INSIDE INGLEWOOD-Inglewood’s latest shooting homicide victim was identified by the LA County Coroner as Walter B. Dorsey III, 26, of Venice, California. It is the 19th shooting homicide in Inglewood for this year.
He was shot on Thursday, December 11 at approximately 8:30 p.m. at the corner of Crenshaw Boulevard and Manchester Avenue. An LA County Coroner’s spokesperson said that he was taken to UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Trauma Center 13 miles away. He died at the hospital. According to the coroner, his death was attributed to “multiple gunshot wounds.”
It is unknown why he was not taken to the nearby Centinela Hospital on Prairie Avenue, which is just 1.9 miles away and on the other side of the street from the recently re-opened Fabulous Forum and the recently closed Hollywood Park Racetrack. (The Hollywood Park Casino remains open.)
According to The Chesapeake Today, Dorsey is the namesake of the late Maryland State Senator of the same name, “longtime St. Mary’s County States Attorney Walter B. Dorsey,” pictured above with last Thursday’s murder victim.
The victim is also the grandson of Circuit Court Judge Phillip H. Dorsey and of the late Jeanne Mandel Dorsey, “Maryland’s First Lady when she married Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel in 1974” () and to former Green Bay Packers player John Michael Dorsey who later became the general manager to the Kansas City Chiefs.
The latest murder comes despite a citywide gang injunction instituted in early 2013 by Inglewood’s mayor and former Santa Monica police chief, James T. Butts. Butts is responsible for hand-picking Inglewood’s police chief, Mark Fronterotta, as well as heavily financing the 2013 campaign runs of the two council members—George Dotson of District 1 and Alex Padilla of District 2—where most of the murders over the last two years have been occurring.
Butts was elected in 2011, Fronterotta was appointed in January, 2013 and Dotson was elected in June, 2013.
Dorsey was shot just seven short blocks from Dotson’s house on 4th Avenue near Hardy Street.
Inglewood’s murder rate has steadily risen over the years. In 2013, the LA Times’ homicide blog reported 17 murders. According to its Web site, the Inglewood Police Department (IPD), however, only reported 14 murders.
For the years 2012 and 2011, IPD reported 14 and 13 murders, respectively.
Requests for comment to Butts, Fronterotta and Dotson were not returned.
As of Wednesday, December 17, the LA Times’ homicide blog has yet to post the murder of Dorsey.It has also yet to post the Thursday, November 13 shooting homicide of Zuly Flores by her boyfriend, Inglewood resident Marvin Bonifacio.
(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.) PHOTO CREDIT: Walter B. Dorsey, III, left, with his grandfather, Walter B. Dorsey II, in 2003. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY.-cw
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