Deadly shooting on West side SB Saturday night
Details are sketchy but this much is clear: A 22-year-old man was killed and three boys wounded - one critically - in a hail of gunfire at Medical Center Drive and Ninth Street last night.
This is in one of the five proposed areas of Operation Phoenix expansion and will probably trigger renewed calls that the anti-crime program should be focused next on the West side.
This is a very troubled neighborhood, not far from where children - incdluding 11-year-old Anthony Ramirez and 14-year-old Jarred Mitchell were gunned down last year.
Below is a story launched on the Sun Web site this morning ...
10:45 p.m.: One dead; boy in critical condition after S.B. shooting
Staff report
Article Launched: 10/21/2007 10:34:46 AM PDT
SAN BERNARDINO - A 22-year-old man died and a 9-year-old boy was in critical condition following a shooting Saturday night.
The shooting occurred before 8 p.m.
Officers had taped off the crime scene on Medical Center Drive, south of 9th Street, late Saturday.
When police responded to the scene they found Devon McGee, 22, of San Bernardino on the ground suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to a local hospital and declared dead, according to a San Bernardino police news release.
Within minutes of the shooting, three boys suffering from gunshot wounds arrived at the hospital. They all came from the shooting that took the life of McGee.
One of the victims was the 9-year-old boy. The boy had been hit by a stray bullet as he approached a taco stand with his father. The boy is in critical condition at a local hospital.
The other two victims were 14- and 16-years-old.
I Have Stayed In San Bernardino all of my life and it just keeps going down. It dose'nt surprise you anymore. How sad?
with the influx of people that moved out here to san bernardino our city has not done anything to improve our police force they are out manned!!!!! i see our officers patroling by themselves. it will be only a matter of time before i will read that one of our brave officers has been gunned down by some psyco these officers cannot not be out in these streets patroling by themselves this is not mayberry those day's are over these officers need help now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
San bernardino it sit's on the valley of death and evryone who is out will lose someone they love because that placed has a curse you need more than the police too help the poor people out there suffering from all the madness and mayham It's sad and I pray for all my loved ones out there mourning this tragic death
i rememember devion mcgee man he was cool funny and very out going i am really sorry for his death and he made his way over here just to mess with my boy's to play catch with them devion armand and marquez are going to miss you so much you very much love danita jackson
i rememember devion mcgee man he was cool funny and very out going i am really sorry for his death and he made his way over here just to mess with my boy's to play catch with them devion armand and marquez are going to miss you so much you very much love danita jackson