Cheryl green trial

The last defendant in the killing of Cheryl Green , the year-old black girl gunned down by Latino street gang members, was sentenced today to years to life in prison. Ernesto Alcarez, now 25, had been convicted last month. He was the lookout that after on December 15, when th Street gang member Jonathan Fajardo, pictured here , went looking for blacks to shoot and found Green and some friends talking on a street nearby.

The case was one of the most remarkable of my career. The killing of Green, followed by the slaying of Christopher Ash, a th Street associated whom the gang believed to be an informant, left a trail of pointless destruction. Two families had loved ones killed. Five families have loved ones doing life in prison. Amazingly, Alcarez and Fajardo barely knew each other when Fajardo set out that day, with Alcarez has his somewhat reluctant lookout.

The way a gang member explained it to me, Alcarez was a kind of wannabe member of th Street whose commitment the gang wanted to test by sending him along with Fajardo, a dedicated th Streeter and serious methamphetamine user. Strangely, Fajardo was himself half black , though he identified as a Latino. I wrote a story of how the Harbor Gateway area Cheryl Green had grown up in had been changed by lenient zoning laws from a single-family neighborhood into one crammed with apartment buildings that led to the problems of race it experienced beginning in the late s.

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In order to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond "fair use", you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Limits to Growth An iconoclastic view of immigration and culture. Comments Posts. Fajardo was convicted Sept. Jurors also convicted Fajardo of the attempted murders of seven people who were standing with the girl on Harvard Boulevard near th Street when she was shot in broad daylight in the Harbor Gateway area.

Ash — who was found lying in the middle of a Carson street — had not witnessed the girl being murdered, but gang members believed he might be talking with police about the shooting, according to Ford.