ITS GOIN' DOWN 3-15-08
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i guess the whole "leave the drama elsewere" campaign didnt work.....woulda been good if it coulda actually worked out for you blo.....
here it is if anybodys intrested.....
Marysville police are investigating what triggered the shooting of three men at a large party Saturday night.
Two Gridley residents and a Yuba City man were wounded by gunfire at 11:25 p.m. at the Allyn Scott Youth & Community Center, 1830 B St. All three were hospitalized and are expected to survive, police said Sunday.
The attack capped a violent half-week in Yuba County, which began with the murder of three men Thursday in a Linda apartment and ended with a stabbing at a tavern in Wheatland. Five men injured in that incident, which resulted in the arrest of a Fresno man for investigation of attempted murder.
No suspects were identified in the assault at the Marysville youth center; police estimated up to 300 people were inside. Two victims were found in a car outside the building and a third inside the center.
As people scattered from the community center in confusion, officers approached the building carrying high-powered rifles. The attack drew Yuba City police, sheriff's deputies from Yuba and Sutter counties, and California Highway Patrol officers.
Scott Hatala, president of the youth center's board of directors, went to the scene after receiving a call from the alarm company. He said the building had been rented for a quinceañera, a teenage Latino girl's 15th-birthday celebration.
"They were only supposed to have 250 (inside) but it looked like a lot more," he said.
According to Hatala, the Allyn Scott center plays hosts to many events but had not been the scene of such violence before Saturday.
"We get fire alarms pulled, but nothing major like this," said Hatala. A further call on Sunday was not returned.
A Marysville officer, however, said the event was not a birthday party.
"Actually, it was not," said Sgt. John Osbourn. "It was a rap dance or concert."
An unidentified concertgoer said a dispute brewed during the event between members of the Norteño and Sureño street gangs.
Less than two hours after the Marysville shooting, at 1:06 a.m., a fight broke out at Bill's Place in Wheatland. Three men were stabbed with a folding knife, police Chief Dan Boon said in a statement.
Steve Ellison, 25, of Wheatland was taken to the trauma center at Sutter Roseville Medical Center. Two others, 24-year-old Josh Tarrant of Wheatland and 24-year-old Bryan Blake of Lakewood, were sent to Rideout Memorial Hospital.
Officers arrested Fred Grantham Jr., 25, of Fresno after the stabbings.
He was booked at the Yuba County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder and was being held Sunday night on $500,000 bail.
His brother, 23-year-old David Grantham of Fresno, was detained on a Fresno County warrant and released. Both siblings also were treated at Rideout hospital for injuries from the attack, Wheatland police said.
here it is if anybodys intrested.....
Marysville police are investigating what triggered the shooting of three men at a large party Saturday night.
Two Gridley residents and a Yuba City man were wounded by gunfire at 11:25 p.m. at the Allyn Scott Youth & Community Center, 1830 B St. All three were hospitalized and are expected to survive, police said Sunday.
The attack capped a violent half-week in Yuba County, which began with the murder of three men Thursday in a Linda apartment and ended with a stabbing at a tavern in Wheatland. Five men injured in that incident, which resulted in the arrest of a Fresno man for investigation of attempted murder.
No suspects were identified in the assault at the Marysville youth center; police estimated up to 300 people were inside. Two victims were found in a car outside the building and a third inside the center.
As people scattered from the community center in confusion, officers approached the building carrying high-powered rifles. The attack drew Yuba City police, sheriff's deputies from Yuba and Sutter counties, and California Highway Patrol officers.
Scott Hatala, president of the youth center's board of directors, went to the scene after receiving a call from the alarm company. He said the building had been rented for a quinceañera, a teenage Latino girl's 15th-birthday celebration.
"They were only supposed to have 250 (inside) but it looked like a lot more," he said.
According to Hatala, the Allyn Scott center plays hosts to many events but had not been the scene of such violence before Saturday.
"We get fire alarms pulled, but nothing major like this," said Hatala. A further call on Sunday was not returned.
A Marysville officer, however, said the event was not a birthday party.
"Actually, it was not," said Sgt. John Osbourn. "It was a rap dance or concert."
An unidentified concertgoer said a dispute brewed during the event between members of the Norteño and Sureño street gangs.
Less than two hours after the Marysville shooting, at 1:06 a.m., a fight broke out at Bill's Place in Wheatland. Three men were stabbed with a folding knife, police Chief Dan Boon said in a statement.
Steve Ellison, 25, of Wheatland was taken to the trauma center at Sutter Roseville Medical Center. Two others, 24-year-old Josh Tarrant of Wheatland and 24-year-old Bryan Blake of Lakewood, were sent to Rideout Memorial Hospital.
