Thread: LA: FOUR Month Old Baby is killed in apparent gang shooting

Baby is killed in apparent gang shooting
A pregnant family friend who was feeding the 4-month-old boy is wounded, as is a man who was standing by their car in Van Nuys.

September 28, 2009

Police said a shooting that killed a 4-month-old boy and wounded two others in Van Nuys early Sunday was prompted by an argument between rival gang members.

The baby, Andrew Garcia, was being fed by a family friend holding him in a car parked on Kittridge Street, near the site of a celebration. Anna Contreras, 28, the friend, and Eric Ramirez, who was standing outside the car, also were shot and wounded.

Det. James Nuttall of the Los Angeles Police Department said that the baby's father "is linked to a criminal street gang" and that Ramirez is a known gang member. Contreras and the boy's mother have no criminal histories, he said. The group had been at the celebration about a block and a half away, Nuttall said.

Two assailants, who are believed to be members of a rival gang, got into an argument with the group near the car between midnight and 12:30 a.m., Nuttall said.

One of the two fired a shotgun six times at the group and both ran away, police said. Ramirez, 18, was shot along with Contreras and the baby.

The infant was "caught in the middle of a gang confrontation," Nuttall said. "It's a disturbing crime scene."

Contreras, who is pregnant, and the baby were transported to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where the child died shortly afterward.

Contreras was in stable condition. Ramirez walked to nearby Valley Presbyterian Hospital.

Nuttall said police were asking for the public's help in identifying the assailants, adding that "somebody has to come forward."


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 2806.story

STOP KILLING the WOMEN, CHIDREN and the ELDERLY

are you people that sick, twisted and Perverted in the HEAD

Is that how you were raised

If the Federal Government are not able to do THEIR Job's because of GROSS INCOMPETANCE or GROSS NEGLECT of their DUTIES

It's time for them to go look for another job ... they gotta go

Not one more death, not one more murder, not one more rape

you get no do over's Napalitano, you get no freebee's Obama, You get no Excuses Harry Reid, you get no Sympathy Pelosi

Do your Damn Job Protecting America and it's citizens or get the hell out of the way