Man was wounded in the stomach Wednesday evening in a suspected gang-related shooting, police said.The victim, a 23-year-old Pittsburg man, was getting gas at a station in the 1900 block of Auto Center Drive when two vehicles occupied by a group of four to five men pulled up and started an argument with him.Antioch police Sgt. Diane Aguinaga said the victim, an associate of the Norte street gang, ignored the group taunting him, which she said consisted of associates of the rival Surenos street gang.At some point during the exchange, one of the Surenos opened fire, striking the victim in the abdomen, and the group drove away.The victim was taken to a local hospital and is expected to survive, Aguinaga said.Police did not have detailed descriptions of the group but said the vehicles were described as a white 1990s-model Toyota pickup truck and a Lincoln Town Car with 20-inch rims.
''They may have been into drugs but they didn't do anything to harm anybody,'' said their aunt, Cheryl Watkins. ``It was cold-blooded murder to lay them out like that.''Miami-Dade County's 80th and 81st homicides of 2008: Rashawn and Deon Beneby, brothers and suspects in a string of violent robberies, shot dead Thursday afternoon next to the Liberty City middle school they once attended. ''It's cold-blooded, outright killing out there -- and we're not even in the summer yet,'' said the Rev. Richard Dunn, a community activist who lives three blocks away. Witnesses said a group of men were gathered outside an apartment at the Annie Coleman Gardens housing project when the shooting started.Someone mowed down the brothers, some 15 yards apart, on a grassy strip next to the chain-link fence that separates the community from the baseball field at Charles R. Drew Middle School, 1801 NW 60th St. Rashawn was executed -- shot in the head an...
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