PEEP THIS SHIT THAT I FOUND ABOUT SOME SHIT THAT WENT DOWN IN HALF MOON BAY...I WAS JUST OUT THERE A COUPLE WEEKS BACK...YOU SEE SCRAP SHIT TAGGED UP AND I EVEN SEEN THEM HARDCORE PAISAS WALKIN ON THE BEACH ONE TIME LAST YEAR...BUT IT SEEMS THAT THESE TRAMPS BIT OFF MORE THEN THEY COULD CHEW THIS TIME FUCKIN WITH SOME HOMEBOYZ...AND TRIP OFF WHERE IT EVEN SAYS THE SCRAPS STRAIGHT IDENTIFIED AND SNITCHED ON EM......LOL!!
Pillar Point turns deadly
By Jim Welte--Half Moon Bay Review
At around 1 a.m. Saturday morning, Danville resident Joanna Flowers and her husband sat inside their RV at the Pillar Point RV Park watching the horror flick "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
Flowers said that while the on-screen shrieking largely drowned out the screams accompanying the horrific scene going on outside their RV near Surfer's Beach - a gang fight that ended in the first murder within Half Moon Bay in seven years - the violence scared at least one of their neighbors in the park so much that she drove home to Modesto in the middle of the night.
"It just sounded like a bunch of really intense partying to us, with lots of screaming," Flowers said. "It didn't occur to us that it was violent."
Violent it most certainly was, according to accounts from witnesses, those within earshot and police.
Police have arrested Porfirio Grijalva and Chhai Va, both 20 years old and from Antioch, for the killing of Carlos Patino, an 18-year-old Half Moon Bay native and resident of the Main Street Park housing complex.
Grijalva remains in custody at the San Mateo County jail without bail, facing felony charges of homicide, attempted murder against another man who suffered a gunshot wound, and a "gang enhancement" charge, meaning that Grijalva was known to police as a participant in gang activity. Va faces an accessory charge as the alleged driver of the getaway car. He posted $10,000 bail on Sunday.
Grijalva and a group of friends, all from the East Bay and reportedly affiliated with the Norteno gang, were reportedly on the receiving end of a rock- and bottle-throwing assault from local Sureno gang members, until Grijalva retreated to his van in the parking lot, got a gun and started shooting.
"A rock fight escalated into a gunfight," said Half Moon Bay Police Cmdr. Lon Waxstein. "The evidence suggests that he was chased by a group of locals to his van, and then he pulled out the gun."
Grijalva reportedly fired seven shots in the direction of his attackers, hitting Patino and an unidentified man. Patino was rushed to Seton Medical Center Coastside, where he died an hour later. The second victim was treated at San Mateo Medical Center for a gunshot wound and later released.
Police said that Va drove Grijalva and four others away from the scene in a white 1988 Dodge minivan, heading north on Highway 1.
Within 15 minutes of getting reports of the gunfire at around 1:40 a.m., Half Moon Bay police learned that Pacifica police had pulled over the assailants' minivan near the Shell gas station on Highway 1 at Fassler Avenue in Pacifica after a short chase that started just north of Devil's Slide.
All six subjects inside - three women and three men in their late teens and early 20s - were identified by witnesses and local Surenos involved in the assault. The subjects were detained, and Grijalva confessed to pulling the trigger, according to Waxstein.
Police woke up Flowers and dozens of other people staying in the RV park at around 4 a.m. Many of them said they heard screaming that intensified quickly and turned violent. The entire incident lasted less than an hour, witnesses said.
Police interviewed witnesses early Saturday morning while police and Sheriff's detectives examined the parking lot crime scene, which included scattered broken glass and a pool of blood where Patino was shot. Later Saturday morning, Sheriff's search teams scoured the tall grass just east of Highway 1 between Surfer's Beach and the sign indicating the southern city limits of Moss Beach, where the assailants reportedly disposed of the gun while fleeing the scene.
Sheriff's crews found the gun in the tall grass near the sign Sunday just two blocks south of the Sheriff's Coastside substation.
Patino's family could not be reached for comment. It is widely known that while he was listed as a Redwood City resident, he grew up in Half Moon Bay, attended Pilarcitos High School and was frequently contacted by police in recent years on the Coastside.
"He claimed the Coastside, not Redwood City," Waxstein said.
The homicide caps a string of violence on the Coastside in recent weeks. In an incident that police said is not directly related, local Sureno gang members attacked Norteno gang members from Hayward on March 21 in the parking lot at Francis State Beach with rocks, bottles and sticks. At least one person was injured in the brawl and several cars were damaged.
Police are also investigating the March 26 murder of local transient Randy Searl, who was shot multiple times by an unknown assailant near Pigeon Point Lighthouse, and the March 26 drowning of 41-year-old Hayward resident Janine Clark, whose body was found at San Gregorio State Beach on the morning of March 27.
Sheriff's detectives are investigating all three incidents. The Sheriff's Office has yet to comment on exactly what led up to the violence near Surfer's Beach early Saturday morning, and whether or not the two groups knew each other beforehand.
Waxstein said local Sureno gang members have stepped up their violent defense of their turf in recent weeks
"Surenos have claimed the Coastside as their turf, and if they encounter people who claim another gang, they're going after them with rocks, bottles and sticks," he said.
