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Since late April, there have been at least a dozen reported shootings across the Yakima Valley. Here's a brief rundown:
* April 27: A father is repeatedly shot with a .22-caliber rifle at the Adams View housing complex outside Wapato. An 18-year-old man is arrested. The FBI is handling the case because both the victim and the suspect are members of federally recognized Indian tribes.
* May 7: An 18-year-old man is hit with a single blast of birdshot fired from a 12-gauge shotgun in a drive-by shooting on Union Street, near Chestnut Avenue. The injuries are not life-threatening.
* May 11: A drive-by shooting injures a 19-year-old Sunnyside man in the 1100 block of Tacoma Avenue in Sunnyside. Police say the shooting is gang-related.
* May 18: Leonardo A. Perez, 20, is shot once in the chest in what police call a gang shooting. He died the next day, becoming Yakima County's 10th homicide of the year. The shooting is believed to have taken place in the 1000 block of North Fourth Street.
* May 21: Police said a gang member was fired on while in the 1600 block of Thorp Road in Union Gap. No injuries are reported.
* May 25: An 18-year-old man is shot in the hip or thigh area after a confrontation with occupants of a pickup truck in the 1500 block of North Fourth Street. Police said the case may have involved road rage.
* May 27: Up to 25 shots are fired in an exchange of gunfire between two gangs in Grandview. One man, who is later arrested, is shot in the leg.
* May 29: Gunfire, possibly related to an arson that was reported a short time earlier, is heard coming from a car in the Lower Valley community of Outlook. No injuries are reported.
* June 1: Thirteen-year-old Yaneli Ramirez is struck in the abdomen when shots are fired into her home in the 1100 block of Roosevelt Avenue in Yakima. Seriously injured, she has since improved. Police call her family "squeaky" clean and are unsure why the shooting took place, but they blame gang members.
* June 4: Bullets fired from a car miss three young men in a yard in the 1200 block of South 18th Avenue. The shooting prompts a callout of the city's SWAT team when police think at least one of the suspects is in a house not far from Yakima Valley Community College. The house turns out to be empty.
* June 6: Sunnyside police arrest five people -- a man, woman and three teen boys -- for a drive-by shooting near the corner of Sixth Street and North Avenue. They were driving a 2008 Nissan Sentra, rented from Yakima. No injuries were reported.
* June 7: Three people were wounded in a shooting at a party in the Brownstown area early Sunday. Federal and tribal authorities release few details, except to say one victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
* June 7: A 23-year-old Lansing, Mich., woman visiting her grandmother in the 1300 block of Roosevelt Avenue is shot in the leg by what police describe as a stray shot from a gang fight.
-- Yakima Herald-Republic
Get ready Yakima, it's gonna be a violent summer. The gangs are armed and ready to shoot it out.
"I survived Yakima, the All-American city 1994"
There should be a law to hold parents accountable for their child's actions. Possibly, if parents knew that if their child did something illegal, say proactively participate in a drive-by shooting, I think there would be a bigger decline in crime.
But hey, that adage "Spare the rod, spoil the child," does not fit apply to today's kids but the headline "Gang Shooting Leaves Innocent Hurt" is better. For every innocent person these gang members injure, the community should spank the hell out of them since obviously their parents didn't. Worked back then. Case in point: President Obama, John McCain, and Joe Biden. Read their books, listen to their interviews. America's leaders all had their fair share of negative reinforcement. May not work for everybody but sure did work for most. Sure enough, I will be accused of my "racist" remark and "insensitive" comments. But what about you? Rather than blame me for a solution, you come up with one! The more time we take to counter every solution, the more these gang members will infest and terrorize our community.
To the person who wants to punish the parents. Most of these gangs are family "traditions" and the parents are part of the gang.
Ways to get rid of gangs. Take away the basics...
1. Don't allow them to buy food or other basics from any store or restaurant. A town in Arizona did this with great success.
2. Don't allow them on Welfare. They get money from tax payers buy drugs or guns and with the money and make a profit from it.
3. Don't rent houses or apartments to them.
They will more than likely move to California if everybody shuns them.
'thetruth'...I'd like to know what town in "Arizona" did that. I have never heard of that and neither has my husband....I wouldn't make a statement like that without making sure you had the 'city/town' correct, so I'd like to know the name of that city/town....
Report ViolationSorry, but the Latinos are not the only ones on welfare....there are the white people who are meth addicts, who have meth labs, rape little children (child molesters, predators, serial killers); the blacks, the asians, etc.......so dont' start with the Latino's being on welfare...they are NOT the only ones....
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