Last week Salinas witnessed 11 shootings, five victims and four homicides in five days. Police chief Louis Fetherolf went on record this morning as saying over 70 shots were fired in the city during this short period. Violence between Norteño and Sureño subgroups appears to have reignited, ironically (or not ironically) on the exact dates...
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...
