TEEN FATALLY SHOT AT LOCAL POOL HALL GANG MEMBERS BELIEVED RESPONSIBLE.Byline: Daily News 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 16-year-old Lancaster Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. boy playing pool with family and friends was shot and killed after they were confronted by apparent gang members at a Palmdale Boulevard pool hall, deputies said Saturday Saturday: see week; Sabbath. . Three people were being questioned by sheriff's detectives after an SUV fitting the description of the gunman's getaway vehicle led deputies on a pursuit through downtown Palmdale following the shooting, detectives said. The victim was identified as Alfredo Briano of Lancaster, who died at a local hospital after the 11:30 p.m. Friday shooting at Vaughn's Billiards billiards, any one of a number of games played with a tapered, leather-tipped stick called a cue and various numbers of balls on a rectangular, cloth-covered slate table with raised and cushioned edges. in the 2000 block of East Palmdale Boulevard. Detective Joe Martinez said the teen and his companions had been playing pool and minding their own business when a group of two females and six males walked into the pool hall and challenged them about their gang association. The boy and the others denied being gang members, Martinez said. ``Apparently that didn't matter,'' Martinez said, because a fight broke out. One of the assailants pulled out a gun and shot the boy. After the shooting, witnesses told deputies that as many as five people got into a black SUV and sped off. Deputies spotted an SUV matching the description and chased it until it stopped near Avenue Q and 4th Street East. Three people inside were taken into custody. Their names were not immediately released. A gun believed to have been used in the slaying was found in weeds 1. weeds - Refers to development projects or algorithms that have no possible relevance or practical application. Comes from "off in the weeds". Used in phrases like "lexical analysis for microcode is serious weeds." 2. on a dirt road dirt road n (US) → camino sin firme dirt road n → chemin non macadamisé or non revêtu dirt road dirt n behind an apartment building, along the route that the pursuit took. |
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