Thread: CA: Arrests made in Monday shooting near Birmingham High Sch

Arrests made in Monday shooting near Birmingham High School
BY JASON KANDEL, Staff Writer
LA Daily News
Article Last Updated:09/14/2007 02:35:30 PM PDT

VAN NUYS - Two members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang are in custody in connection with the shooting Monday afternoon at a fast-food restaurant near Birmingham High School in Van Nuys and are believed responsible for at least three other shootings - none fatal - in the San Fernando Valley since August.
Walter Guerra, a documented member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, and Sanderson Montes, both 18, were arrested this morning at their homes, in connection with the apparent gang-related attack on Monday, which left a man hospitalized and was unrelated to the school, said Los Angeles Capt. James Miller.

In that shooting, a 23-year-old man was shot in the leg and elbow by two Latino males who approached him as he sat at a Jack In The Box Restaurant on Vanowen Street, just east of Balboa Boulevard, near Birmingham High School, said LAPD Sgt. Teresa Wilson.

Police received a call that some males "shot at students as they were walking by (nearby Millie's) restaurant," said LAPD Sgt. Teresa Wilson.

The men are believed to be responsible for a July shooting at Millie's in which a 20-year-old man was shot in the head after a parking-lot argument escalated into a shooting. He survived.

Police are investigating whether the men are also responsible for an Aug. 4 robbery in the West Valley area in which a gun was fired. No one was hit, Miller said, and another shooting Aug. 6 in Van Nuys. More details were expected to come out at an afternoon press conference.

A gun has not been recovered, Miller said.

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Curtasy of Bush and Chertoff.

The Jack in the box now has a new meaning and murder seems to be common place to the point we are desensitized

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