婴儿杀死在瓦马刺 $100,000 奖励报价

1岁被枪杀，而在父亲的怀抱, 谁可能是因为他穿的颜色误认为是黑帮成员. 警察局长查理·贝克称死亡“一个可怕的悲剧。’

由山姆·凯诺, 安德鲁Blankstein和乔尔·鲁宾, 洛杉矶时报

8:54 下午PDT, 六月 5, 2012

一个1岁的瓦男孩谁被枪杀，而抱在杀害他父亲的怀里杀害带来了慷慨激昂的呼吁，市民的帮助下周二当局，并提出了主要的当地法人 $100,000 消息导致射手的捕捉.

天使莫罗科迪斯 - 纳瓦杀害如下一段暴力的两个敌对帮派之间, 和洛杉矶警察局侦探说，杀害似乎是相关的. Although the victim’s father was not a gang member, he may have been mistaken for one because he was wearing a purple T-shirt, witnesses and area residents said.

周二, Police Chief Charlie Beck called the boy’s death “an awful tragedy.”

“Gang violence touches everybody,” 贝克说. “People have to understand that even though gangs may target each other, victims cross a wide, broad swath.”

枪击事件发生在约 7:50 下午. Monday on the sidewalk near 105th and Hickory streets. The victim’s father, Mauro Cortez, had just donned a purple T-shirt a friend had given him.

“I own a Honda,” the shirt said. “Be nice to me.” But as Cortez’s extended family congregated outside the home, his stepfather and stepbrothers urged the 21-year-old construction worker to remove the shirt, 目击者说，. Purple had become a dangerous color since last summer, when the area experienced a number of shootings involving a black gang known as Fudgetown and a rival Latino gang, called Barrio Grape Street, which uses the color purple.

An immigrant from rural Mexico, Cortez “didn’t know nothing about people killing each other over the color purple,” said Luis Ramos, 朋友. “He barely speaks English.”

Witnesses say Cortez was still wearing the shirt and holding his son when a black youth in a dark hoodie rode up to the group on a bicycle, fired a gun into the crowd and pedaled off. The bullet pierced the toddler’s back and struck Cortez in the upper body. The boy died later that night at a hospital after emergency surgery, according to authorities.

周二, a memorial to “Maurito” stood outside the family’s home. 纸板上市标语牌他的出生日期 - 四月 1, 2011 - 死亡, 伴随着他的照片作为一个新生和一个三岁的孩子顶上摇马.

在下午的新闻发布会, 毛罗科尔特斯记者在西班牙语简要发言, 然后离开了讲台流泪.

副警察总监帕特甘农举行了孩子的照片, 他称之为 “这个美丽的小天使,” 并说，城市是提供 $50,000 奖励信息，导致凶手的捕捉. 几个小时后，, 蒂莫西Leiweke, AEG总裁, 该公司拥有洛杉矶国王, 提供了一个额外的 $50,000.

朋友和家人说，科尔特斯是从哈利斯科州的墨西哥国家谁做零工移民. 他表现出了寻找遗失在三年前和塞万提斯家庭收留了他, 萨拉说塞万提斯, 家庭的女家长.

从那时起, 他住在一起的Cervanteses. 后来他结婚了, 并于4月 2011 他和妻子有了第一个孩子 - 天使.

玛丽亚·特鲁希略, 大家庭的其他成员, 说：: “他总是在这里玩的宝宝. 宝宝是他的生命.

“有了这些枪击事, 你不觉得安全在自己frontyard,” 她补充说.

社区是一个小街道, 灰泥的平房东侧瓦塔的几个街区. 直到周一晚上, 山核桃街, 虽然平行葡萄街一个街区到西部, 一直没有受到打群架.

驻米格尔·梅迪纳, 一个失业的建筑工人从墨西哥, 一直住在大街上五年. “这是帮派,” 他说：. “当我来到这里是平静, 但随后他们开始互相残杀。”

拉莫斯, 一位长期居住面积, 说，许多Fudgetown成员已经转移到圣伯纳迪诺, 但是从那里已成为几乎通勤帮派, 与巴里奥葡萄街瓦茨经常回到战争.

上尉. 菲尔Tingirides说，两个帮派之间最近发生的问题迄今去年.

“这是相当一个夏天,” 他说：. “我们有枪击案不断地从四月下旬到九月初。” 两个Fudgetown成员住在圣贝纳迪诺九月逮捕了一个似乎要突然停止暴力, 他说：.

该男子最近下令出庭受审的谋杀, 而办案民警推测，周一的拍摄可能已经刺激了该团伙的愤怒在其成员的捕获和起诉.

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