Emptied of its tenants so a development company could pursue plans to knock the place down and put up a high-rise, the building’s windows were smashed out of their frames and its doors pulled off their hinges. Thieves stripped the place of its fixtures.
The lives cut short inside the destroyer on Rampart were marked by poverty and fractured families — not unlike the lives of their alleged killers. One was both victim and perpetrator: An MS-13 member who took part in the killing of a teenager inside the destroyer was himself beaten to death days later in the same building.We’re offering L.A. Times subscribers first access to our best journalism. Thank you for your support.
Believing his cellmate also belonged to a gang, Madrid, 22, introduced himself as “Lil’ Serio” from MS-13’s Coronado clique, testified Det. Frank Flores of the LAPD. In fact, the man was a paid informant, Flores said, and the cell had been outfitted with secret recording devices. Believing Hernandez was a “rat,” Madrid told his cellmate that he and other Coronado members beat her to death with a bat in the Rampart destroyer and then rolled up her body in a piece of carpet, Flores said. Madrid claimed others in the gang removed her body from the building, according to the detective.
You get what you vote for.
Appellate Court has now issued an order for DOJ to answer my Jurisdictional Statement without restricting their brief as mine was restricted. The Court mentions “In consideration of plaintiff….” DGI Twisted! Nothing is in my consideration.
Good thing I don’t live there anymore.
Luckily the mayor of Los Angeles has now been appointed as Ambassador by the Biden administration, as he clearly knows how to handle things…! 😂👍
There's always a positive from every negative... the positive here is all you have to do to find MS-13 is look for broken down half destroyed vacant buildings in large democrat-controlled cities, and you will find the group sitting there smiling with their drugs guns & machetes
Ripe for recruitment.
It's doubly heartbreaking that the dozens/hundreds of tenants who were thrown out of these homes, suffered so needlessly to begin with. Of course it ended in another layer of tragedy. This whole dark process needs to stop.
So im supposed to believe that homeless camps and abandoned buildings are filled with undocumented gang members? Thats what this article says
Terrible of Biden
Frightening and disturbing to read. Great reporting here!
Thou art gone backwards i will stretch out my hand against thee and will appoint over them four kinds to devour and destroy.