Tuesday, November 6, 2007

LA Has The Best Crime Stories

Now this would have been fun to watch. Just drop the tailgate and grab a soda...
Oh and the fight happened at Big Lots - can't make this stuff up.

Woman dies as car rams crowd

The incident caps a brawl in South L.A. involving about 30 women in a parking lot. At least one other woman is injured.

By Richard Winton and Jean-Paul Renaud, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers November 6, 2007
A brawl among about 30 women near a busy South Los Angeles intersection turned deadly Monday when a woman plowed her car into the crowd, killing a woman who was eight months pregnant, authorities said.Los Angeles police said that at least two other women were hurt, one critically, when they were rammed by a gold convertible near the corner of West Slauson and South Western avenues. The victim in critical condition is expected to lose her leg, authorities said. Police officials said the motorist sped off after driving into the crowd, but that she later showed up with her mother at the 77th Street station and was being questioned there by homicide detectives Monday night.The brawl was part of a planned showdown between two groups of women in their early 20s, according to LAPD Cmdr. Pat Gannon. The cause of the dispute was unclear, he said.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-runover6nov06,0,3240059.story?track=mostviewed-sectionfront

1 comment:

TRN said...

heard about this on the radio today...