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BALDWIN PARK -- A man was shot in the leg during a home invasion robbery Thursday, authorities said.
The incident occurred about 9:15 p.m. at a house in the 4000 block of Hornbrook Avenue, said Baldwin Park police Sgt. Doug Parnell.
A husband and wife in their 30s were in bed when two robbers, described as Latino men in their 40s wearing all black, cut through the screen of a sliding door and forced their way into the home, Parnell said.
One of the men was armed with a handgun, Parnell said, and they walked the victims around the house demanding to know where the money was kept.
The husband told the robbers his money was in the garage, but pressed a panic button on the way, Parnell said.
When the robbers ordered the man to shut it down, he told them he could only do so from the keypad in front of the home.
When the robbers escorted the man outside, he saw a neighbor and yelled to call 9-1-1, Parnell said.
One of the robbers shot the man in the leg and they both fled on foot, Parnell said.
The wounded man was treated at an area hospital and has since been released, he said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Baldwin Park Police Department at (626) 960-1955.

In Baldwin Park at least.

The gunfire continued Wednesday night when a car-to-car shooting was reported near the intersection of Nubia and Bleeker streets.

*Baldwin Park police officers sometimes forget to mention these crimes when we call, but that's why we have a scanner.

Oh, and the City Council? Well, Anthony Bejarano told me at a recent lunch meeting that the shootings, killings and other violent crimes occurring in Baldwin Park are a function of the socio-economic status of its residents...

In other words, poor people are more likely to commit crimes.

That of course doesnt' explain Phil Spector, OJ Simpson or the Kennedy and Skakel families ...

Detective said Sunday that the 16-year-old Baldwin Park boy killed in a drive-by shooting Saturday afternoon was related to a man and woman targeted in a fatal car-to-car shooting last month.

Ruben Chavera, who died at the scene of Saturday's shooting on Illinois Street near Idaho Street, is the cousin of 22-year-old Richard Pope, who died as the result of a May 20 shooting only a block away at the intersection of Ramona Boulevard and Merced Avenue, a homicide detective said.

Chavera's sister was also inside the car when Pope was fatally shot, but was not seriously injured, officials said.

Investigators believe there's a good chance the two shootings are related.

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Two guys used a handgun to rob a Pizza delivery man, One neighbor bashed another neighbor's head with a baseball bat, and a teen was stabbed in a parking lot. We're working on putting the details together.

It all happened in Baldwin Park late Friday and early Saturday .... we'll have it all rounded up in Sunday's paper.

BALDWIN PARK -- A local man remains hospitalized in serious but stable condition after he was shot during an argument Wednesday, authorities said.

The 31-year-old victim was shot multiple times in the upper torso by an unidentified attacker just after 11 p.m. in the 13200 block of Earl Avenue, near Ramona Boulevard, said Baldwin Park police Lt. David Reynoso.

"It appears the victim was at the house of an acquaintance when he became involved in a verbal dispute," Reynoso said. The victim's name was not released.

The two men went outside to the home's driveway when the shooter pulled a handgun and fired multiple times, Reynoso said.

The gunman, who was only described as a Latino man of about 35 years old, is being sought on suspicion of attempted murder, he said.

The wounded man was rushed to a local hospital where he underwent surgery, Reynoso said. Due to his medical condition, the victim has not yet been able to give police a complete account of the incident.

Police believe the victim and suspect know each other, Reynoso said.

Other than the argument, Reynoso said a motive was not known.

It was not clear of the shooting was gang related, and police declined to say whether the victim is believed to have gang ties.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Baldwin Park Police Department at (626) 960-1955.

This from the Daily Bulletin:

SAN DIMAS - An Asian man was stabbed in the face and torso during a hate crime attack at Lone Hill Middle School on Tuesday evening.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies said the attackers - a 15-year-old boy and a man in his 20s - shouted racial epithets while stabbing the man. "They were shouting out 'White power' or something like that," said sheriff's Lt. Roxanne Hart.

A white man who was walking with the victim at the school at 700 South Lone Hill Avenue about 8:30 p.m. received cuts and bruises from being punched by the pair, Hart said.

