Post by ifayomi on Dec 19, 2006 22:13:23 GMT -5
Dec 19, 2006 11:39 am US/Pacific
Teen Girl Shot In Racially Motivated Hate Crime
(CBS) LOS ANGELES The killing of a 14-year-old black girl in the Harbor
Gateway area of Los Angeles was racially motivated, and the Hispanic gunman
remains at large, police said Tuesday.
"We are labeling it as a hate crime," said Officer Martha Garcia of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations office.
Cheryl Green was fatally shot about 3:10 p.m. Friday near 206th Street and
Harvard Boulevard, Garcia said.
Three other teens -- two girls and a boy -- were also wounded, but survived,
Garcia said.
"It just makes no sense to me," Cheryl's 19-year-old brother, David Cary,
told the Daily Breeze. "She had her whole life ahead of her. ... Just
because of the color of her skin."
Cheryl was shot about a block from her home.
The killer opened fire on the girl and her teenage friends as they stood on
a corner.
Family members believe they were targeted because of their race, the
newspaper reported.
The Stephen M. White Middle School eighth-grader possibly became the latest
innocent victim in the escalating battle between Hispanic and black gangs in
Harbor Gateway, the newspaper reported.
According to the newspaper, the area north of 206th Street between Western
and Normandie avenues is Hispanic, and the area south of 206th is black.
Cheryl -- who had nothing to do with gangs -- was on the black side of the
line when she was shot.
Police said a Hispanic gunman walked up to Cheryl and seven friends hanging
out just an hour after school ended. Winter vacation had just begun when the
shooter opened fire.
"It's another senseless act of violence," LAPD Harbor Station Detective Mike
Falvo said. "It's pretty disgusting."
Teens told Cheryl's family the gunman was young, possibly Cheryl's age, and
he appeared scared as he pulled the trigger.
The bullet, Cheryl's siblings said, grazed a girlfriend's head before
hitting Cheryl's side.
Cheryl's friends rushed her and the three other wounded teens in their own
car to a hospital, where doctors told them Cheryl had died instantly.
The Harbor Gateway has been a treacherous place for blacks and Hispanics
since the mid- to late-1990s, when blacks started moving into the largely
Hispanic area, the newspaper reported.
Numerous racially motivated shootings and killings have occurred on both
sides of the line and blacks have found racial epithets scrawled on their
homes soon after moving in.
http://cbs2. com/local/ local_story_ 353144300. html
Ifayomi Note
This is sad, seeing that we are somewhat in the same boat. Seems as if everybody and their mama's are against us. What shouts at me at this present moment, is how I have tried to understand the plight of Mexicans how we are pitted against each other by the system.
anyway this is sad
May she find Uhuru with the Ancestors
Osunkoya-Ifayomi
Teen Girl Shot In Racially Motivated Hate Crime
(CBS) LOS ANGELES The killing of a 14-year-old black girl in the Harbor
Gateway area of Los Angeles was racially motivated, and the Hispanic gunman
remains at large, police said Tuesday.
"We are labeling it as a hate crime," said Officer Martha Garcia of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations office.
Cheryl Green was fatally shot about 3:10 p.m. Friday near 206th Street and
Harvard Boulevard, Garcia said.
Three other teens -- two girls and a boy -- were also wounded, but survived,
Garcia said.
"It just makes no sense to me," Cheryl's 19-year-old brother, David Cary,
told the Daily Breeze. "She had her whole life ahead of her. ... Just
because of the color of her skin."
Cheryl was shot about a block from her home.
The killer opened fire on the girl and her teenage friends as they stood on
a corner.
Family members believe they were targeted because of their race, the
newspaper reported.
The Stephen M. White Middle School eighth-grader possibly became the latest
innocent victim in the escalating battle between Hispanic and black gangs in
Harbor Gateway, the newspaper reported.
According to the newspaper, the area north of 206th Street between Western
and Normandie avenues is Hispanic, and the area south of 206th is black.
Cheryl -- who had nothing to do with gangs -- was on the black side of the
line when she was shot.
Police said a Hispanic gunman walked up to Cheryl and seven friends hanging
out just an hour after school ended. Winter vacation had just begun when the
shooter opened fire.
"It's another senseless act of violence," LAPD Harbor Station Detective Mike
Falvo said. "It's pretty disgusting."
Teens told Cheryl's family the gunman was young, possibly Cheryl's age, and
he appeared scared as he pulled the trigger.
The bullet, Cheryl's siblings said, grazed a girlfriend's head before
hitting Cheryl's side.
Cheryl's friends rushed her and the three other wounded teens in their own
car to a hospital, where doctors told them Cheryl had died instantly.
The Harbor Gateway has been a treacherous place for blacks and Hispanics
since the mid- to late-1990s, when blacks started moving into the largely
Hispanic area, the newspaper reported.
Numerous racially motivated shootings and killings have occurred on both
sides of the line and blacks have found racial epithets scrawled on their
homes soon after moving in.
http://cbs2. com/local/ local_story_ 353144300. html
Ifayomi Note
This is sad, seeing that we are somewhat in the same boat. Seems as if everybody and their mama's are against us. What shouts at me at this present moment, is how I have tried to understand the plight of Mexicans how we are pitted against each other by the system.
anyway this is sad
May she find Uhuru with the Ancestors
Osunkoya-Ifayomi