Pomona: March 2008 Archives

This from the Associated Press:

POMONA, Calif. (AP) - Security has been stepped up at Cal Poly Pomona after a campus stabbing and a parking lot assault.

Campus police said a 21-year-old woman was stabbed Wednesday morning in a second-floor bathroom. The woman told authorities that she was grabbed from behind and was stabbed in the abdomen with her own pocket knife during a struggle. She was taken to a hospital and was expected to recover.

There is extensive coverage in the Ontario Daily Bulletin here:

Women walking to and from classes Thursday afternoon said they were concerned about campus safety.

"I don't feel safe at night and I have a class (that ends) at 10," said Freshman Diana Argueta. Argueta explained that her class ends at 10 p.m.

Argueta said she does feel safe during the day when there are other people around her.

 

 

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)

According to the state's Megan's Law Web-site there's at least four convicted sex offenders living at the Stardust Motel 433 East. Foothill in Pomona, BTW that's just across the border from La Verne. Meet the crew:

ROLAND JAY GEORGE

288(a) LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS ACTS WITH CHILD UNDER 14 YEARS

ROBERT LEE HOWARD 

288 CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN/LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS

RICHARD ORONA 

288(a) LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS ACTS WITH CHILD UNDER 14 YEARS

CHARLES CALVIN SWOGGER 

288(a) LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS ACTS WITH CHILD UNDER 14 YEARS