Posted on 12/14/2005 9:22:17 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Milpitas detectives were working Tuesday to get to the bottom of a blast of bullets at a nightclub near the Great Mall last weekend that left two friends dead and two brothers arrested.
The killings were the city's first homicides since 2003. Dead are Trevor De Voe, 24, and Irwin Dillon, 20. The Santa Clara suspects, Nuuelva Sofara, 19, and his 16-year-old brother -- who has not yet been named because of his age -- are booked on homicide charges.
The two may be members of a local subset of the violent Crips gang, according to prosecutor Dave Tomkins.
``This is a group that has been around for a long time but they haven't done anything for a long time. Most of the older members are in jail, so this is a younger group,'' he said. Tomkins declined to provide the exact name of the gang subset.
The older Sofara may be arraigned today. Tomkins said he had not decided whether to charge the younger brother.
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The good work of Tookie lives on.
That 16 year old will be over forty by the time Old Pointy gets around to his arm...
They had just finished reading Tookie's latest children's book, most probably.
This is the real legacy of Stanley Williams. No matter how many childrens' books he wrote, there's no way he could undo the influence he's had on hundreds of thousands of young men who saw violent crime as a rite of manhood.
If he wanted to change the minds of young gangbangers, he could have started by not playing the justice system in a cynical effort to save his own butt.
I'm not a 100% believer in the death penalty, but if you're going to have it, then someone like "Tookie" certainly deserved it.
It is only because of poverty and oppression that makes these young men kill. So in reality they are heroes and role models.
I love sarcasm.
Thanks to the SCOTUS's reliance on international precedent, that 16 year old will never meet up with old pointy. Not as a result of this case, anyways. Perhaps after he's released he'll kill somebody else after he turns 18.
Thank God for Tookie and all the minds and hearts he changed since he began preaching an anti-gang mantra from behind bars.
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