Officers arrested Fred Grantham Jr., 25, of Fresno after the stabbings.
He was booked at the Yuba County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder and was being held Sunday night on $500,000 bail.
His brother, 23-year-old David Grantham of Fresno, was detained on a Fresno County warrant and released. Both siblings also were treated at Rideout hospital for injuries from the attack, Wheatland police said.
a lil info 4 u intrested.
cant say to much cuz it is under investigation but some ppl did get shot, nobody died & it wasnt scraps. who ever was there knew that it was crackin. the party was all good no drama at all tell the shooting happend. it was nothing but good homeboyz geting along!! this was going to be the first of many events i wanted to put together but its all bad now! i wanted to do something positive 4 the homeboyz N show that we can UNITE but i was proved wrong
cant say to much cuz it is under investigation but some ppl did get shot, nobody died & it wasnt scraps. who ever was there knew that it was crackin. the party was all good no drama at all tell the shooting happend. it was nothing but good homeboyz geting along!! this was going to be the first of many events i wanted to put together but its all bad now! i wanted to do something positive 4 the homeboyz N show that we can UNITE but i was proved wrong
if any body took flix shoot'em this way or post them on here
[email protected] or www.myspace.com/takeflightclothing
[email protected] or www.myspace.com/takeflightclothing
"Come with respect & no drama, no gang colors."
That's how a slick, index-card-sized flier that promoted a "birthday bash" in Marysville reads. The bash, attended Saturday night by more than 300, ended with three men shot in the parking lot of the Allyn Scott Youth & Community Center.
Police recovered an Uzi from the parking lot and shell casings from at least two other weapons, but currently have no suspects or leads in the case.
Marysville police Chief Wally Fullerton said it has not yet been determined if the shooting victims were intended targets or bystanders.
Two of the men, however, are, "bona fide gang members," Fullerton said.
All three were taken to area hospitals. One has undergone surgery twice since the incident, but is expected to survive. The others — one who suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and the other with shots to the leg and abdomen — have been released.
Police are withholding the victims' names, pending an investigation.
One of the men is from Yuba City and the other two are from Gridley.
According to Fullerton, the possibility of a link between the Saturday shooting and two area drive-by shootings last week cannot be ruled out.
"This could very easily be gang retaliation," he said.
Sgt. John Osbourn said he had been called to the scene after two other Marysville police officers, who were patrolling near the youth center on B street at 11:25 p.m., heard shots fired.
"As soon as we got there, we realized the magnitude of the incident," Osbourn said. Party goers were running in and out of the building, to their cars, and away from the area on foot, he said. Some ran over nearby levees.
Witnesses he said, "were uncooperative."
Fear of retribution is part of the challenge in investigating gang-related crimes, said Mike Hudson, commander for California Department of Justice's area drug task force, Net-5.
The gang culture relies upon retaliation and the fear of it, he said. Without it, "they (gang members) lose their so-called respect, and their gang will cease to exist."
Forty law enforcement officers responded to Saturday's shooting, including officers from Yuba City, Wheatland, Sutter and Yuba Counties, and from California Highway Patrol, according to Fullerton.
Scott Hatala, president of the youth center's board of directors, said on Monday that he has contacted an attorney because of a $7,000 biohazard cleanup fee associated with Saturday's shooting.
One of the shooting victims, "ran back into the building and bled all over everything," he said.
Administrators at the Marysville Charter Academy of the Arts, which normally holds some performing arts classes at the youth center, had to find space on the Marysville High School campus Monday while a special cleaning company was called in to handle the mess.
Hatala said Saturday's party had not been specifically contracted as a quinceanera — 15th birthday party for Latinas — as he previously believed and reported.
A contract for lease of the 20,000 square-foot building was signed more than three months ago, and was written up as a birthday party.
The customary rental fee of $600 had been charged, Hatala said, as well as a $500 deposit that goes along with permission to serve alcohol.
He said he assumed the signee was a regular birthday party or quinceanera lessee.
"But it turned out to be a full-blown rap concert," he said.
Fifteen rap-related acts were advertised on the flier, and the event's host — Take Flight — charged $15 admission at the door.
Take Flight has a Web site that sells Norteno gang clothing.
Hudson, who once ran a gang task force team for DOJ in Sacramento, said the discrepancy between what was advertised — a call for no drama and no gang colors — and what occurred Saturday, is not unusual.
The hosts of gang-related parties often promote events in ways that attempt to discourage rival gang members from attending, he said.
They know that such events "are a good opportunity for rival gang members to create violence, especially as a retaliatory act," he said.
