Show The Sa It Lake Tribune 88 Looms as Bloodiest Year as LA Gang Toll Hits 67 AVhU'l os I’li — Oan g v loUmre that has mm oimnum un weekend nights claimed the ii’ uf at h‘(tst tun tiit'ii and injured eight others mi hiding two youths atti' Red at a beach b gang members w ho stoh tin ir in a car police said I f v In addition detectives v ere investigating the possibilitv of gang involvement in the drive-bshooting death of a third man and the w otinding of another at a housing project in South Los Angeles ouih Saturday said detective Charles Merritt t least (17 people have died in gang violence so fai this year in Los Angeles County according to authorities If the killing continues at its current the bloodiestyear to date involving the county's gangs whose members number an estimated 70 000 The latest victim a suspected gang member died about 9 30 a m at Martin Luther King Jr Hospital after he was shot in the head while in a South Los Angeles residence with two other suspected gang members said Sgt Kick DiStefano J he v ictim was not identified Late Friday night Alvaro Velacqutv 13 of Los Angeles was fatally shot and two of his gang companions were wounded by shots fired from a pass- - rate 11)88 will be detecmg car in West Los Angeles said anti-gantive Dill Humphry "The motive is gang rivalry" he said At about the same time in the Eagle Rock area rivalry among five carloads of gang members erupted into fighting leaving three injured said Lt Dave Waterman One youth was shot in the leg another was beaten and a third was injured in the head by a hammer Waterman stud Police said gang members attacked tw o men at a beach stealing their car and earlier beat a group of blacks at the same beach r t r a o for over vie i t s years L'talj families have come to trust ZCStl for quality and above all talue specialize in offering the finest selection of personal and home fashions mailable in the Intermountam Ui st 119 Our mom Mrs Becky Tucker is u earing Argent i‘s three-piecsilk suit SI 40 m Better Dresses Salt lake Downtown and Cottonwood Dad's in the European elegance of Oleg Cassini S 255 from fashion Mens Suits I ram our Fashion Children 's Wear little brother wears the glen plaid suit by R) dal $52 Little sister’s dress is from G untie Sax' S48 at Salt Lake Downtown and Cottonuood e i the n 19 i s 8 p 8 r i n S Sat day March 27 1988 A5 |