Darsy Noriega, 18

Feb. 7, 2011, 9:53 a.m.

Darsy Noriega, an 18-year-old Latina, was shot and killed Wednesday, Feb. 2, near East Avalon Boulevard and South 111th Street in Green Meadows, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Police received a 911 call regarding "gunshots heard" about 11 p.m., said LAPD Criminal Gang & Homicide Det. Scott Smith.

Authorities arrived and found Noriega with several gunshot wounds. She was taken to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where she died, Smith said.

Investigators said the incident appeared to be a walk-up shooting.

Noriega was a documented gang member, Smith said, and the shooting was gang-related.

No arrests have been made in connection with the case, and officials do not have a description of the shooter.

Anyone with information about the killing or the identity of the assailant is asked to contact Dets. N. Kouri or T. Eiman at (213) 485-4341. Those who'd like to leave an anonymous tip can call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.

-- Sarah Ardalani

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Oh no Edward I am more than interested in a program that supports gang intervention programs. As a matter of fact I worked in that arena close to 20 years. What I do not accept is a memorial wall addressing something that glorifies a life style that is steeped in making victims out of gang members and their crimes and lifestyle. And not actually my comparison is exactly on the mark. The mentality is exactly the same...I have worked within corrections for over 15 years listening, crying, preventing, being there and guess what?? The only thing that has changed is that the mentality of the teens and young adults now is that they are more ruthless. They don't care who they hurt or how they hurt them or how they have to hurt in the process of reaching their goal. Years ago there was this unspoken rule that you didn't kill kids and you didn't kill parents and you didn't kill the person you were after in front of kids. Currently it is a free for all and their is no honor amongst thieves. So I am jaded and I don't think your memorial wall is going to change anything. So now that you have raked me over the coals...answer these questions: Where is this memorial wall going to be displayed? Certainly not on the UCLA campus where gang bangers seldom visit. What is your benefit out of this wall? How are you going to advertise this memorial wall? Who is your target audience? I think there are a number of ways that this situation can be handled...ways that your target audience can be reached general blogs that are not specifically addressed to the people you want to reach via your wall. You choice of advertisment was misplaced, you don't ask the victim to help display a memorial for the group that victimzed them.

— Carrie Feb. 28, 2015 at 5:01 p.m.

Edward,
I beg to differ. Glorification is exactly what comes to mind when you use the term memorialize. You want to put her name and "sad" story on a wall some where and you don't think that doing such is glorification? Tell you what how about putting up a memorial to all the veterans who have died in the past 10 years...all young men/women who are between 18-23 years old who actually died as hero's and were all about the same group of the dead gang thugs? Put up a picture of a dead thug and posting his/her story isn't going to change any of these people. A picture a story doesn't mean anything to these thugs...I went to a gang seminar about 18 months ago and as the pictures flashed on the screen I heard about three of them comment about how the pictures were the work of some of his homies. Yeah it was a great seminar!! If pictures and "sad" stories could touch the heart of any of these people gang shootings/killings would have stopped a long time ago. I cannot even encourage you to do a memorial on those killed innocent people killed by gang thugs because those are so few and far between. So no Edward what you want is a glorification of a gang thug(s) and that is not acceptable...is a keen to putting up a memorial for ISIS. As far as grieving family members: 99% of the time the family is very accepting of the criminal life as long as whatever is being done is bringing money. It isn't a problem until the cash register get killed that all of a sudden everybody from mother to father to siblings comes out of the wood work yelling from the top of the hill about the innocence dead thug that was their thug.

— Carrie Feb. 24, 2015 at 8:17 p.m.

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Darsy Noriega, 18

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