Marco Antonio Parra, 36

Marco Antonio Parra, 36, a Latino man, was killed in a drive-by shooting at 6824 Albany St. in Huntington Park on Tuesday, April 22. Detectives from the sheriff's homicide bureau are investigating. More soon.

##

Comments

[hp hphphp]

so sad

[hp resident]

this was not a drive-by the man was beaten then executed by gang members

[MELLY GALLEGOS]

I KNEW TONY SINCE 1996 AND HIS FAMILY MEMBERS. HE WAS SO NICE.I STOPED TALKING TO HIM AND BROTHER JONNY FOR A WHILE.THEN WE STARTED HANGING OUT AGIN IN 2002 AND ME AND HIM BECAME BOYFRIEND'S FOR A WHILE THEN WE BROKE UP AND WE STOPPED TALKIN.I WOULD ALWAYS SEE HIM IN THE CLUBES WE WOULD SAY HI BYE AND THAT'S IT.I WAS IN CHOCK WHEN I HERD A FRIEND SAY THAT TONY WAS KILLED NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS THIS TONY UNTIL THEY SAID HE WAS BEARID IN SONORA MEXICO THEN I ASKED WHAT TONY ARE U TALKING ABOUT IS HE FROM SAN LUIS SONORA AND THAY SAID YES IS HE JONNY'S BROTHER AND THEY SAID YES .I STARED CRYING AND JUST THINKING OF HIS FAMILY.HE WOULD ALWAYS HELP THEM OUT .WELL WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY THAT HE WAS A GOOD FRIEND AND HE WILL BE MISSED.LOVE MELLY GALLEGOS

[Gray George]

Every weekday afternoon at 3:15, over 400 middle school students are dismissed from Centennial College Preparatory Academy and flood the exact area where this homicide occurred. I know, because I'm a 7th grade math and science teacher at Centennial. It's frightening to think what might have occurred if Mr. Parra's shooting had happened just a few minutes later. Fortunately for our students, Mr. Parra was killed around 3 p.m., before our students were strolling through the neighborhood as potential targets for stray bullets. As it was, our school was only on lockdown for about thirty minutes as a result of the murder.