A 30 year old female gangbanger murderer living in a taxpayer funded housing project...just doing a job Americans won't do! Thank you, Tony Villar...you're doing a heck of a job! Keep up the good work..you might get another term!

Woman Charged In Shooting Death On Freeway Off-Ramp
POSTED: 1:39 pm PDT April 15, 2008
UPDATED: 4:20 pm PDT April 15, 2008



LOS ANGELES -- An alleged gang member has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a 19-year-old woman near a freeway off-ramp in South Los Angeles.

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Jessica Ortega, 30, is scheduled to be arraigned May 1 at the downtown Los Angeles courthouse in connection with the April 10 killing of Samantha Padilla.

Police were searching for additional people involved in the incident.

Ortega, a resident of the Ramona Gardens public housing complex in Boyle Heights, was arrested Friday on suspicion of murder, Officer Jason Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Section said. Ortega and her vehicle, a Ford Bronco believed to have been involved in the shooting, were both taken into custody on Friday.

"Detectives are continuing their investigation and looking for other outstanding suspects," Lee said.

Detectives have not released details on the motive for the shooting.

Padilla, of Los Angeles, was fatally shot about 12:15 a.m. Thursday near the Slauson Avenue off-ramp of the northbound Harbor (110) Freeway, said LAPD Officer Kate Lopez of the Media Relations unit.

Padilla was stopped at a traffic light near the off-ramp when someone in a 1990-91 model light- brown-over-dark-brown Ford Bronco pulled up alongside and fired a number of shots into her car, striking her several times. Padilla died at a hospital about a half-hour later, police said.

Padilla, a baggage handler at Los Angeles International Airport, was on the way home from work when the shooting occurred, according to KNBC.

Anyone knowing more about the crime was urged to call LAPD detectives at 323-846-5363, or the 24-hour hotline 877-LAWFULL.

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