Michael Rodriguez, 18

Nov. 17, 2008, 10:47 p.m.

Michael Rodriguez, an 18-year-old Latino man, died of multiple gunshot wounds on Nov. 17, 2008, in the 1000 block of West 11th Street in Pomona, according to coroner's records.

Pomona police said Rodriguez did not respond when they reached him about 10:15 p.m, according to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. He was driven by Los Angeles County fire officials to La Verne's Brackett Field, where they planned to take him by helicopter to a trauma center. Rodiguez died before he was put on the aircraft.

—Anthony Pesce

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Rest In Paradise To My Homeboy Panda We Always Miss u And Love u Bigg Dogg Yew Will Always Be In Our Hearts And Lookin After Us And Ur Lil Carnal We Love Yew Alot And Wont Ever Forget Bout You...You Were a Great Person,Friend,Son Exc. Never Did Anything Wrong Or Disrespect Anyone But I dont Knoe How They Can Say We Never CAred When We Were The Only Ones There For Yew If Only I Woulda Stayed At Least 10 Mins Longer I Woulda Been There With You Gee Unlike That Flipper That Ran Inside And Left You Hanging I Shoulda Made Yew Bounce Out That Night Thats The Only Thing I Regret Bout It But Ur Ina Better Place Now Lookin After All Of Us...I Love Yew And Miss Yew Alot Homeboy I Cant Wait To See Yew Up There Soon Gee
Rest In Paradise "PANDA"
Much Love And Respects

— pomona420 Jan. 27, 2011 at 10:45 p.m.

let me tell you a lil bit of how pomona cops work yesenia...2 years ago me and my brother were standing outside my house when two guys came up to us and started shooting my brother was shot in the chest and in the arm the one iin the chest was not even a half a inch away from the heart my brother was seriously injured and the cops took their time to get to our house when they finally did they kept interigating my brother asking him from wht gang he was and all this nonsense my brother isnt from any gang he dont have tattoos or anything so we kept saying he wasnt from a gang tht he needed medical help and you now wht the stupid cops said they said tht they werent gonna let the paramedics in till they got the whole story and wht had happen my brother could of died tht night his lungs were feeling up with blood we begged them to let the paramedicts see him tht i would tell them wht they wanted to hear and after half an hour the cops let the paramedics in my brother had to be airlifted to la hospital but an officer went on board with him in the helicopter trying to make him say tht he was from a gang but my brother isnt from a gang my brother was in the hospital for over a month draining blood out of his lungs...

— 91766 Nov. 18, 2010 at 1:08 a.m.

Michael was my cousin, well for me he was like a brother. We grew up together in SANTA ANA, michael, his sister, my sister, me and my other cousin that past away too. We like each other like brothers and sisters. My sister and I we would always laugh with him like most every weekend, and we would also talk on the phone a lot too, he was actually a talented person. I know that before he was having problems, he was locked up but then when he came out he changed a lot he would respect everyone in the family, he would give people for advices. I barely found out, when Michael was In Junior High School in "BROOKHURST" he was popular like every girl in school wanted to go out with him. When my sister would tell him "do you remember when you popular in brookhurst every girl would be like look there he goes" He would just laugh. There's thing I still dont get, this is the things I heard how this homicide crime happen. Michael was at his house taking care of his little brother and sister , but like then someone called him to go out side, I think it was one of his friends. So he got out and he went for a walk and he was with his friend. But like out of no where some guys in a car where inside and michael friend took off , I think he went to his house and lock everything up and he left my cousin outside and there was when he got shot. So the guys that shot him were gone and Michael was lying in the ground. The thing that makes me so mad is that he had friends living around there where he got shot, and no one took him to the hospital. He was still alive. So then someone called the ambulance, and the ambulance took so long, like then half and hour. The other thing that I heard and it makes me so man is that some police officer started kicking him and he was still breathing. When finally the ambulance came and they got him side he stopped breathing. He died. Seeing him on the day of the funeral I just couldn't believe that he was dead. Specially when he was buried. Seeing his friends in the funeral, I was like "what are they doing here" but I didn't say anything. I just cant believe that no one wants to say anything like the people that were living there where he got shot, and specially his friends. There's more good memories but I just dont want to keep on typing because it going to make me cry.........

— Yesenia Rodriguez Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:58 p.m.