of a speedboat. "How's this for some top quality stabbing?"
Fordyce gave a momentary glance of displeasure, shook his head, and turned back to the computer screen.
Arredondo admired the magazine photo closely. "Bet you've never had anything like that in your life, C.R."
"When I was working Hollywood division, I used to shove gash like that out of my radio car, brown boy."
"I'd like break her open like a shotgun."
About five Stepanovich had completed the affidavit for the search warrant. He rubbed his eyes for a moment. Because the others were either chatting or talking on the phone and he couldn't hear himself think, he picked up the handwritten draft, stepped into Harger's vacant office, and shut the door behind him. The private cubicle was decorated with framed photographs of various Los Angeles Police Department athletic and marksmanship teams, academy graduating classes, fishing trip group shots. On the corner of the desk was an eight by ten of Harger with his tanned wife and three towheaded boys posing alongside an oval swimming pool.
Stepanovich sat down at Harger's desk, made a few corrections to the affidavit, then went over it one last time. It read as follows:
I, Detective Jose Stepanovich, Ser. #613845, have been a Los Angeles police officer for nine years and am presently assigned to the CRASH Detective Bureau Gang Task Force to investigate gang related homicides and other violent crimes. Since entering on duty as a police officer, I have participated in the investigation of numerous gang homicides and gang assaults, and have qualified in Superior Court as an expert on the methods of operation of Los Angeles street gangs.
On August 211 received a radio call of "shots fired" and responded to Our Lady Queen of Angels Church. Upon arrival at the scene, I observed two gunshot victims: Primitivo Estrada, a wounded adult male, and Guadalupe Zuniga, a nine year old female pronounced dead at the scene.
Numerous witnesses (see attached police reports) stated that a male adult suspect armed with a shotgun had chased victim Estrada into the church and fired twice, striking Estrada and Zuniga. The suspect then shouted, "Eighteenth Street," and ran back out the door. One wedding guest (hereafter referred to as Source A), who wishes to remain anonymous because he fears for his life, told me that the suspect who fired the shotgun had green eyes.
In my expert opinion, shouting out the name of one's gang affiliation is the custom and practice of street gangs in the City of Los Angeles. Also, the Queen of Angels Church lies just inside the border of the area the Eighteenth Street gang claims as its gang turf. Therefore, I am led to believe that a member of the Eighteenth Street gang may be responsible for the shooting.
Continuing my investigation, I conducted a records check of the file kept on the Eighteenth Street gang and learned that only one member of the gang, a male adult fitting the general age and description of the male described by the witnesses as the man who ran into the church and fired the shotgun, has green eyes: Pepe Gomez, a.k.a. Greenie. His arrest record shows that he has been arrested twenty two times. Four of these arrests were for felony crimes involving the use of weapons, including one arrest for a gang related murder in which the alleged murder weapon was a shotgun. In this case the charges against Gomez were dropped for lack of evidence.
Today, I reinterviewed Source A and showed him a spread of five photographs (see attached photos) that included Gomez's booking photograph among those of persons of similar age and description. Source A picked the photograph of Gomez from the spread of photographs as being the shotgun-wielding assailant at the Queen of Angels Church.
A recent police report bearing Gomez's name reflects his address as 2965 Eighteenth Street, Apartment 203.
It is my expert opinion that a search of the above address may recover guns, ammunition, evidence of gang affiliation,
Fordyce gave a momentary glance of displeasure, shook his head, and turned back to the computer screen.
Arredondo admired the magazine photo closely. "Bet you've never had anything like that in your life, C.R."
"When I was working Hollywood division, I used to shove gash like that out of my radio car, brown boy."
"I'd like break her open like a shotgun."
About five Stepanovich had completed the affidavit for the search warrant. He rubbed his eyes for a moment. Because the others were either chatting or talking on the phone and he couldn't hear himself think, he picked up the handwritten draft, stepped into Harger's vacant office, and shut the door behind him. The private cubicle was decorated with framed photographs of various Los Angeles Police Department athletic and marksmanship teams, academy graduating classes, fishing trip group shots. On the corner of the desk was an eight by ten of Harger with his tanned wife and three towheaded boys posing alongside an oval swimming pool.
Stepanovich sat down at Harger's desk, made a few corrections to the affidavit, then went over it one last time. It read as follows:
I, Detective Jose Stepanovich, Ser. #613845, have been a Los Angeles police officer for nine years and am presently assigned to the CRASH Detective Bureau Gang Task Force to investigate gang related homicides and other violent crimes. Since entering on duty as a police officer, I have participated in the investigation of numerous gang homicides and gang assaults, and have qualified in Superior Court as an expert on the methods of operation of Los Angeles street gangs.
On August 211 received a radio call of "shots fired" and responded to Our Lady Queen of Angels Church. Upon arrival at the scene, I observed two gunshot victims: Primitivo Estrada, a wounded adult male, and Guadalupe Zuniga, a nine year old female pronounced dead at the scene.
Numerous witnesses (see attached police reports) stated that a male adult suspect armed with a shotgun had chased victim Estrada into the church and fired twice, striking Estrada and Zuniga. The suspect then shouted, "Eighteenth Street," and ran back out the door. One wedding guest (hereafter referred to as Source A), who wishes to remain anonymous because he fears for his life, told me that the suspect who fired the shotgun had green eyes.
In my expert opinion, shouting out the name of one's gang affiliation is the custom and practice of street gangs in the City of Los Angeles. Also, the Queen of Angels Church lies just inside the border of the area the Eighteenth Street gang claims as its gang turf. Therefore, I am led to believe that a member of the Eighteenth Street gang may be responsible for the shooting.
Continuing my investigation, I conducted a records check of the file kept on the Eighteenth Street gang and learned that only one member of the gang, a male adult fitting the general age and description of the male described by the witnesses as the man who ran into the church and fired the shotgun, has green eyes: Pepe Gomez, a.k.a. Greenie. His arrest record shows that he has been arrested twenty two times. Four of these arrests were for felony crimes involving the use of weapons, including one arrest for a gang related murder in which the alleged murder weapon was a shotgun. In this case the charges against Gomez were dropped for lack of evidence.
Today, I reinterviewed Source A and showed him a spread of five photographs (see attached photos) that included Gomez's booking photograph among those of persons of similar age and description. Source A picked the photograph of Gomez from the spread of photographs as being the shotgun-wielding assailant at the Queen of Angels Church.
A recent police report bearing Gomez's name reflects his address as 2965 Eighteenth Street, Apartment 203.
It is my expert opinion that a search of the above address may recover guns, ammunition, evidence of gang affiliation,
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