After reading about the apparent murders of five homeless people who were found dead today in Long Beach, I realized the site where the bodies were discovered is less than three-quarters of a mile from the location of a planned Los Angeles Unified campus.
Of course, there does not appear to be any link whatsoever, but I thought I'd point it out.
Here is a map that is close to where the bodies were found. (The LAUSD site is to the north, northeast of the intersection of Santa Fe Avenue and Carson Street. The San Diego (405) Freeway runs between the school site and the place where the bodies were found.)
The district just broke ground on the site Oct. 23. The planned new high school that would cater larger to Carson students. It is being build on property that the district purchased in the city of Long Beach, which is continuing a legal battle against the district to stop the project.
The campus is next to a Dominguez Park and Dominguez Elementary School (both are to the north). To the west and north of the school are more residential areas.
To the south, closer to the site where the bodies were found, is a large shipping container yard. The areas south and east of the campus are largely industrial, which caused some critics of the district's plans to call the site inappropriate.
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