Teenage girl shot dead while walking home with friend in Pomona

A 17-year-old girl walking home with a friend in Pomona was shot and killed Tuesday night, police said.

The girl and teenage boy were confronted by two men about 11 p.m. at the corner of Olive and Glenroy streets, said Sgt. Robert Baker of the Pomona Police Department.

The men asked the girl and her companion if they had a gang affiliation, Baker said. When the pair said they did not, one of the men of the men pulled out a handgun and started shooting.

The young man ran away and was unhurt, but the girl was hit and died at the scene, Baker said.

-- Kate Linthicum

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Comments

[TheBigPicture]

It seems kind of late for a 17 year old to be roaming the streets on a school night...Sounds like they all had gang affiliation...

[So sad]

What cowards to ask a question and then shoot anyway. Condolences to the young woman's family.

[Sylvia]

Gang violence has hit rock bottom! Not only are gang members out to kill eachother but now they are killing innocent people! We can no longer walk the streets of our nieghborhood without being terrified.

[WP]

is there a more cowardly act in the world than two men shooting an unarmed little girl?

[Dodger Tony]

Oh, I see. I guess it's Monty Python and the Holy Grail, right? If you don't answer the question the right way, you get blown away. Huh? Who would have known? Where does one get the Gang manual on the right answer?

[Delia]

How very sad that our kids are being killed on our streets and for what? It's so stupid! My prayers go out to the girls family and may she REST IN PEACE! Too young to die!

[Kevin]

Coward. Sad that the young boy decided to run away, leaving a girl to take the bullet. He should have at least tried to defend the girl he was with. I would rather take a bullet and die trying to save a girl I was hanging out with - than run away like a coward and let the poor girl die.

Those gangbangers are even more cowardly shooting a girl and an unarmed boy.

[Joy]

Wait she was walking with a boy at 11pm for what reason????

[Marcia Twane]

This likely would not have happened if there were better gun laws in place and no guns on the street.

Period.

[College Student]

I started college when I was 17, and walking down the street accompanied by a young gentleman at 11pm isn't anything out of the ordinary.

Perhaps she was a Cal Poly student?

[Antdroid]

@ Joy - So a young girl is senselessly murderd by two gang bangers and all you can focus on is the time of night she was out walking with a boy??? What the effing difference does that make?!?!?!?

[kooo]

Ok, for some people, it's too much to have compassion or intellect to figure out that for the average 17 year old, they do not yet possess a car, thus must use something called "legs" to move around sometimes. What do some of these commenters want? A conviction for "walking home" due to being born to parents who couldn't buy her a car?! Prayers to the family and rest in peace.

[Khrystyne]

Joy-
It shouldn't matter. A 17 YO, especially these days, is practically an adult. Even if they both broke their parents' rules & snuck out to have sex. Her death was senseless.

[Dee]

And us as young teenagers wonder why our parents are so strict on what hour we should be at home.... Our parents are strict for a reason! I'm so sorry for that girls family. And dont get me started on Gangs in a whole... they think theyre all macho but in reality its the stupidest idea anyone has ever come up with! To defend a street or a neighborhood by killing other people and making those stupid sign with their hands... My goodness the supposed macho men act like children!

[Non-Gang Member]

The question may have been asked by the gang members to make sure they were not shooting one of their own. Once they heard the answer, they could shoot at will without fear of "friendly fire." It was probably a gang-related initiation--kill someone to get in. I've heard of several other similar cases of gang-related, unprovoked deaths in the Inland Empire.

[YSF Brown]

It is sad that the young girl is dead, but it was a school night. How come her parents let her go out on a school night. The teachers will be blamed for her being out late.

[J]

Wait she was walking with a boy at 11pm for what reason????

Posted by: Joy
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None of your business! What a mean and condescending thing to say. Just because you don't approve, you seem to imply that somehow she was at fault just because she was walking home with a male escort at 11:00 PM. You must have been a very unpopular senior in high school, or frosh in college (I was 17), to have never been going home at 11:00 PM. It happens, and people don't get shot to death. The time isn't the issue here; she didn't deserve to be murdered.

Besides, for all you know, she might have been an adult in a matter of weeks, but I suppose for you, females should never go out in the evening, even with a male escort.
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It seems kind of late for a 17 year old to be roaming the streets on a school night...Sounds like they all had gang affiliation...

Posted by: TheBigPicture
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Where does it say that this poor young woman was roaming the streets? You have no idea what kind of people the victims were, so you have some nerve to say that they must have been in a gang. And anyway, despite your critical remarks about the *victim*, she did not give anyone the right or call to murder her. Next time you walk to your car, or to your home, after an early evening out, think of her; then imagine people jumping to the same suspicious and unsympathetic conclusions about you, if you happened to fall victim to a terrible crime.

[Tara Murphy]

Condolences to the family and shame shame on the cowardly punks who shot her and their parents for doing such a lousy job of raising them to be human beings.

[wondering]

I'm sorry n my thoughts and prayers go out to the family,but i have a question why was she walking with an 18 year old or older male at 11:00 pm at night? where was mom? just by the way she did her make up it seems as if she was n a gang,im sorry but it really angers me that this happens all the time, parent are hurt but why not try to avoid this kinda things before they happen?? the worse part its our own race killing one another!! pathetic..

[Anonymous]

Kevin, you know nothing to make assumption's...The boy did not run away as how the media is making it look like, how do I know? Simple, I know the boy. Media tend to lie to provoke people to come out so they can get a good story, You were not there and knew nothing of what happened truly, so get you're fact's straight. The boy ran for help..even ran in front of a car to stop it to get help..

[booboo]

Those streets belong to that gang, obviously. The only people who are authorized to walk them are the gang members who own those streets. Maybe the two teens could have asked if it was possible to pay a toll for walking on streets that don't belong to them.

Where did they think they were? America?

[Anna]

It is time for the ACLU to sue the victims for not giving the correct answer and causing anguish in the gang bangers life and then he had to kill her...

[Rae]

J...I couldn't agree with you more..the bottom line is that a young girl is dead for no reason, and a young man had to whitness his good friend be murdered. Kevin,...you were not there to know what the young man, that was with the victim did or did not do...but please think long & hard...would you have taken that bullet if you were in that situation? I doubt that very much so...As far as I know, he ran to get help, he ran out in front of a car to get someone to call 911...So before you make uneducated remarks...think about it... The young man could have ran away, but he did not.

[RebeccaYe]

remember folks, sex is more deadly than violence these days.

(i'm being sarcastic, but seriously, what gets more attention, A woman being murdered or some celebrity screwing around or showing off their boobs? )

[Lene]

Its so sad to hear about this right in your own neighborhood. I have to admit, its not safe in this area. I do agree that why was she out so late especailly in that area. My condolences to her family and friends. I hope these cowards pay for what they have done. No one has the right to take anyone's life.