Sep 7, 2008 3:02 pm US/Pacific
Bloody Sunday: Fatal Shootings Rock Southland
LOS ANGELES
It was a particularly hard night for homicide detectives in Los Angeles. Murders were reported in Carson, Woodland Hills, Compton, South Gate, Riverside (where there was also a murder-suicide) and two more murders in South Angeles. In addition, two non-fatal shootings were also reported, one in Arleta and another in San Pedro.
The first reported murder was a shooting in Carson.
Police say the shooting occured around 9:40 p.m. in the 800 block of East Lincoln Street, near Wilmington Ave.
Deputy Byron Ward of the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau said the victim was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Meanwhile, investigators were looking into the fatal stabbing of a 42-year-old man behind a liquor store in Woodland Hills.
Police Sargeant Charles Wunder, of the West Valley Station, said the man was stabbed, multiple times, near Ventura Boulevard and Don Pio Drive about midnight.
The victim was reported to be a transient.
Police are looking for a heavyset white male who was last seen wearing light-colored clothing.
Anyone with information on the stabbing was asked to contact West Valley Homicide detectives at (818) 374-7725 or (877) LAW-FULL.
Just after a midnight, police say a boy (age not reported) was shot to death in South Gate.
The shooting occured about 12:05 in the 3200 block of Tecumseh Ave., according to Deputy Ward.
A doorman shot to death outside the Compton bar he worked was identified Sunday as a 35-year-old Paramount man.
Raul Rene Gonzales was killed about 1:15 Saturday after a patron called him outside, according to coroner's investigator Kelli Blanchard.
Deputy Rick Pedroza said Gonzales was shot three times in the upper body.
The gunman fled and he remains at large.
Just before midnight, a gunman shot and fatally injured a 25-year-old man as he stood in front of his home in South Los Angeles.
About 11:20 p.m., a gunman shot the unidentified man in the head and fled, according to police spokesperson Julianne Sohn.
The shooting occured in the 600 block of West 99th Street.
A 41-year-old man was shot and killed in a Riverside park just before 11 p.m., according to officials.
Manuel Augustin Flores of Riverside was in John Bryant Park in the Arlington section of Riverside when he was shot by an unknown assailant several times.
Flores was taken to Parkview Community Hospital Medical Center where he was pronounced dead about 40 minutes after being shot.
Police asked anyone with information about the deadly shooting to call detective Mike Medici at 951-353-7104.
Sunday afternoon, police also reported that a 76-year-old Beaumont woman and an unidentified man were both found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in Riverside County.
Police say a man called 911 and reported killing Ana Maria Greer in the 900 block of Orange Ave before turning the gun on himself before a SWAT team entered the home.
Anyone with information about the shooting was asked to contact Beaumont police at (951) 769-8500.
The deadly blood trail continued Sunday morning in South Los Angeles where a 34-year-old man was gunned down at about 10:10 at 940 West 48th St., according to Kate Lopez, a spokeswoman for the LAPD.
The suspect in that attack, described as a man in his mid 20s, fled the scene in an unknown vehicle, says Lopez.
One man was shot in a non-fatal attack in Arleta.
The victim is 34 and was shot multiple times in the chest and arms, say police.
The man was shot on the northwest corner of Osborne and Remick Ave. near a taco truck.
Sargeant Derek Brown, of the Foothill Station, said the victim was taken to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center and is expected to survive.
In San Pedro, police arrested a man who shot an In-N-Out security guard in the buttocks following an argument.
The shooting occured about 9:30 p.m. at 1090 S. Western Ave., according to a police lieutenant.
The guard's name was withheld.
He was taken to an area hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.
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