Man shot in chest while confronting taggers in Hollywood
The victim, the owner of an auto body shop, was shot Wednesday after telling two gang-affiliated young men to stop painting the side of his building. He is in stable condition.
By Francisco Vara-Orta and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
12:13 PM PDT, June 26, 2008
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An auto body shop owner shot in the chest Wednesday during a confrontation with gang-affiliated taggers who had scrawled graffiti on his Hollywood business was in stable condition today, according to authorities and the man's brother.
The midday incident took place in the 5000 block of Hollywood Boulevard shortly after 1 p.m. when workers at the business spotted taggers painting a side wall with 6-foot high black letters and told the owner.
* Scene where an auto body shop owner ... was shot in the chest.
Scene where an auto body shop owner ... was shot in the chest.
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Google Map: Man shot confronting taggers
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The man and his employees were writing down license plate information when the alleged taggers got out of their car, said LAPD Sgt. Alfredo Flores. The owner told the two youths --described as white males, each not much taller than 5 feet -- not to tag his property, Flores said. One of the youths pulled out a handgun, shot the man in the chest and then got back in the car and drove away.
Authorities said the youths are believed to have ties to a local gang, known as Armenian Power. Surveillance video from the shop is being used by detectives who said they think they have identified the youths and are searching for them now, said LAPD Cmdr. Pat Gannon.
Gannon said other youths had been questioned but no arrests had been made in the case. A vehicle believed to have been used by the suspects was found Wednesday in the San Fernando Valley and seized by officers. The auto body shop had previously been tagged with graffiti and the owner had installed video cameras connected to the store's computers to monitor activity.
At the shop this morning, the wounded man's brother, who would not give his name, said only that his brother was doing fine.
The taggers' bold black letters were still fresh on the building's beige wall. At least one coat of paint already covered a previous paint job. The wall faces the parking lot for a costume rental shop and a Head Start program.
Liousin Demirtchian, 46, was home listening to music when the shooting took place.
"It's scary for my daughter and my son," Demirtchian said while on a morning walk with her daughter Marine 12. "I don't want my daughter getting in the path of that."
She said in their eight years in the neighborhood their building had been tagged only once, although graffiti is common in the area.
Demirtchian said they did not hear the shooting but later walked outside to find street near their apartment building shut down by police. Neighbors told them what had happened.
"I wouldn't have done anything at all," Marine said. "I would just let them go ahead and tag because its not worth my life."
Shootings by taggers have become more common, Flores said.
Look at what this little Xuligan * Txerk. fudge little buster ass youngsters discrasing the whole gang. Derants Glxin galik ka * chutera hay martu businessi vra tagg en anum vorov dzever chunen vor etan otari texi vra anen and then they get up and shoot him vay drants xuligan lava *.
Anette Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
Damn thats sad.... I agree with the above post. Why don't they go tag some ghetto mexican place????
DOC Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
Mexicans kill Mexicans.
Blacks kill blacks.
These kids think they're both.
Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
People Kill People! Armenians Kill Armenians there is just less of a population,Being in a gang has got nothing to do with race their are plenty of gangs in every race, most come from poverty or single parent homes or they deal or do drugs.
DOC Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
No shit people kill people. That's not my point.
We are a small minority, much MUCH smaller than blacks and Mexicans. We march on April 24th, but once that day is over we will kill each other.
Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
Anette wrote:
Damn thats sad.... I agree with the above post. Why don't they go tag some ghetto mexican place????
Hollywood is ghetto enough
Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
DOC wrote:
No shit people kill people. That's not my point.
We are a small minority, much MUCH smaller than blacks and Mexicans. We march on April 24th, but once that day is over we will kill each other.
They are not trying to act mexican or black to me they are just trying to act Gangsta Most of the white kids that act gangsta that I know admire Insane Clown Posse
DOC Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
Anonymous wrote:
DOC wrote:
No shit people kill people. That's not my point.
We are a small minority, much MUCH smaller than blacks and Mexicans. We march on April 24th, but once that day is over we will kill each other.
