Baldwin Park: March 2008 Archives

Arraignment for Roy Perez has been postponed to April 7. Perez, is accused of killing his mother, a neighbor and her 4-year-old daughter and critically injuring the neighbor’s two other children during a shooting rampage in Baldwin Park last month.

Sheriff's homicide Lt. Dan Rosenberg said Perez was found by Baldwin Park police in front of his residence in the 14500 block of Rockenbach Street, where authorities said he lived with his mother, sister, niece and nephew.

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.

Yesterday, I asked to cover a press conference called by the CHP as part of their effort to find clues in the search for a killer who shot a woman to death on the 10 freeway late Wednesday night.

I worte a version of the story for the Tribune, which didn't appear in the newspaper-- but is online here.

That same version of the story was put in a common folder used at our sister paper the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Here's that version.

What's interesting to me (and my reason for sharing the stories) is to point out how news can vary from community to community -- even when those communities are only a few miles apart. The Pomona story absolutely needed the context of pointing out that two shootings occurred there in a short period of time. On the other hand, the story for SGVN didn't really need the context of Pomona, but is important because of the San Bernardino Freeway connection.

Here's the original photo caption:

California Highway Patrol commander Bill Siegl (cq) asks for the help of any witnesses to a freeway shooting on the eastbound San Bernardino (10) Freeway at White Avenue in Pomona at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday March 12, 2008.   The victim, Deborah Lynn Lepper, 54, of Montclair, died at an area hospital a few hours after the shooting.  Siegl is pictured at a press conference at the Baldwin Park CHP station March 13, 2008.(SGVN/Staff photo by Leo Jarzomb/SVCITY)

David Gundersen used to be a cop in Baldwin Park. He moved out and up. First stopping in Adelanto then moving on to Blue Lake, a small city near Eureka, where he became chief.

Just before Valentine's Day this year, Dave got himself arrested -- for rape. Ultimately he was booked and arraigned on 19 felony counts.

His colleagues and neighbors say Dave's a nice guy.

Here's what the officials are telling the Eureka Times-Standard. There's much more to this story....