Coastsider Chad Conover, who said he knew Patino for years, said local Surenos take pride in their hometown and want to be shown respect by visiting gang members from out of town. They do so, he said, without guns.
"You don't ever hear about locals shooting people," he said. "It's not part of our culture here to have guns."
Copyright © 2004Half Moon Bay Review and Pescadero Pebble.
Pillar Point turns deadly
By Jim Welte--Half Moon Bay Review
At around 1 a.m. Saturday morning, Danville resident Joanna Flowers and her husband sat inside their RV at the Pillar Point RV Park watching the horror flick "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
Flowers said that while the on-screen shrieking largely drowned out the screams accompanying the horrific scene going on outside their RV near Surfer's Beach - a gang fight that ended in the first murder within Half Moon Bay in seven years - the violence scared at least one of their neighbors in the park so much that she drove home to Modesto in the middle of the night.
"It just sounded like a bunch of really intense partying to us, with lots of screaming," Flowers said. "It didn't occur to us that it was violent."
Violent it most certainly was, according to accounts from witnesses, those within earshot and police.
Police have arrested Porfirio Grijalva and Chhai Va, both 20 years old and from Antioch, for the killing of Carlos Patino, an 18-year-old Half Moon Bay native and resident of the Main Street Park housing complex.
Grijalva remains in custody at the San Mateo County jail without bail, facing felony charges of homicide, attempted murder against another man who suffered a gunshot wound, and a "gang enhancement" charge, meaning that Grijalva was known to police as a participant in gang activity. Va faces an accessory charge as the alleged driver of the getaway car. He posted $10,000 bail on Sunday.
Grijalva and a group of friends, all from the East Bay and reportedly affiliated with the Norteno gang, were reportedly on the receiving end of a rock- and bottle-throwing assault from local Sureno gang members, until Grijalva retreated to his van in the parking lot, got a gun and started shooting.
"A rock fight escalated into a gunfight," said Half Moon Bay Police Cmdr. Lon Waxstein. "The evidence suggests that he was chased by a group of locals to his van, and then he pulled out the gun."
Grijalva reportedly fired seven shots in the direction of his attackers, hitting Patino and an unidentified man. Patino was rushed to Seton Medical Center Coastside, where he died an hour later. The second victim was treated at San Mateo Medical Center for a gunshot wound and later released.
Police said that Va drove Grijalva and four others away from the scene in a white 1988 Dodge minivan, heading north on Highway 1.
Within 15 minutes of getting reports of the gunfire at around 1:40 a.m., Half Moon Bay police learned that Pacifica police had pulled over the assailants' minivan near the Shell gas station on Highway 1 at Fassler Avenue in Pacifica after a short chase that started just north of Devil's Slide.
All six subjects inside - three women and three men in their late teens and early 20s - were identified by witnesses and local Surenos involved in the assault. The subjects were detained, and Grijalva confessed to pulling the trigger, according to Waxstein.
Police woke up Flowers and dozens of other people staying in the RV park at around 4 a.m. Many of them said they heard screaming that intensified quickly and turned violent. The entire incident lasted less than an hour, witnesses said.
Police interviewed witnesses early Saturday morning while police and Sheriff's detectives examined the parking lot crime scene, which included scattered broken glass and a pool of blood where Patino was shot. Later Saturday morning, Sheriff's search teams scoured the tall grass just east of Highway 1 between Surfer's Beach and the sign indicating the southern city limits of Moss Beach, where the assailants reportedly disposed of the gun while fleeing the scene.
Sheriff's crews found the gun in the tall grass near the sign Sunday just two blocks south of the Sheriff's Coastside substation.
Patino's family could not be reached for comment. It is widely known that while he was listed as a Redwood City resident, he grew up in Half Moon Bay, attended Pilarcitos High School and was frequently contacted by police in recent years on the Coastside.
"He claimed the Coastside, not Redwood City," Waxstein said.
The homicide caps a string of violence on the Coastside in recent weeks. In an incident that police said is not directly related, local Sureno gang members attacked Norteno gang members from Hayward on March 21 in the parking lot at Francis State Beach with rocks, bottles and sticks. At least one person was injured in the brawl and several cars were damaged.
Police are also investigating the March 26 murder of local transient Randy Searl, who was shot multiple times by an unknown assailant near Pigeon Point Lighthouse, and the March 26 drowning of 41-year-old Hayward resident Janine Clark, whose body was found at San Gregorio State Beach on the morning of March 27.
Sheriff's detectives are investigating all three incidents. The Sheriff's Office has yet to comment on exactly what led up to the violence near Surfer's Beach early Saturday morning, and whether or not the two groups knew each other beforehand.
Waxstein said local Sureno gang members have stepped up their violent defense of their turf in recent weeks
"Surenos have claimed the Coastside as their turf, and if they encounter people who claim another gang, they're going after them with rocks, bottles and sticks," he said.
Coastsider Chad Conover, who said he knew Patino for years, said local Surenos take pride in their hometown and want to be shown respect by visiting gang members from out of town. They do so, he said, without guns.
"You don't ever hear about locals shooting people," he said. "It's not part of our culture here to have guns."
Copyright © 2004Half Moon Bay Review and Pescadero Pebble.
