DEADLY ATTACK IN BROAD DAYLIGHT GUNSHOTS RIDDLE AUTO WITH BULLETS.Byline: Nicholas Grudin and Jason Kandel Staff Writers A wounded driver whose brother sat dying in the passenger seat of a bullet-riddled Lincoln flagged down police Saturday morning after a violent dispute in a Van Nuys neighborhood, police said. The blatant 10:45 a.m. shooting prompted the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . to issue a tactical alert for several hours, requiring all officers to remain on duty to help in the hunt for the gunman. ``We are using all the resources we can because whoever is responsible for this is a danger throughout the city,'' said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Jack Richter. No gunman had been arrested by Saturday evening, police said. The Van Nuys shooting, in which Rogger Balerezo, 21, of North Hollywood was killed and his brother, Juan Carlos Juan Car·los Born 1938. King of Spain (since 1975) who acceded to the throne on the death of Francisco Franco and helped restore parliamentary democracy. Noun 1. Balerezo, 24, was wounded was the second deadly shooting in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. in a 12-hour period. Friday night in Sylmar, drive-by shooters killed 21-year-old Raymond Carlos and wounded another man. Police said the Sylmar violence may have been gang-related, though family of the victim denied he had gang ties. Investigators said an argument with two other men may have sparked the Van Nuys shooting. The Van Nuys shooting triggered an intense manhunt man·hunt n. An organized, extensive search for a person, usually a fugitive criminal. manhunt Noun an organized search, usually by police, for a wanted man or fugitive Noun 1. after the surviving victim flagged down a patrol officer at Burbank Boulevard and Hazeltine Avenue. The two brothers were in a new cream-colored Lincoln Continental The Lincoln Continental, an automobile produced by the Lincoln division of Ford Motor Company, began for the 1939 model year. Over the next 63 years, despite these cars sharing under-pinnings with less expensive Ford automobiles, Continental was usually a distinguishly-styled, with paper plates. The car had been riddled with bullets and its rear windshield blown out, police said. ``This guy pulls up right next to the officer and says, 'Can you help my brother?''' said LAPD Capt. Robert McNamara For the figure skater, see . Robert Strange McNamara (born June 9, 1916) is an American business executive and a former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, during the Vietnam War. , Van Nuys Division's commander. The younger brother Wiki is aware of the following uses of "'Younger Brother":
Police began a search for evidence and witnesses, cordoning off more than three blocks of a neighborhood along Cumpston Street where officers believe the shooting took place. In the Sylmar shooting at 10:20 p.m. Friday, slaying victim Carlos and a friend had been drinking beer in the driveway of a home in the 15000 block of Paddock paddock a fenced field or enclosure. joining paddock used for mating. Street when a black Honda approached, police said. Several bullets were fired, wounding Carlos, who died several hours later at a hospital. The friend, identified as 29-year-old David Velis, was reported in stable condition at a local hospital. Police had no suspects Saturday and have tagged the case as gang-related. Carlos' family, however, said he was not a gang member. ``Ray was a quiet, down-to-earth guy - he just dressed like a gangster,'' said friend Art Del Rio Del Rio (rē`ō), city (1990 pop. 30,705), seat of Val Verde co., W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Ciudad Acuña, Mexico; founded 1868, inc. 1911. , 27, who grew up with Carlos. Teresa Klauza said Carlos was at the wrong place at the wrong time. She said she had been at the scene and tried to help Carlos as he lay dying. ``I knew just looking at him that he was going to die - it was like he was dreaming,'' she said. ``I got a chill through my spine.'' She said it was the third such shooting that has taken place in the neighborhood this year, a frequency she credits to too few street lights. ``There are no lights on this street,'' she said. ``It's pitch-black at night. I'm not going to let my nephew play out here anymore.'' Daily News staffer Allison Meadows contributed to this report. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: CARLOS |
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