by judastaugamma » September 2nd, 2011, 4:53 am
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The Mercado's were Pinoy, not Khmer, and did not come from the "Killing Fields". Marvin was also only convicted of/plead guilty to 8 murders and 10 attempted murders. Beyond that, 6 of those murders he was convicted of were involved completely innocent civilians, either by way of mistaken identity or someone getting an itchy trigger finger during a home invasion. It's also pretty well known that Shyboy was not the trigger man on most, if not all, of those cases but simply because he held shot caller status of the set during such a highly publicized "killing spree" he was charged with the murders directly. Though he was not the only one charged and convicted with the very same murders, as with many gang involved murder cases many people can be charged with the same murder, and it's highly doubtful that he, and 6 other dudes, had their finger on the trigger and squeezed in unison.
In the end it was all for what? Dude got convicted of 8 consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole and will be buried behind the walls.[/quote]
what you read in the newspaper isn't always true.
i grew up in the valley. i went to fulton and van nuys high with the younger guys and little brothers of these guys. i was around when this stuff happened.
1. the 2 hispanics that got killed were valerio street. horsey and elfie. and it wasn't no ambush like the tv/cops make it out to be. valerio street was trying to kick ab out of the hood. before that valerio and abz got along. the whole friction was because of blythe st. blythe and valerio are clicked up and abz and blythe was beefing. abz shot at blythe a few times and one of the abz ran over a blythe with his car , paralyzing him. blythe put pressure on valerio to back them. that's why valerio tried to kick out abz. and as we know it didn't work out that way.
2. the 4 chinese "non-gang members" who got shot at were wah ching and wah ching affiliated. from what i heard , they were in a wah ching coffee shop and they were playing an arcade and one of them put WC in one of the high scores. that's how ab marked them. if they weren't wah ching , they shouldn't have been in a wah ching hangout and they shouldn't have been tagging up wc.
3. the pinoy kid that died , i don't know if he was from anywhere but he was riding with about 4 other carloads. he might not have been the target but the other guys he was riding with might have been. if you read the article about the case , they were leaving a video arcade on balboa and devonshire. that's family fun center. if you're from the valley around the 90's , you'd know that family fun center and the pool hall in the same lot was a major filipino gang hangout. rpb , tgp , flip side , sts , jfx.....all use to hang out there or bang there at one time or another. was he from somewhere? i don't know. was one of those guys in the 3-4 cars they were in from somewhere? i don't know.
4. the tony nguyen who died at golden valley auditorium was from nowhere. he just got in between rpb and abz shooting it out. that whole nonsense was because of him in the 1st place. it started out as a chick fight (his chick). the boyfriends and their friends from both chicks got involved. then rpb and abz got involved. what started out as a fight between 2 chicks , turned into a fight between boyfriends , then a fight involving the boyfriends friends and then ended up into a shootout between rpb and abz.
5. the mercados wasn't even involved in the white boy who died by mistake in the home invasion. that was a leftover from the other case back in '98. the cases they couldn't close in the other case , they added on this new case just to see if something would stick. and in this case they were able to convince the jury.