A man previously served with a gang injunction has been booked on three counts of attempted murder in connection with a shooting earlier this month that left two men injured and the dog they were walking dead.According to the Riverside Police Department, three men were walking the dog on Chicago Avenue near Seventh Street at 10 p.m. Jan. 13 when a vehicle approached them from behind and someone started shooting; two of the three were hit.Investigators identified Ignacio Chavez, 31, of Riverside, as the suspect.Chavez was arrested Jan. 26 on an unrelated warrant; he was later booked for attempted murder and other charges. Chavez was among 114 ESR gang members served with a permanent gang injunction in 2007.
''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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