ASSOCIATED PRESS
COMPTON POLICE
Detective Tim Brennan sifts through some of the paraphenalia confiscated from suspects arrested for murder or related charges during staged raids by nine federal, state and local law enforcement agencies Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1996. Officers were armed with 19 arrest warrants for suspects responsible for 12 shootings that have occurred inCompton since Sept. 7.. Compton Police Department investigators stated that the motives for some of the shootings may have been in retaliation for the shooting of rap artist Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas Sept. 7, 1996.