Thread: Reputed Latino gang members charged in shooting black girl

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 8792.story

Two reputed members of a Latino street gang known for attacks on blacks were charged Tuesday with capital murder and a hate crime in the killing of a 14-year-old African American girl.

Ernesto Alcarez, 20, and Jonathan Fajardo, 18, both of Los Angeles were arraigned at Los Angeles County Superior Court in Long Beach on counts of murder and attempted first-degree murder in the Dec. 15 fatal shooting of Cheryl Greene.

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Both are charged with the special circumstances of murder to further a gang and murder based on race, which make them subject to the death penalty, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Ron Goudy.

The case will be turned over to the district attorney's Hate Crimes Unit, which will decide whether to seek the death penalty, he said.

The crime occurred in the 20600 block of South Harvard Boulevard in Los Angeles after two Latino men approached a group of black people. Alcarez allegedly pulled a gun and fired several shots, killing Greene, Goudy said.

Two women and a man received minor wounds in the afternoon attack, and three other people escaped injury.

Alcarez and Fajardo are alleged to be members of the 204th Street gang in the Harbor Gateway area. The Latino gang has a history dating back to the mid-1990s of hate crimes against blacks, ranging from racist graffiti to murder, Los Angeles police say.

In 2002, alleged gang member Marco Milla was convicted of murder and five counts of attempted murder after firing into a group of black people, killing one man at a liquor store near 204th Street and Harvard Boulevard.

The gang claims the liquor store as its territory and blacks have long considered it off-limits, say police and community members.

Greene's death sparked a rally Saturday of more than 100 people, many of them African Americans, who walked down 204th Street to the liquor store.

"It was an act of defiance," said Najee Ali, a participant and community activist. "Anyone from the community should have the right to walk and shop wherever they please."

Ali said the gang's numbers had declined recently, but that blacks in the area feared the gang would regroup.

"This is a very vicious and cruel gang who has shown a tremendous hatred toward blacks in that community," he said.

This is horrible to kill an innocent 14 year old girl. Everyone is America has a right to shop where they want to shop. The FBI should round this entire gang up!

All these gangs, how many years now has America had to endure this insanity. Gangs should have been outlawed in this country years ago. Now we have thousands of illegally imported ones too.

These gangs should be given the same focus as terrorist.

This should qualify for the death penalty sentence, I would hope!

MORE BLOOD ON BUSH'S HANDS..HE'S RESPONSIBLE..SIMPLY BECAUSE WITH A STROKE OF THE PEN, THIS WHOLE MESS CAN BE DONE AWAY WITH IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME

IMPEACH THE TRAITOR WHO IS GUILTY OF AIDING AND ABETTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND IS GUILTY OF WRONGFUL DEATH.

Yep, more blood on bush's hands.

They hanged the wrong man Saturday morning or at least there was plenty of room for bush, cheyney, rumsfield, rice and on and on.
Hussein was an evil man, but he was not our problem or any threat to us by any stretch of the imagination.

We are being bamboozeled, scamed, lied to, and sold out by the most traiterous, evil, warmongering elitists the world has ever known.

This all going to come to a head in the next few years, and I for one WILL not go without a fight, at least if I die, Ill die an American!

Did any church people who wail about human rights for illegals
go down & march with these American citizens for their right to
safely walk down American streets?

This is a tragedy for sure. Our Representatives obviously feel no responsibility for or obligation to stop it. I feel for the parents of this 14 yo and hope the perps and many/most in our government rot in hell. Maybe we will all get our fill and actually do something about it before it literally becomes too late. (maybe it already is)

However having said that I also despise the idea of "hate crimes". "Some are more equal than others" as Orwell would say. Anybody know for sure how this will be categorized? Bet you dollar to donuts this will be listed as a white on black "hate crime".

kinda shoots holes in the Black & Brown unity thing now doesnt it?