Two stabbed outside party in West Covina
WEST COVINA -- Two men and two teenagers were behind bars Saturday after allegedly stabbing two men during a fight outside a party, police said.
Alejandro Rodriguez, 18, of West Covina and Lawrence Corlew, 20, of Covina were booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, along with a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy, West Covina police Lt. David Rozeboom said.
The wounded men were found shortly after midnight Saturday in the 3700 block of Garvey Avenue South as police were responding to a complaint about a party nearby in the 100 block of Buckboard Circle, Rozeboom said.
"There was some issue with someone blocking the roadway," Rozeboom said, and several people began fighting.
Officers pulled over a car that was leaving the area and found the wounded men inside, he said.
The apparent victims, who are 20 and 21 years old, were stabbed in the leg and lower back and hospitalized with injuries not believed to be life-threatening, he said.
Rozeboom added the stabbing did not appear to be gang-related.
No one answered the door Saturday evening at the home where the party was held.
Initial news reports indicated the party was attended by teens wearing high school band and cheerleader uniforms, but police could not confirm that Saturday evening.
Neighbors in the area said they didn't seen anyone dressed in a uniform.
According to sheriff's booking records, Rodriguez and Corlew are due for arraignment Tuesday in West Covina Superior Court and are each being held in lieu of $30,000 bail.
The teenage suspects were taken to Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, Rozeboom said.
Saturday's stabbing was the third incident of violence at a West Covina house party reported in just over a week.
In the early morning hours of Nov. 1, 27-year-old Ramiro Limon Jr. of East Los Angeles was fatally shot outside a house party at Shadydale Avenue and Roxbury Street, police said. His brother, 40, was wounded in the attack.
On the night of Oct. 31, a 16-year-old Baldwin Park boy was shot in the shoulder when a fight broke out in front of a house party in the 1900 of E. Nanette Avenue.
Alejandro Rodriguez, 18, of West Covina and Lawrence Corlew, 20, of Covina were booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, along with a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy, West Covina police Lt. David Rozeboom said.
The wounded men were found shortly after midnight Saturday in the 3700 block of Garvey Avenue South as police were responding to a complaint about a party nearby in the 100 block of Buckboard Circle, Rozeboom said.
"There was some issue with someone blocking the roadway," Rozeboom said, and several people began fighting.
Officers pulled over a car that was leaving the area and found the wounded men inside, he said.
The apparent victims, who are 20 and 21 years old, were stabbed in the leg and lower back and hospitalized with injuries not believed to be life-threatening, he said.
Rozeboom added the stabbing did not appear to be gang-related.
No one answered the door Saturday evening at the home where the party was held.
Initial news reports indicated the party was attended by teens wearing high school band and cheerleader uniforms, but police could not confirm that Saturday evening.
Neighbors in the area said they didn't seen anyone dressed in a uniform.
According to sheriff's booking records, Rodriguez and Corlew are due for arraignment Tuesday in West Covina Superior Court and are each being held in lieu of $30,000 bail.
The teenage suspects were taken to Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, Rozeboom said.
Saturday's stabbing was the third incident of violence at a West Covina house party reported in just over a week.
In the early morning hours of Nov. 1, 27-year-old Ramiro Limon Jr. of East Los Angeles was fatally shot outside a house party at Shadydale Avenue and Roxbury Street, police said. His brother, 40, was wounded in the attack.
On the night of Oct. 31, a 16-year-old Baldwin Park boy was shot in the shoulder when a fight broke out in front of a house party in the 1900 of E. Nanette Avenue.
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Ramiro Limon - was not the type of guy who would start fights he was a hard working young man who worked tirelessly with his father in their business, he was a loving father and not a fighter i hope they find the scumbag who had the courage to pull a trigger and run away.