Two MORE 1st District (Zendejas) Shootings, Bullets Fly At Two Sites In Willmore City Within Half An Hour, No Persons Hit

+ Two MORE 1st District (Zendejas) Shootings, Bullets Fly At Two Sites In Willmore City Within Half An Hour, No Persons Hit

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7th and 8th CD1 shooting crime scenes -- including two homicides -- within past 30 days

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(Oct. 11, 2020, 10:55 a.m.) -- LB's 1st Council district, represented since December by Mary Zendejas had two shooting crime scenes within half an hour on Saturday night (Oct. 10.) Both were in the Willmore City historic neighborhood and bullet casings were found but no persons were hit. Last night's gunfire comes one day after two people were shot/wounnded in 1st district's Seaside Park/Washington Middle School neighborhood.

LBPD Public Information Officer Allison Gallagher tells LBREPORT.com:

At about 8:15 p.m., LBPD received a report of shots fired in the 900 block of Park Circle and officers found evidence conisstent with a shooting, including bullet casings, but couldn't find a victim or suspect.
About a half hour later at 8:45 p.m. and a few blocks away, officers responded to the 1000 block of Cedar Ave. regarding shots fired, and again found evidence consistent with a shooting, including bullet casings, but again couldn't identify a victim or suspect.

LBPD says in both cases the motive(s) are unknown.

They're the 7th and 8th shooting crime scenes -- including two homicides -- in the mainly working class 1st Council district.

On Sept. 8, the City Council voted 9-0 to adopt a FY21 budget that defunds 48 sworn officers (on top of 180+ officers not restored after a 2009-2015 defunding). Among those not restored is LBPD's former field anti-gang unit (20 officers + 2 sergeants.)

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The 1st Council district's incumbent, Mary Zendejas, was elected in a November 2019 no-runoff special election with the help of $30,000 (three $10,000 contributions each) by the LB Police Officers Association PAC, LB Mayor Robert Garcia (using his 2026 "Lt. Governor" committee) and immediate past 1st dist. Councilwoman (now state Senator) Lena Gonzalez (using leftover funds from her 2019 state Senate campaign.)

The LBPOA/Garcia/Gonzalez contributions, which exceeded amounts allowed to candidate-run campaign committees, bypassed that restriction by giving the sums to an "independent expenditure committee" run by the LB Firefighters Ass'n PAC (not subject to candidate committee contribution limits) which then used the sums to independently support electing Zendejas. Incumbent Zendejas will next face voters (if she chooses to seek re-election) in 2022..
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Garcia, Gonzalez and the LBPOA PAC have endorsed Council candidate Cindy Allen in the adjacent 2nd district. The 2nd district recently had its second murder of October. On Oct. 1, a man was shot to death in the Rose Park area (which police are investigating as possible gang related.) .On Oct. 6, a transient was stabbed to death int he area of Ocean Blvd. and The Promenade..

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