Salinas takes on its gangs

Jose Cruz and Maria Alcantar's son, Azahel Cruz, 6, was killed in a drive-by shooting in March. The killing was the 31st in the last 15 months in Salinas, population 145,000, a city the size of Pasadena with eight times as many violent deaths, every one of them gang-related. <br> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-salinas-gangs-20100616,0,2808833.story"><u>See full story</u></a>
la-me-salinas01_l3xhojnc

( Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times )

Jose Cruz and Maria Alcantar's son, Azahel Cruz, 6, was killed in a drive-by shooting in March. The killing was the 31st in the last 15 months in Salinas, population 145,000, a city the size of Pasadena with eight times as many violent deaths, every one of them gang-related.
See full story

  • Email E-mail
  • add to Twitter Twitter
  • add to Facebook Facebook
  • add to StumbleUpon StumbleUpon