"The more significant and high profile the act, the more you elevate your status within the gang, as well as the status of your gang," Hudson said.
City officials have pointed fingers directly at Hatala and the rest of the youth center's board.
Marysville has provided Community Development Block Grant funds to the youth center for landscaping, parking lot paving and interior improvements, according to City Manager Steve Casey.
Casey said he has "very serious concerns" about a lack of security at Saturday night's event. He said the city could pass an ordinance requiring security if owners don't crack down on renters.
According to Hatala, the signee, whose name he would not divulge, provided some of the security guards required by the contract. He said the agreement calls for one guard for every 50 people in attendance.
But for the most part, he said, the party was contracted "under false pretenses."
Fullerton said that he, Hatala, and Marysville Mayor Bill Harris met about a month ago to discuss concerns about the youth center.
"There are drug sales going on in and around the building," he said, and the configuration of the building, "makes it difficult for police to monitor."
Fullerton said that Hatala and the board are responsible for making sure those who rent the facility are who they say they are.
"The board itself has an obligation to make sure this doesn't happen," he said.
"There was a lack of proper supervision," he said. "Due dilligence wasn't done and that's why we had this situation."
Hatala said there is no way to verify the motives of those who sign contracts to rent the space.
Kenneth Scott, founder of the youth center, said he has never liked the idea of allowing private parties at the building. He and his wife, Allyn, bought the former roller skating rink and began renovations in 1995.
The center is named for Scott's wife, who died of cancer in 2003.
It was intended as a place for organized, supervised youth activities, Scott said. But the board has had to rent it out for community functions and private parties, in order to keep it afloat.
"I don't like it, but they've got to do it to keep the center open," he said.
Scott, who is 76, retired from the board three months ago. He said the facility has seen its share of messy parties before, but no shootings.
"They bring in all kinds of booze and they kind of go wild and tear things up," he said, "but they haven't had any shootings before."
"We built it just for kids, and I hate to see it like this," he said. "It makes me sad."
Marysville Detective Sgt. Mark Cummings said he is still hoping to hear from witnesses to Saturday's shooting.
"I'm sure somebody saw or heard something," he said.
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That's how a slick, index-card-sized flier that promoted a "birthday bash" in Marysville reads. The bash, attended Saturday night by more than 300, ended with three men shot in the parking lot of the Allyn Scott Youth & Community Center.
Police recovered an Uzi from the parking lot and shell casings from at least two other weapons, but currently have no suspects or leads in the case.
Marysville police Chief Wally Fullerton said it has not yet been determined if the shooting victims were intended targets or bystanders.
Two of the men, however, are, "bona fide gang members," Fullerton said.
All three were taken to area hospitals. One has undergone surgery twice since the incident, but is expected to survive. The others — one who suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and the other with shots to the leg and abdomen — have been released.
Police are withholding the victims' names, pending an investigation.
One of the men is from Yuba City and the other two are from Gridley.
According to Fullerton, the possibility of a link between the Saturday shooting and two area drive-by shootings last week cannot be ruled out.
"This could very easily be gang retaliation," he said.
Sgt. John Osbourn said he had been called to the scene after two other Marysville police officers, who were patrolling near the youth center on B street at 11:25 p.m., heard shots fired.
"As soon as we got there, we realized the magnitude of the incident," Osbourn said. Party goers were running in and out of the building, to their cars, and away from the area on foot, he said. Some ran over nearby levees.
Witnesses he said, "were uncooperative."
Fear of retribution is part of the challenge in investigating gang-related crimes, said Mike Hudson, commander for California Department of Justice's area drug task force, Net-5.
The gang culture relies upon retaliation and the fear of it, he said. Without it, "they (gang members) lose their so-called respect, and their gang will cease to exist."
Forty law enforcement officers responded to Saturday's shooting, including officers from Yuba City, Wheatland, Sutter and Yuba Counties, and from California Highway Patrol, according to Fullerton.
Scott Hatala, president of the youth center's board of directors, said on Monday that he has contacted an attorney because of a $7,000 biohazard cleanup fee associated with Saturday's shooting.
One of the shooting victims, "ran back into the building and bled all over everything," he said.
Administrators at the Marysville Charter Academy of the Arts, which normally holds some performing arts classes at the youth center, had to find space on the Marysville High School campus Monday while a special cleaning company was called in to handle the mess.
Hatala said Saturday's party had not been specifically contracted as a quinceanera — 15th birthday party for Latinas — as he previously believed and reported.
A contract for lease of the 20,000 square-foot building was signed more than three months ago, and was written up as a birthday party.
The customary rental fee of $600 had been charged, Hatala said, as well as a $500 deposit that goes along with permission to serve alcohol.
