Six-year-old Azahel Cruz was walking from his living room couch to his kitchen Tuesday evening when a stray bullet pierced his skull, fatally injuring him. Rival gang members exchanging shots outside Azahel’s home along Laurel Drive, fired a bullet that threaded between the cracks of two fences and through the Cruz family’s open back door....
Late in the newsroom, the phone rings. It’s a heavy call to take.
Kenny Martinez of King City invites The Californian to a peace rally, another effort by the community to quash gang violence in South County. What makes Kenny’s efforts particularly valiant is that he recently lost his brother.
22-year-old Ruben Armando Martinez was shot and...
I think we all have a nightmare scenario that we fear so much, we try not to think about it. My dad once described his as being slowly stabbed through the heart, a scene which I recently witnessed the aftermath.
Listening to the police scanner, a man was said to be “down.” More often then not,...
