Jorge Casillas, 28

Jorge Casillas, a 28-year-old Latino man, was shot in the back with a shotgun in the block of 3500 E. Siskiyou Street near the Boyle Heights area at about 10 p.m. Friday, March 7.  Casillas had just arrived home and had exited his vehicle when several Latino men approached him and shot him, said Det. Scott Smith from LAPD's Rampart Division. Casillas was transported to County-USC Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead  at 12:31 a.m. the next day.  Anyone with information about the incident can call (323) 526-3000.

Comments

[GABRIEL]

You meant the world to me, I am living with the hope in my heart that we will be together again. You will always be in my heart. I will always LOVE YOU

[Fabiola]

I will always love you baby, you will always be in my heart.

[nina]

rest in peace lil homie..ULL ALWAYS BE IN OUR HEARTS..WUT GOES AROUND COMES BACK AROUND

[Al]

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[It is what it is]

EJ, I agree with you. It's that never ending cycle that I can remember going back to the 1970's (although I'm sure it's been going on longer than that). In the 70's police locked up a lot of hard core gangsters only to be let out in 80's. When they returned home they found the number of members in their "clicks" dwindling, so they started recruiting new kids. In the mid to late 80's (along with the crack epidemic) more members are arrested and so on and so forth (or atleast this was the cycle in the project where I was raised). Today, we can expect the police/politicians to crack down on these hoods and put them away unit the year 201X, when the politicians have moved on to bigger and better things and law abiding citizens are left to figure things out for themselves.

[rose]

Rest

[ej]

its just crazy now. There are areas that have always been infested with gang problems but now it seems like it's going back to the days of 83',84 when this stuff was at it's peak something definitely has to be done