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Cops Nab Gang Member in Bus Stop Shooting

Posted Feb 28, 08 8:48 PM CST in US 

(Newser) – Los Angeles police today arrested a gang member who they say shot five children and three adults at a city bus stop yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Police say the suspect, a member of the Crips, had been trying to make a name for himself as an enforcer in recent months. He apparently was trying to shoot one target, who kept dodging between pedestrians.

One of the eight people shot, a 12-year-old girl, remains hospitalized with a chest wound. The shooting took place just blocks from a school, and many of the witnesses were students there. "It's difficult but we can't be with our children all the time," said one parent. "But every day there is violence around here."

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Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, left, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, talk before a news conference outside the LAC USC Medical Center Children's hospital in East Los Angeles, Thursday,...   (Associated Press)
Jorita De Leon, left, with her niece Marlen Anenas, 3, waits along with other passengers for the bus Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, in South Los Angeles. A gunman wounded eight people at the bus stop on Wednesday....   (Associated Press)
Cpt. Rigo Romero, right, with the Los Angeles Police Department, holds a news conference Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, in South Los Angeles, to discuss teh bus stop shooting. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)   (Associated Press)
Parents and others stream through a gate as Los Angeles School Police officers admit them in groups of 25 at George Washington Carver Middle School in South Los Angeles after a shooting a block away caused...   (Associated Press)
Jackie Dunbar sits at a bus stop, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, in South Los Angeles, near what is claimed by passengers to be a bullet hole, left, in the middle of the letter B. A gunman wounded eight people...   (Associated Press)
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