West Covina or Valinda or La Puente or Bassett
I got this email this afternoon pointing out a geographical fine point that is sometimes lost on me even though I know these neighborhoods.
Hopefully this clarifies any confusion in some of our reporting on the Paul Salazar Robert Whitehead story.
By the way, thanks for all the comments on the blog. I can't respond to all of them, but I do read all.
Here's the (somewhat edited) email
Dear Mr. Girardot: My parents purchased their home near where the crime against Mr. Whitehead occurred. Channel 9/Los Angeles also interviewed Mr. Whitehead's neighbor, who has lived on Moccasin for over 50 years. The reason I bring this up, every time a news organization reportson this crime, you all list it as occuring in West Valinda. The area this crime was committed is called Bassett, an unincorporated area of La Puente. All mail comes to 91746 at those homes, stamped as a LaPuente address. You also listed Mr. Salazar's home address near Bishop Amat HighSchool. I am a 1970 graduate of Bishop Amat myself. Mr. Salazar's home may be on the border of Valinda/West Covina as your article stated, however his address as well as the High School is La Puente. In the future it would be great if you could acknowledge the cities where this story has taken place. I am sure a lot of people from Bassett would like to extend their condolences to the Whitehead family, but did not realize that it was a family in Bassett, California. By the way Bassett also uses the zip code 91746 as does La Puente for that neighborhood. Just thought you might need this correct information.