`DAD, THEY SHOT ME' GANG GUNFIRE INTO HOUSE WOUNDS GIRL, 9.Byline: Cecilia Chan and Elizabeth Rodriguez Staff Writers PACOIMA - A 9-year-old girl watching television with her father was hit in the back by an errant er·rant adj. 1. Roving, especially in search of adventure: knights errant. 2. Straying from the proper course or standards: errant youngsters. 3. bullet when a gunfight erupted among rival gangs outside her home, police said Sunday. ``Dad, they shot me,'' said the girl who stood for a moment and then fell to the floor, said one of her brothers who was in the room with her. Police said the shooting broke out about 10:30 p.m. Saturday around Louvre Louvre (l  `vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent. and Dronfield streets, near Hubert Humphrey Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon Johnson. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. Park and Hillary
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It's a residential area that has been plagued off and on for years by gang violence, where most residents have bars over their windows. But residents said Sunday that nothing like this had ever happened before. The bullet smashed through the front wall of the house, hitting the little girl in the upper back. ``There's always shots down that street,'' said Lucy Vallin, who lives next door to the shooting. ``But there was never anything like this in the 18 years I've lived here.'' Police were asking the public for help in identifying the shooters. They would not release the identity of the girl, who was listed in stable condition at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Remnants of police tape clung to the home's iron fence, and a bullet hole remained visible under a family room's window Sunday. The girl was described as a popular fourth-grader who loves to dance and walks to nearby Broadous school on Fillmore Street The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . One of the brothers recalled hearing six shots. The parents have seven children and moved in just three weeks ago, said Isidoro Rosas, who had been renting a room at the victim's home for five days. Rosas said through a translator he and his family were asleep when the gunshots went off. They were awakened a·wak·en tr. & intr.v. a·wak·ened, a·wak·en·ing, a·wak·ens To awake; waken. See Usage Note at wake1. [Middle English awakenen, from Old English by the girl's mother, who ran into their room and told them her daughter had been shot. When the mother heard the gunfire, she told the children to hit the floor, but the girl had already been hit, said Rosas, who pulled the couch away from the living room wall, showing the bullet's path as it tore through the wall and couch. A Fire Department rescue helicopter landed in the neighborhood and flew the girl and her mother to Childrens Hospital. ``I came home at 12 o'clock and saw all the cops and detectives,'' neighbor Vallin said Sunday. The family had ``barely moved in.'' Maria Reyna, who has lived on Louvre Street since 1956, said she and her family were watching television when the shots went off. She had just called her daughter in from outside three minutes "Three Minutes" is the 46th episode of Lost. It is the twenty-second episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It first aired on May 17, 2006 on ABC. earlier, she said. ``There were a bunch of gunshots down the street,'' she said. She said she heard what sounded like two cars driving at normal speed, firing at each other. Sgt. Garth garth n. 1. A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters. 2. Archaic A yard, garden, or paddock. [Middle English, enclosed yard, from Old Norse gardhr; see Grugal of the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Foothill Division could not confirm that account. He said patrol officers and the gang enforcement unit are doing everything ``to ensure the community is safe.'' ``Illegal gang membership is a problem of society at large,'' Grugal said. ``It's a problem in the city, and one we take very seriously.'' Reyna said gang shootings are a once-a-week occurrence in her neighborhood. ``From Thursday to Sunday, there's always some kind of shooting that happens here,'' she said. Reyna blames nearby Hubert Humphrey Memorial Park with attracting a ``bad element.'' ``It starts there and ends here,'' she said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: A 9-year-old Pacoima girl is rushed to the hospital after being caught in gang cross fire. Chris Jensen/Special to the Daily News |
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