He said he assumed the signee was a regular birthday party or quinceanera lessee.
"But it turned out to be a full-blown rap concert," he said.
Fifteen rap-related acts were advertised on the flier, and the event's host — Take Flight — charged $15 admission at the door.
Take Flight has a Web site that sells Norteno gang clothing.
Hudson, who once ran a gang task force team for DOJ in Sacramento, said the discrepancy between what was advertised — a call for no drama and no gang colors — and what occurred Saturday, is not unusual.
The hosts of gang-related parties often promote events in ways that attempt to discourage rival gang members from attending, he said.
They know that such events "are a good opportunity for rival gang members to create violence, especially as a retaliatory act," he said.
"The more significant and high profile the act, the more you elevate your status within the gang, as well as the status of your gang," Hudson said.
City officials have pointed fingers directly at Hatala and the rest of the youth center's board.
Marysville has provided Community Development Block Grant funds to the youth center for landscaping, parking lot paving and interior improvements, according to City Manager Steve Casey.
Casey said he has "very serious concerns" about a lack of security at Saturday night's event. He said the city could pass an ordinance requiring security if owners don't crack down on renters.
According to Hatala, the signee, whose name he would not divulge, provided some of the security guards required by the contract. He said the agreement calls for one guard for every 50 people in attendance.
But for the most part, he said, the party was contracted "under false pretenses."
Fullerton said that he, Hatala, and Marysville Mayor Bill Harris met about a month ago to discuss concerns about the youth center.
"There are drug sales going on in and around the building," he said, and the configuration of the building, "makes it difficult for police to monitor."
Fullerton said that Hatala and the board are responsible for making sure those who rent the facility are who they say they are.
"The board itself has an obligation to make sure this doesn't happen," he said.
"There was a lack of proper supervision," he said. "Due dilligence wasn't done and that's why we had this situation."
Hatala said there is no way to verify the motives of those who sign contracts to rent the space.
Kenneth Scott, founder of the youth center, said he has never liked the idea of allowing private parties at the building. He and his wife, Allyn, bought the former roller skating rink and began renovations in 1995.
The center is named for Scott's wife, who died of cancer in 2003.
It was intended as a place for organized, supervised youth activities, Scott said. But the board has had to rent it out for community functions and private parties, in order to keep it afloat.
"I don't like it, but they've got to do it to keep the center open," he said.
Scott, who is 76, retired from the board three months ago. He said the facility has seen its share of messy parties before, but no shootings.
"They bring in all kinds of booze and they kind of go wild and tear things up," he said, "but they haven't had any shootings before."
"We built it just for kids, and I hate to see it like this," he said. "It makes me sad."
Marysville Detective Sgt. Mark Cummings said he is still hoping to hear from witnesses to Saturday's shooting.
"I'm sure somebody saw or heard something," he said.
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the article has a point though. he signed a contract saying it was going to be a birthday party. not giving the impression it was going to be a rap concert.
both sides failed with that part. one giving the impression it was a birthday celebration, the other just assuming.
if its a rap concert you are throwing, you sign for a rap concert, not a birthday party.
~k.
both sides failed with that part. one giving the impression it was a birthday celebration, the other just assuming.
if its a rap concert you are throwing, you sign for a rap concert, not a birthday party.
~k.
LOL YEA N I'M SUPRISED HE DIDNT FALL OFF THE STAGE WITH HIS DRUNK ASS. . BUT BLO, I HELLA APPRECIATE WHAT U DID THO AS FAR AS THE WHOLE FUNCTION GOES, TRYING TO UNITE N STUFF IT WAS SUCCESSFUL THE MAJORITY TIME , EVERYBODY WAS HAVING FUN AND I WAS HAVING A GOOD ASS TIME BEFORE I LEFT, I MEAN IT WAS CRACKIN' BUT IM SORRY IT WENT BAD AND THE HOMEBOYS GOT SHOT UP AND EVERYTHING, SHIT HAPPENS AT THE WRONG PLACE AND THE WRONG TIME YOU ALREADY KNO BUT YOU SHOULDNT LET THAT SHIT DISCOURAGE YOU FROM TRYING TO UNITE THE HOMIES AGAIN 'CAUSE ITS REALLY A GOOD CAUSE THAT SHOULD NEVER GO UNOTICED.
Man I just wanna thank the homie blo for throwin one hell of an event. That was one of the tightest homie concerts I been to. It was sad that a group of prolly no more than 10 ppl fuked it up for EVERYONE that ever wants to do an event in the 530 or anywhere else for that matter. Thanx again blo. Shit was tight as fuk