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  • Construction worker, 17, shot dead in his bed - Cousin who shared apartment believed to be in Sureño

    03/29/2005 6:33:55 PM PST · by SmithL · 9 replies · 607+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/29/5 | Demian Bulwa
    Edgar Martinez's father borrowed money last year from a friend in Antioch and paid for the 17-year-old to come north from Mexico. The teen worked in Bay Area housing construction, sending money to his mother and brother in Michoacan. But late Sunday night, a gunman wildly sprayed a dozen or more bullets into the small apartment building on West 20th Street where the father and son lived with three or four cousins. One of the rounds passed through the wall and killed Martinez as he slept next to his father, whom neighbors said had cried and begged his son to...
  • Graffiti war erupts into gang violence (dramatic increase in gang graffiti tied to Mexican Mafia)

    02/13/2005 3:03:20 PM PST · by seastay · 12 replies · 2,458+ views
    Chico Enterprise-Record ^ | February 11, 2005 | GREG WELTER
    ORLAND (CA) Police here did what they could to keep a graffiti war between rival gangs from escalating to violence, but on Wednesday it did. --- about 20 alleged Sureo gang members showed up outside a home in the 1100 block of Bonnie Lane, where six members of a rival Norteo gang were thought to be hiding. The larger group attempted to break in to the residence. The rival gang came outside to stop them and a fight began. --- Orland Police Chief Bob Pasero said a recent dramatic increase in gang-style graffiti around Orland pointed to the likelihood of...