Thursday, January 1, 2009

Response to Gang Member, Kin Survive Shooting

Once again the Bloods and the Crips are back at it. Why would you shoot at somebody in the first place, and even think about shooting their parents? It's ridiculous anyways to get into a brawl that later can turn into something deadly, but bringing in the gang members' families isn't fair. With their child in a gang to begin with, I guess it comes along with it and you have to expect things like that to happen. I just don't think it's right. With the other shooting, I think it's really scary for gang members to be shooting where they can kill a family's children. It's one thing with adults, but with kids it's a totally new ball game. When I read these articles, it makes me appreciate where I live and what I have. I have a safe school to go to, a home in a nice neighborhood, and friends who aren't interested in drugs and shooting people. Another thing I took into account, was the location of the shootings. They weren't in the United States, they happened in the Philippines. This shows again that gangs are connected throughout the world and that there are so many lines and links to people that it's near impossible to stop.

#5 Gang Member, Kin Survive Shooting

In Cebu City located in the Philippines, one of the Bloods gang members survived along with his parents in a shooting with a Crips member. It took place on Sunday 2:41 in the morning. The member of the Crips gang was named Jordan Pumar and is part of the gang located in Compostela. There was another Crips member named Jay Rodrigues who quickly left the scene. The Bloods member was named Dong-dong Toledo and his parents are Neneta and Alfredo. The shooting caused the Christmas decorations of their home to be ruined. Before all of this happened there was a fight regarding Pumar's group along with the Bloods. Also in a village in Cebu, two men rode by a home on motorcycles and shot at the house and barely missed the couple who lived there, along with their three children. Police believe that the two shootings are related.