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2005-05-04 06:07 | User Profile

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]There has been a rash of deadly freeway shootings in southern <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />California. According to television reports survivors have described the shooters as “Hispanic,” or having “shaved heads,” or driving “lowrider” vehicles. The media and police are downplaying the race angle and claim the shootings “are not connected.” Most, if not all of the shootings have followed the media blitz about The Minuteman Project and the Indian gang, MS-13. Could the shootings and threats made by MS-13 be connected?[/size][/font]

[font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]------------------------[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [url="http://tinyurl.com/bqcla"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#0000ff]http://tinyurl.com/bqcla[/color][/size][/font][/url] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] **[size=3][font=Times New Roman]Copycats Feared in Freeway Shootings[/font][/size]** [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The most recent series of shootings began when Jake Tuason, a 26-year-old Fontana engineer, was shot in the head about 1 p.m. March 12 on the Costa Mesa Freeway. The bullet was fired from an adjacent car in the carpool lane, and officers have no suspects or a clear idea of what happened. Two weeks later, Long Beach college student Michael Livingston, 20, was gunned down about 2 p.m. March 29 in his silver Chevrolet Camaro in heavy traffic on the Harbor Freeway.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]About five miles away on the same freeway, car salesman James Wiggins, 47, was fatally shot about 2:10 p.m. April 13 while he and a friend were on the way to Bible study.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Ricky Smith, 32, of San Bernardino was killed about 2:30 a.m. Friday when his sport-utility vehicle was riddled with bullets by someone shooting out of a passing Chevrolet Monte Carlo on the 60 Freeway in Riverside.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Then a Tustin man was shot in the neck about 1:45 a.m. Sunday on the same part of the Costa Mesa Freeway where Tuason was killed. The unidentified victim was able to drive himself to a hospital about three miles away and was expected to live.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]------------------------[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [url="http://www.laobserved.com/archive/003455.html"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://www.laobserved.com/archive/003455.html[/color][/size][/font][/url] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] **[size=3][font=Times New Roman]Two more freeway shootings[/font][/size]** [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Today on the 14 Freeway near Santa Clarita, gunshots reportedly from a dark-colored low-rider Acura or Honda smashed windows but didn't hurt anybody. Saturday night on the Golden State near Burbank Airport, a sixteen year old was shot three times and drove himself to a hospital, the police say.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]-----------------------[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [url="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/040205_nw_freeway_shootings.html"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/040205_nw_freeway_shootings.html[/color][/size][/font][/url][font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] **[size=3][font=Times New Roman]Police Confirm Two More Freeway Shootings[/font][/size]** [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Police have confirmed two freeway shootings on Southern California roads this weekend and are investigating a third.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]In the first incident, a 16-year-old driver and his 17-year-old passenger were fired upon about 3:30 a-m Saturday on Interstate 5 in the Sun Valley area. The driver was injured but survived. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]In the second incident, police said a 19-year-old man was shot early Sunday while driving on Interstate 405. He also survived. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Police were investigating a third case on the 210 Freeway. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]In the past five weeks, two men have been killed in separate incidents in Los Angeles while traveling on the 110 Freeway. Two others have been killed in freeway shootings in neighboring counties. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The LAPD says the number of freeway shootings in Los Angeles is down by two incidents compared to the same time last year. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]---------------------[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] --- ### Okiereddust *2005-05-04 07:53* | [User Profile](/od/user/29) No biggy. [QUOTE=Glen][font=Times New Roman][size=3]The LAPD says the number of freeway shootings in Los Angeles is down by two incidents compared to the same time last year. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]---------------------[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font][/QUOTE]One of the reasons I don't visit LA much. :wacko: You remember that old joke cartoon about LA Freeways. A cop is writing a ticket for a motorist "You were shooting a 45 in a 22 zone" :biggrin: --- ### xmetalhead *2005-05-04 12:46* | [User Profile](/od/user/80) I guess that billboard ad was spot on....it is now Los Angeles, Mexico! --- ### CWRWinger *2005-05-04 14:45* | [User Profile](/od/user/1380) So this doesn't qualify as "terrorism" in the secret HSA manual?

To them, it's who's doing the shooting, not the act itself.

Illegal aliens are a protected species. --- ### Glen *2005-05-04 22:50* | [User Profile](/od/user/1279) In at least two shootings the assailants have been described as "Hispanic." According to the New York Times this year' victims have been Hispanic, **Negro** and Filipino. If true, then there is no connection to The Minuteman Project. -------------- [url="http://orangecounty.cox.net/cci/newslocal/local?_mode=view&view=LocalNewsArticleView&articleId=623008"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://orangecounty.cox.net/cci/newslocal/local?_mode=view&view=LocalNewsArticleView&articleId=623008[/color][/size][/font][/url] **[size=3][font=Times New Roman]32-Year-Old Motorist Shot On OC Freeway[/font][/size]** [font=Times New Roman][size=3]04-25-2005 7:35 AM[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3](Tustin, CA) -- A **32-year-old Orange County man** is the latest victim in a recent rash of freeway shootings in Southern California. Police say Sunday's victim **was shot in the neck while traveling northbound on the 55 Freeway in Tustin**. He was able to drive himself to a nearby hospital, where he is listed in stable condition. **He describes his attackers as** **male Hispanics with shaved heads**.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Copyright 2005 Metro Networks Communications Inc., A Westwood One Company[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]--------------------[/size][/font] [url="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/national/03shoot.html?ex=1272772800&en=8611c2f61d9ad2f4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#800080]http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/national/03shoot.html?ex=1272772800&en=8611c2f61d9ad2f4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss[/color][/size][/font][/url] **[size=3][font=Times New Roman]Clues Sought in Series of California Highway Shootings[/font][/size]** [font=Times New Roman][size=3]By [/size][/font][url="http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&v1=NICK%20MADIGAN&fdq=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=NICK%20MADIGAN&inline=nyt-per"][font=Times New Roman][size=3][color=#0000ff]NICK MADIGAN[/color][/size][/font][/url][font=Times New Roman][size=3] Published: May 3, 2005[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]“Here in Los Angeles, where most of the shootings have occurred, a police spokeswoman, Sgt. Catherine Plows, said on Monday that **a victim of a shooting early Sunday in the San Fernando Valley described his assailants as a group of four or five young Hispanic men with shaved heads.** The description led detectives from the police department's gang unit to look into the possibility that the shooting was part of an initiation ritual. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]“Sergeant Plows said that after being shot, **the 19-year-old victim** was able to get off the freeway and drive a few blocks before encountering paramedics who had responded to an unrelated accident. The man was treated at the scene and later taken to a hospital, where he was expected to survive.”[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]“Sergeant Plows, the Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman, said Monday that there had been 11 shootings this year on highways in her department's jurisdiction. Two people were killed and 13 were injured, she said.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]“The shootings appeared to be random, she said, when the demographics of the 15 victims were taken into account: **Ten were Hispanic, four African-American and one Filipino**, Sergeant Plows said.”[/size][/font] --- ?>