Lennox: December 2008 Archives

Trying to make Christmas and New Years a little safer, deputies at the Lennox station will be offering gift cards to people who turn in guns during a promotion next week.

The "Gift for Guns" program gives $100 gift cards to Target, and Ralphs and Food 4 Less supermarkets, in exchange for handguns and rifles. An assault rifle is worth $200.

"The hope is to take guns off the street and make the holidays safer for our communities, Lennox sheriff's Lt. Valentine Rosario said.

The promotion is Tuesday, Dec. 23 and Wednesday, Dec. 24 at Lennox Middle School, 11033 Buford Ave. in Lennox.

The Compton station did this recently and took in 965 weapons.

From City News Service

 

A man was killed in a drive-by shooting this morning in the unincorporated community of Lennox, authorities said.

 

The victim was standing in front of a building in the 10500 block of
South Firmona Avenue, near Inglewood Avenue and Lennox Boulevard, at about 3
a.m. when a light-colored vehicle pulled up, sheriff's Deputy Aura
Sierra said.

 

Someone inside exchanged words with the victim and then opened fire,
shooting him in the chest, Sierra said.

 

The man, whose name was withheld, died at a local hospital.