Posted on 06/09/2008 4:38:21 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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It was an unusually deadly weekend in Los Angeles County, with at least 12 people murdered, many of them in gang-related crimes, compared to two or three homicides on an average day.
In Panorama City, one person was killed and another injured this afternoon in an apparent gang-related shooting, police said.
Around 2 p.m., a suspect on a bike approached both victims in the 8400 block of Greenbush Avenue, near Roscoe Boulevard, said Los Angeles Police Officer Sara Faden of the Media Relations Section. The suspect asked the two about their gang affiliations and then shot them.
One of the victims died at the scene. The other was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition, Faden said. The suspect fled.
About 2:40 a.m., also in Panorama City, Soccoro Lopez, 29, was found shot in his torso in a parked vehicle near Nordhoff Street and Columbus Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Lopez, who was sitting in the driver's seat, died at the scene.
Kenneth Harris, who was described as a local transient, was later arrested in connection with the shooting, police said. He was being held at the Valley Jail in Van Nuys in lieu of $1 million bail.
Someone was shot to death at Hill and 23rd streets in the Newton area south of downtown about 2 a.m., police said. A dispute between people in separate vehicles may have led to the shooting.
Saturday afternoon, 16-year-old Ruben Chavera of Baldwin Hills was killed. Chavera was standing on the south sidewalk of Illinois Street between Idaho Street and Kenmore Avenue when a vehicle rolled up and someone inside fired three shots, according to Deputy Byron Ward and the coroner's office. Chavera died at the scene.
Another person was shot to death in Watts about 1:20 a.m., said Los Angeles police Sgt. Rachel Canchola of the Southeast Station.
About 6 p.m. Saturday, a man in his 20s was shot in South Los Angeles and declared dead at a hospital, police said.
The body of a man in his 30s that had apparently been wrapped and dumped was found Saturday in Arleta, police said. The man's body was found just after midnight on a sidewalk in the 9100 block of Bartee Avenue and appeared to have died from multiple wounds to his torso, police said.
In Southeast Los Angeles, a 20-year-old man was killed Saturday night when three men shot him several times, another report said.
Another killing in the area early Sunday also may have been gang- related, Faden told The Times. The victim was identified as 20-year-old Edward Jones Jr.
The Times also reported that a man in his early 20s was fatally near Perlita and Veselich avenues in northeast Los Angeles about 7:45 p.m. Saturday, and in North Hollywood, a 40-year-old man was killed shortly before midnight Saturday when another man hit him with a bottle and stabbed him with the broken glass.
Wonderful Caleeforia.
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Whatever
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Only 12?
It's an unwinable situation.
Summertime and the killing is easy.
Too bad that PC Bratton doesn’t have a Rudy for Mayor.
It is the influx of certain mindsets, (ahem), that have destroyed a once very beautiful place. Thank you politicians
Take a good look folks, this is what coming to your town too. Its' only a matter of time, no matter who gets elected.
Carley, that post was not directed to you but rather the original poster...sorry ;)
I’m waiting to hear Queen Pelosi call for a pullout because we’re losing the war, echoed by Boxer and Feinstein.
I guess the city council forgot to declare another peace weekend.
“many of them in gang-related crimes”
Doing the killing Americans won’t do.
Gangs do a better job of policing themselves than most
city councils.
Those are the ones they found...
Bump!
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