Ronnie Burgess, 21

Ronnie Burgess, 21, a white young man, was killed in a drive-by shooting at 7:45 p.m. in the 10100 block of Samoa Avenue in Tujunga.

This happened in a neighborhood of Tujunga called "The Rock." Burgess was walking home. The suspects, a group in a car, cruised by in a car and demanded, "Where you from?"

They shot him for his answer, according to Foothill homicide Det. Pat Barron. Officers got a shooting call and found him dead.

The description of the suspects and their car matched that connected to another shooting case, and also to a pursuit case in Pasadena. Glendale police spotted the stolen car and took the suspects into custody. They found a shell casing in the car. Some of the group were charged with joy-riding and jailed. Because of a legal technicality, the suspects had to be released from Glendale jail on the one charge before being arrested on the other. LAPD Foothill detectives quite literally waited in the street outside the jail. When the suspects walked out, they pounced, handcuffing the group, and arresting them again, this time on homicide-related charges. All the suspects are Latino. One is a minor, another is a woman.

Victim Burgess had had some run-ins with law enforcement. Conflicting police records showed him as the member of more than one Latino gang.