Shootings in San Bernardino Tonight, not too far from my home SAN BERNARDINO >> Four people were wounded in a gun battle that erupted Friday night at an apartment complex in a neighborhood where gang violence raged in 2005 and culminated in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old girl. A fifth person was wounded in a shooting earlier. Gunfire broke out around 7 p.m. at an apartment complex in the 2900 block of North Mountain Avenue. At least two of the victims, a man and a woman, were critically wounded, and a paramedic was administering CPR on one of them as they were taken to a hospital, said Lt. Rich Lawhead of the San Bernardino Police Department. “It was a gun battle between two factions,” Lawhead said Friday night, adding that one of the victims may have been one of the shooters. One handgun was found tossed atop the roof of a carport at the apartment complex, Lawhead said. The extent of injuries to the other victims was unclear. “The scene out there is still really active. We have the entire street closed off,” Lawhead said. The neighborhood is mostly apartment buildings, and many residents were outside watching the scene unfold after the gunfire. Sheriff’s deputies were on scene to assist with crowd control. One neighbor reported hearing 9 to 11 gunshots. Another resident said she heard 15 rounds that “sounded like continuous consecutive rounds.” Law enforcement officers were seen checking apartments for any other victims. A manager of an adjacent apartment complex said she had just left at 5:30 p.m. when a panicked tenant called. It was the tenant’s first day. “They’ve been getting rougher,” said manager Robin Wasson, speaking of the complex south of hers. A woman who did not give her name said her brother called her, saying he was shot in the thigh. He was a non-resident “hanging here too much with some gangbangers,” she said, as she rushed to get to the hospital. The gun violence was reminiscent of the 2005 shooting that killed 11-year-old Mynisha Crenshaw just south of where Friday’s shooting was reported. At the time, a documented gang member had been shot outside a Mountain Avenue apartment complex, which triggered a retaliation shooting at the neighboring Cedarwood Apartments in November 2005. Mynisha was fatally struck by stray bullets during dinner time in her apartment with her family. On Friday night, police units from San Bernardino, the Sheriff’s Department and paramedics from San Bernardino and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians responded to the scene. Loma Avenue, one block east of Lynwood, was blocked by authorities. Earlier Friday, officers received a call of a fight near 15th Street and Bell Court that was possibly gun-related. The suspects fled, and officers searched the area. About that time, police received a call about a man who checked into a nearby hospital with a gunshot wound in the foot. The wounded person told police he was shot near 15th and Bell. Officers set up a perimeter at that location and searched for a suspect
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 06:29:53 +0000
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