Paramedics flew the Asian man to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center where he was listed in critical condition.

Deputies identified the 15-year-old suspect and arrested him. The man in his 20s was not in custody, Hart said.

Three black males were targeted in a shooting on North Fair Oaks near Washington in Pasadena at 1:30 a.m., Tuesday.  Suspects in the case were described three Latino males in their 20s, Pasadena police told reporter Amanda Baumfeld.

The men were targeted for "no reason at all."

Meanwhile, officials continue to claim there is no racial undercurrent in recent violence on Southland streets. 

Brian Day got the photo in East Valinda near where two people were shot Easter Sunday. Just south of the candles, blood stains are still clearly visible.

Here's Brian's description of the photo:

Blood stains in the street mark the spot where a 17-year-old La Puente boy and his girlfriend, also 17 and from La Puente, were shot late Sunday. The boy remains hospitalized in critical condition, and the girl suffered a grazing wound and has been released from the hospital. Two unidientified men have been arrested in connection with the shooting. Though neither the wounded boy his girlfriend are gang members, officials believe the suspects are. The shooting occurred after the suspects asked the injured teens their gang affiliation.

 

 

Got this note via email. We do have some updated information on Friday's incident, but as for Saturday, we're still checking. Here's the note:

Hi Frank, any news on the two shootings in Baldwin Park last Thursday and Friday? (March 20th and 21st). Both happened on Barnes ave. I believe the Friday evening shooting was an attempted robbery . Two teens were injured. I been living here all my life and this is the worst gang activity I have ever heard of.

The shooting of 17-year-old Davien "Day Day" Graham got underway in Alhambra Tuesday with some chilling testimony from "Day Day," who recalled hearing someone holler a gang slogan before opening fire.

As a result of the shooting, Graham was paralyzed. The attack was part of a string of shootings that plagued Monrovia in December and January.

This from Fred Ortega, who attended the hearing for 19-year-old Jimmy Santana of Duarte, a suspected member of the Monrovia Nuevo Varrio 13 gang. Graham is black, Santana is Latino. Much of the violence has stemmed from an apparent race war, officials say.

He described how he was riding his bike back home from the dairy on Jan. 12 in unincorporated Monrovia when a burgundy compact rolled up slowly behind him.
“I heard someone say ‘Hey fool, (expletive) Dirt Rock,’ and then he started shooting,” said Graham, whose 17th birthday was on Monday. Dirt Rock in a derogatory term for the Du-Rock Crips, a Duarte-based black gang.

Pasadena police have set up a containment in the Northwest looking for a suspect in an apparent assault with a deadly weapon. They are bringing in the SWAT team and the armored vehicle.

Mentone and Stanton

Lincoln and Idaho

Lincoln and Howard

Lincoln and Wyoming

are several locations where the action is occuring.

The man who was stabbed after confronting taggers in Whittier Tuesday afternoon was taken to a local hospital. His condition remains unknown.

Police are saying the man was driving in a black Mustang when rolled up on taggers in the 11700 block of Broadway. He was stabbed with a boxcutter by a man wearing a shirt with the initials RIP. No one is in custody.

After being stabbed the man rolled out of his car and lay on the ground until help arrived.

This photo by freelancer James Carbone will run in tomorrow's Whittier Daily News

 

5) MAN DOWN: PASADENA - A 27-year-old man stabbed an unincorporatd Pasadena resident several times early Monday morning, police said.

4) TRAIN DOWN: INDUSTRY - A train narrowly missed striking a pedestrian Monday morning after the man jumped out of the way, officials said.

3) WOMAN DOWN: ROWLAND HEIGHTS - A 20-year-old woman was killed and a man was seriously injured in a car accident Sunday night.

2) TEEN DOWN: WHITTIER - A 17-year-old was shot and wounded Sunday in what was described as a gang-related shooting. The teen was riding a scooter near Norwalk Avenue and Balfour street at the time of the incident, officials said.

1) CRANK DOWN: MONROVIA - Three arrested Saturday in a car loaded with more that 6 ounces of crank. Two men and a woman were taken in to custody by the Monrovia police.