TEEN ESCAPES SERIOUS INJURY IN GANG-RELATED SHOOTING VICTIM DUCKS BEHIND MINIVAN AS DRIVEBY ASSAILANTS FIRE.Byline: Greg GREG Great Egg Harbor National Scenic and Recreational River (US National Park Service) Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - A Palmdale teenager Teenager See also Adolescence. Ah, Wilderness! high-school senior has problems with girls and his father. [Am. Drama: O’Neill Ah, Wilderness! in Sobel, 15] Aldrich, Henry teenaged film character of the 1940s. [Am. was struck by shattered shat·ter v. shat·tered, shat·ter·ing, shat·ters v.tr. 1. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow. 2. a. glass in an apparently gang-related driveby shooting Tuesday Tuesday: see week. afternoon in a normally quiet neighborhood, officials said. The 18-year-old, whose name was not released, suffered a small grazing grazing, n See irregular feeding. grazing 1. actions of herbivorous animals eating growing pasture or cereal crop. 2. area of pasture or cereal crop to be used as standing feed. See also pasture. wound to his shoulder blade shoulder blade n. See scapula. from the shattered windows of a minivan he hid behind as the gunman's car came toward him, deputies said. ``I just saw the guy walking down the street, and then he ducked down behind the van, I guess for cover because he saw what was going to happen,'' said Brian Vanegas, who lives in the house the van was parked in front of. ``We've never had anything like this here before that I know of.'' The 18-year-old had been walking down Kimberly Lane with his older brother when two men in a white compact, possibly a Toyota, came toward them at high speed. The brother ran toward their home on a nearby street while the 18-year-old ducked behind the minivan parked at the curb. The car stopped next to the van, and one of the men fired a single shot, which passed through the driver's side window and struck the window of the sliding door on the other side. The car pulled in front of the van then sped away, officials said. The victim refused treatment for his wound, officials said. Deputies searched the area but were unable to locate the car or its occupants. Deputies say they are unsure why the men in the car fired at the victim but believe that everyone involved was a gang member. The men in the car were described only as Latino. Anyone with any information in the shooting is asked to call the Palmdale sheriff's station at (661) 267-4300. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Sheriff's Sgt. Vince Burton checks out a minivan whose windows were blown out during a driveby shooting Tuesday in a normally quiet neighborhood on Kimberly Lane in Palmdale. A teenager suffered a small grazing wound to his shoulder blade during the afternoon attack. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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