Thread: L.A. mayor seeks federal aid to combat gangs

And I'll bet that STUPID tony just can't figure out what happened. The Capitan said it all pretty clear. Just too bad that the decent people of LA have to suffer because of STUPID tony's ignorance.

Welcome to Alipac BHunter.

I also agree with Capt.

Dixie

Maybe he should sell some of his toilet brushes.

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Teen shot in Van Nuys
Name: Johnny Cano
Date: Saturday, January 6, 2007
Address: 7200 Van Nuys Blvd.

http://www.dailynews.com/homicides

GANG RELATED : SHOT

I agree with all you've stated regarding LA's sanctuary policy. If LA is not willing to do all it can to go after illegals in its midst, the source of this problem, then they will be left to stew in the rot they have created. Federal taxpayer dollars should not go to bail them out when they are unwilling to do what's needed to help themselves.

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#1 HOMOCIDE OF 2007 FOR SAN FERNANDO VALLEY


Slain good kid, 15, mistakenly dressed to kill

Gangster probably thought victim a rival, police think

BY RICK COCA, Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 01/10/2007 10:04:40 PM PST


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Jan 11:

Cops, neighbors huddle on crimeA 15-year-old boy shot and killed Saturday in Van Nuys as he returned from running an errand for his sister was apparently mistaken by his attacker for a gang member.

Police said that Johnny Cano, originally reported to be 16, was not a gang member, but a good kid and a good student - in the wrong clothes.

Wearing baggy khaki pants and a dark-colored flannel shirt - clothes associated with gang members - Cano was walking home from a shopping center near Sherman Way and Van Nuys Boulevard when he was attacked. A Latino male, 18 to 20 years old, wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt and white baggy shorts, approached Cano and shot him several times before fleeing in a white passenger car, said Detective Craig Rhudy of the Los Angeles Police Department.

"Most of the people that dress that way that get killed in Van Nuys are gang members," Rhudy said. "It's really dangerous to dress that way."

Street gangs battle it out in a competition for territory in the area where the shooting occurred, Rhudy said. Police said Cano might not have been known that.

Police said Saturday's fatal shooting underscores the risks young people take when emulating their favorite rap or hip-hop stars, who often don fashions inspired by prison and gang culture.

Rhudy said Cano's family believed that his fashion choices put him at risk.

"They did have an idea he was dressing that way, and they did try to get him to stop, and apparently they weren't successful," Rhudy said. "I think he probably thought it was cool to dress that way at school, and he didn't think that it would lead to his death.

"Unfortunately, he was wrong."

Police, city officials and activists are hammering out ways to combat the escalating gang shootings and homicides, including a shooting in which two teenage boys were wounded Tuesday outside of Grant High School.

While alternatives are debated, Rhudy offered up some advice for young people.

"If they don't have shaved heads, don't have visible tattoos, don't have baggy pants, they're probably not going to be bothered," he said. "You can also avoid being stopped by the police if you're not wearing gang attire in a gang neighborhood.

"It's sad when someone dies," he said.

If you have any information on this homicide, call Van Nuys detectives at (81 374-0040 or, after business hours, at (81 374-1963.

rick.coca@dailynews.com

(81 713-3329

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_4989914