuted, and imprisoned.
My problem is that the guards who were supposed to keep him safe for disposition by the criminal justice system, instead, falsely labeled him as a child molester, made sure the inmates knew, and then turned their backs, in the observation deck, for 20 minutes, while he was savagely tortured to death.
Five inmates were convicted for the crime, but the guards were not prosecuted.
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