They are not trying to act mexican or black to me they are just trying to act Gangsta Most of the white kids that act gangsta that I know admire Insane Clown Posse
What the hell are you talking about? No one admires ICP. That's the shittiest excuse I ever heard and that group sucks.
Every Armenian gang banger admires blacks and Mexicans.
Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
Dont blame the Blacks and The Mexicans
Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
Yeah there is a mostly white gang all accross the states that call themselves Juggalos after ICP and they have been involved in many murders and other crimes accross the country
Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
The Juggalos are mostley identified by their hatchett man Tattoos
DOC Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
These guests are dumb.
Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
Ok, First of all this kids’ tagg like queers. Tagging is gay but if you do it at least do it correct.
They wrote V.AP X3 meaning Varrio Armenian Power 13. Well last I checked Varrio was a Spanish word not Armenian or English. Yes they do have the 13 because they are a Taxed South Side 13 gang but when they put varrio it shows how queer this kids were. Hey faggots next time you want to right Barrio or Varrio save it and hit up Neighborhood or N-Hood or N-H-> at least so Mexicans wont laugh and say why is and Armenian acting like there Spanish. Yea that was my 10 cents on this oh and this kids are * txerk for shooting an Armenian man and putting gang graffiti on the mans business which he works and runs to feed his family unlike you punk mother fudge without no jobs or worries. Jaj tam dzer aylandak bernerin. You punks are going to get caught up if not by the AP OG’s maybe by some Doxov txerk who are going to bust one in your ass or even a lobi or negger or red neck or chino or whatever you fools should get blasted and probably will. Oh and look at the old Armenian lady behind the beaner woman in the pic they don’t even know there being filmed
Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
Kiso Supreme Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 312
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
lame -_-
DOC Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
Anonymous wrote:
DOC wrote:
These guests are dumb.
You dont know anyone on here and noone knows you so why are you talking sht
Hush.
ChiLlaXiN Member
Joined: 12 Jun 2008 Posts: 211
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
Who the fudge is this dipshit posting those gay videos?...ICP?...WTF?....I've never even heard of that shit 'til now.
Whites+Gangs= ERROR...DOES NOT COMPUTE!!!>>>ERRORRRR!!!!....404!!!....!@#*&^@#%^
Oh yeah...fudge all these little gandon * for claiming AP. There is no AP. Also, fudge this little b* for trying to gangbang, shooting up innocent people, etc. fudge any Armenian that acts like a fudge nigger, beaner, whiter, whatever! Khaytarak lakotneren. Hayek, hay menatsek ay chatlaxner. Voch te dzez mexici kam sevi tegh denek.
Fazeres ketsets iskakanits.
_________________ "Kef anoghi kef e yerpek chi paksi."
DOC Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
It's the same faggoty ass guest posting all this crap trying to promote this garbage group. ICP sucks ass. Gayest shit since Ru Paul.
BoNeS Guest
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
I don't see the point in gang banging, 2 gangs meet up, claim their sets, and kill each other, no point in it. A few bangers i've known told me they regret ever joining a gang, and they gotta put their life at risk and get jumped or do some other dumb shiit just to be out of the gang
Im not too familiar on why AP was formed but from what I heard it was formed to protect younger Armenians from other gangs? Well gang bangers treat everybody else like they are..gang bangers. So if AP protects Armenians from other gangs then those other gangs are gonna start treating AP like a GANG. You mess with anything they do and they are gonna think your a banger...and you know the routine phrases, "Where you from?" or "Whatchu Bang". So todays younger Armenians think AP is a gang and they can bang it thinkin' the OG's will bail them out if they get in some real shiit. . And I understand a lot of gang violence is racially linked, but the Armenian on Armenian violence needs to stop.
eyOjuiCy Supreme Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 1633
Posted Thu Jun 26, 2008
i would like to say, one day when im hamberutyan bajaka ltsvi, es sax lakot lookutnerin mek mek yes em 'grselu'. watch man.
dis is the number one thing dat pisses me off.
verengek dzer texnerna & beat a woman or sumthing, stop doing this shit morons.
_________________ & you'll nevuuh catch me slippin, cuz im too fly to fall(:
