Posts Tagged ‘gang violence’

Our Kids in Long Beach are Being Murdered

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 0:00 No Comments

by Brenda Knepper
On a Halloween evening a little over a year ago, a close friend of my son’s was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting. Up until Richard’s death, I had been oblivious to how many of our young people in Long Beach were being murdered.

Did you know that the candlelight vigils honoring those [...]

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The House Next Door

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 0:00 No Comments

by Brenda Knepper
One of these days, I’m going to go over and introduce myself to my new neighbors.
A few months ago, the woman who lived next door to me was killed in a drive-by shooting. I had often seen her sitting out on her front porch smoking cigarettes for the year or so that she [...]

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Long Beach teen’s death

Saturday, November 11, 2006 19:41 No Comments

Sunday’s Letters to the Editor
Article Published: 11/18/2006 07:41:01 PM PST, www.presstelegram.com
While I am very sympathetic toward the young girls who were attacked in Bixby Knolls on Halloween, I am perplexed and outraged that the killing of one of Long Beach’s young men, also on Halloween, has not been mentioned in the Press-Telegram. Eighteen-year-old Richard Ramirez [...]

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