Posted on 05/01/2005 3:11:41 PM PDT by Travis McGee
Motorist Shot on San Diego Freeway in North Hills
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 18 year-old motorist on the San Diego (405) Freeway was shot three times today by a gunman in black Honda, police said.
A no-hits shooting occurred shortly afterward on the eastbound Foothill (210) Freeway near Hubbard Street.
The victim from the 405 went to the Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, and police said his vital signs were stable, said Los Angeles police Sgt. Jeff Hart of the Devonshire Station.
The victim, whose name police refused to make public, told police he was shot on the northbound 405 between Roscoe Boulevard and Nordhoff Street, Hart said. The wounded driver pulled off the freeway and flagged down an officer at Devonshire Street and Balboa Boulevard about 1:10 a.m., he said.
Five people were in the suspect car, the victim told police.
The car-to-car shooting was latest in a recent rash.
On April 24, a 33 year-old motorist was wounded on the northbound Costa Mesa (55) Freeway near 17th Street, near where Jake Tuason, 26, of Fontana, was fatally shot March 12.
Two other people were killed recently on the Harbor (110) Freeway in South Los Angeles.
Michael Livingston, 26, of Long Beach was shot in the head near Manchester Avenue on March 29.
On April 13, James Wiggins, 47, was shot near Redondo Beach Boulevard as he and another man were headed to a Bible study.
Ricky Smith, 32, of San Bernardino was shot to death at the 62-15-91 interchange in Riverside County on April 22.
A veteran California Highway Patrol supervisor with a background in freeway shooting investigations recently told the Daily News that the CHP and other agencies repeatedly asked Caltrans to use their traffic-monitoring cameras as crime surveillance tools.
Your welcome in Texas, You and Travis !
>>Personally, I'd move.
What do you do, when it gets down to "no where to move to"?
At some point, people need to make a stand.
No, the shooters are illegal visitors from Mexico so, it's OK! This is just an attempt by those who have been shot and are still alive at racial profiling. Let's not annoy El President Fox and Mrs. Fox by quibbling over a few dead gringos!
Caltrans doesnt know how to record the feeds....they do have a lot of cameras.....
And since it isnt a budget item, would take a miracle to get them purchased in a negative budget environment.
you heading to austin?
I am jealous.
boo hoo.
I even saw some gang grafitti up in Caliente, CA.....nuts!
(middle of nowhere)
Exactly what good will that do, when a murderous criminal sticks his pistol out of his window and caps you in the head, with .5 seconds of warning, IF that?
Okay. Just shut up and take it then.
That's not what I said. I'm just pointing out that there's not much chance of a solo driver being able to shoot back in 0.5 seconds on the freeway.
"Not to mention, packing heat is basically illegal in Cali."
Personally, I'd move.
And millions of Americans are moving out. Question is, can America survive as a global superpower, after losing California? IF we abandon California to the immivasion, is that a solution, or just appeasement of a sort, backing up inch by inch, until our backs are to the wall?
It's a sad state of affairs, our fedgov winking at a "guest criminal" invasion. If they're not shirking their constitutional duty to protect us against invasion, I don't know what I'd call it.
My take is it's a gang initiation. Prove your macho manhood, by head capping a lone defenseless gringo.
What cowardly scum. If this keeps up, "shaved head Hispanic" could come to mean "enemy."
Another officer (officer March) was killed by an illegal too. The government has tied the hands of law enforcement with regards to illegals . They can't even ask them about their status.
They haven't been able to do anything about the gang problem either, thanks to liberals and the ACLU. I work in an area where there are many gangs. I've noticed in the last couple of months that they have taken to shooting at each other in broad daylight. They have no fear of the police. They know the cops can't really do anything to them.
What gets me is when someone gets shot in one of the bad neighborhoods i.e they (gangsters) miss the person they're aiming for and kill a child or a pregnant woman, and the family members all come out crying about how sad it is and they want justice exc... I want to ask them what they are crying about. They don't want the police in the neighborhood. They complain about the "racist cops" and do the whole victim mentality very well. I don't know why they cry just because it was their son or daughter who was killed. That's what happens when the police can't do their job because of "sensitivity" and "PC".
What is needed is an honest, unflinching, conversation with America, about what is really going on. No more covering up by the press about this problem. Real statistics need to be gathered of how many illegals are in our prisons, and, in detail, what types of crimes have they committed. How many illegals are receiving benefits, welfare, exc.? How much is it costing us? I would love to see a poll on how many legal aliens think illegal aliens should be given taxpayer funded benefits.
Hispanic families need to stop buying into liberal lies. They get hurt the most by leftist thinking, weather by thinking they don't have to learn English to make it here, or by thinking that it's gringo's fault that they aren't successful, or thinking that all white people have money trees growing in their back yards, and don't have to work to make money. (One of the myths they are told is that if they can just get here, somebody will hand them a stack of money. They get bitter when they learn this isn't true.)
Another point that should be made to illegal aliens, is that they are letting Vincente Fox off the hook whey they give up and illegally immigrate. (Why do they think their government hands out pamphlets on how to get here?).
He was elected supposedly so he could fix the problems, and help Mexico realize it's potential. (It has many natural resources that could be developed). But what has he done? The government prints manuals on how to illegally immigrate to the United States and he puts his feet up on his desk and relaxes. How's that helping the average Mexican citizen? Believe it or not, most illegals really didn't want to leave their families for years at a time and cross the desert, just so they could get a job. They would have preferred to be able to stay home.
Nothing is going to be resolved until people, including our own government, are willing to look at this issue without the blinders of PC on.
As for my looney bin state, unfortunately, nothing will be resolved. I assume, that when enough people have been shot dead in the streets, and in their cars on the freeways, or when they can't get anyone to join the police force because it amounts to a death wish (due to PC), and when people are so afraid that they won't leave their homes, maybe, just maybe, they will throw ALL the liberals out of office and opt to save themselves. Until then, this madness will continue.
I guess it costs a bit more than my mini-van.
it would be interesting if one could get the stats for the numbers of americans injured and killed in america by illegals.
living in border states you hear about it all the time.
i doubt that anyone keeps such stats for obvious reasons. the "r word" for one.
We'll be movng to FL in 2006. Far Western Floribama.
Question is, can America survive as a global superpower, after losing California?
Oh, these are the first shootings ever huh? Only on George's watch? Gratias Jorge, my foot.
That is great news.
I look forward to it.
"you can order a Lincoln Town Car armored from the factory"
What MILEAGE do they get ??
PC will be the death of us all.
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