INSIDE INGLEWOOD-Another shooting homicide occurred in Inglewood. It was the 18th for the year and one more than the entire number of shooting homicides that took place in charter city in 2013.
Marvin Bonifacio, 22, was arrested on Friday by Inglewood police officers at approximately 8:15 a.m. on the 300 block of West Olive in Inglewood near his residence. He was charged with first degree murder (187(A)PC) for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Zuly Flores, a day earlier.Bonifaco was arrested hours later at the location of the shooting.
The Daily Breeze reported that his bail was set at $1 million, but IPD records did not indicate a bail amount.
It is the second shooting homicide in five days and the fifth shooting in Inglewood for the week.
A November 9 shooting death at a Yoshinoya restaurant on La Brea at Century Boulevard resulted in the death of Shuichi Sugimoto, 40. That story was reported at CityWatchLA on November 14.
Two of the shootings did not appear to have any known victims. A shooting near Centinela and Warren Lane in Inglewood’s District 2, however, did result in injury. According to an eyewitness who told Diane Sambrano of the events, “The Warren Lane shooting took place approximately 10 p.m. Thursday. Neighbors were able to put pressure on wounds, [and] when the Paramedics arrived the victim was alive.”
Sombrano is an area resident as well as the President of the Historical Society at Centinela Valley, an organization responsible for the maintenance of the historical Centinela Adobe which is the birthplace of Inglewood.
The shooting to which Sombrano referred took place about a mile away and approximately an hour earlier than the shooting death of Flores.
The earlier shooting has not been reported by IPD or Crimemapping.com, the on-line resource that IPD promised to utilize to keep Inglewood residents informed. (See related story.)
As of November 19, the Flores death has not yet been posted on the LA Times Homicide Blog.
(Randall Fleming is a veteran journalist and magazine publisher. He has worked at and for the New York Post, the Brooklyn Spectator and the Los Feliz Ledger. He is currently editor-in-chief at the Morningside Park Chronicle, a weekly newspaper based in Inglewood, CA and on-line at www.MorningsideParkChronicle.com. Mr. Fleming’s views are his own and do not reflect the views of CityWatch.)
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CityWatch
Vol 12 Issue 94
Pub: Nov 21, 2014
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