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Drive by Shooting Kills Two – Two Seriously Injured
COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 21, NO. 2
Outbreak of shootings believed to be gang related
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n Friday, Jan. 6 at about 11:53 p.m., Pasadena Police Officers responded to a call of a shooting in the 100 Block of W. Claremont St. Officers located the scene of the shooting and an African American male victim age 23 was found lifeless in the 70 block Pepper St. Within minutes Pasadena Fire Paramedics at Station 36 (1140 N. Fair Oaks Ave.) reported that they were treating a second gunshot victim described as an African American female, 38. She was taken to a local area hospital in critical condition. Contemporaneous to the shooting, a single vehicle collision occurred at the intersection of California Blvd., and St. John Ave. Officers responded and discovered two additional gunshot victims at the scene of the collision. The third gunshot victim, an African American male, 23 was lifeless in the car suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The fourth gunshot victim, an SEE PAGE 10
Makeshift memorial complete with a baseball cap, kerchief, candles and Hennesy bottles mark the spot on Claremont Street near Fair Oaks where two men lost their lives in a drive-by shooting Saturday morning. - Photo by Terry Miller
Pasadena City Council Debates Police Staffing in Wake of Recent Shootings BY GUS HERRERA The Pasadena City Council’s first meeting of the year began with a special briefing from Police Chief Phillip Sanchez regarding the recent shootings on Jan. 6 and 7 that left two dead and three more
injured. In the following days, Pasadena PD ramped up its patrols, subsequently arresting “10 armed suspects, believed to be connected to local street gangs,” according to a statement released
on Jan. 9. The arrests were made over the span of three days, without incident, and, in each case, police seized multiple loaded firearms. SEE PAGE 10
Judge Orders PUSD to Stop Withholding Documents On Madison Principal Juan Ruelas
The Pasadena Unified School District’s defense of embattled Madison Elementary School principal Juan Ruelas took a major hit yesterday when a Superior Court Judge ordered it to produce 24 complete documents concerning Ruelas,
which PUSD had been trying to keep portions of secret. Yesterday was the trial of a Public Records Act lawsuit brought by Pasadena resident Pablo Alvarado, the Executive Director of the National Day Laborers Organizing Network
(“NDLON”), and the Citizens Committee for Equality and Justice at Madison (“CCEJAM”), the organization of teachers, parents and community members who has been fighting for 1 ½ years SEE PAGE 11