22-Year-Old Man Killed Outside Club in San Bernardino (Daily Bulletin 08202006). San Beranrdino Deals with #36

Another one makes 36, it is so hard to know that they are just a number in the eyes of San Bernardino News. 36 deaths, I can remember when Rialto had just about 10 shy of this on their worst year back in 1994 or 1995. I was a first in on one of the calls, it was an execution style murder and it made you sick knowing that this guy was just one his way home from his business. He owned a doughnut store and took the daily deposit home with him. Well the criminals followed him home and killed him for only a couple hundred dollars. The only thing that was good on that case was that the family knew there father, husband died for more then $20.00 like some you hear at the ATM and they are killed before they even get their money, for less then $5.00. I don't think that a human Life has a price tag and that is not what I am trying to get across here.

The Detectives did what they could and I am not sure if they were able to get a clearance on that case or not, I know that you live with the case when it remains open and you just wonder how many times that you ran across the killer in the case.

Now San Bernardino has to deal with another death and another death investigation, they are in turmoil in their homicide department, and they have been in the news with the leader of the Homicide unit being moved to Robbery when he has been in charge of the Homicide or Murder police for so long. A job that he loves and he is not allowed to do it so they have to air their dirty laundry in the news. fun!!

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22-Year-Old man Killed Outside Club in San Bernardino
By Andrew Silva, Daily Bulletin Staff Writer

SAN BERNARDINO - A shooting outside a neighborhood nightclub Saturday morning left a 22-year-old Riverside man dead, making him the 36th person killed in the city this year.

People inside La Nueva Copacabana in the 1200 block of West Fifth Street reported hearing gunshots at about 2:07 a.m.

Luis Alberto Cejajimenez was found lying in the parking lot, bleeding from the upper body. He was pronounced dead a few minutes later at 2:18 a.m.

By midmorning Saturday, a detective was still doing interviews, and a few streamers of yellow police tape blocked off a home next door and dangled from steel posts on the front of the club's parking lot.

Next door neighbor Freddy Lara, 59, said he sometimes works at the bar, stocking beer.

"People come here to have fun, dance, drink beer," he said as he sat in his front yard.

He was asleep when the shooting occurred and didn't hear anything until he got up and saw the body in the middle of the small parking lot, maybe 20 feet away.

There are occasional fights at the club, he said, but nothing like this.

The club caters mostly to a Latino crowd but others also come by sometimes, he said.

"It's just guys from out of town or gang members" who cause trouble, he said.

The killing is the second in a week after more than a month and a half without a homicide in the city.

On Aug. 12, 21-year-old Joshua Jo-Ell Stanton, of Rialto, was killed in a drive-by shooting in the 1600 block of West 10th Street.

Services for Stanton will be this week. A visitation is set from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. today at Simpson Family Mortuary, 1557 W. Base Line Road in San Bernardino, the man's mother, Gwendolyn Patrick said. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Bethlehem Temple Community Church, 1175 W. Foothill Blvd., in Rialto.

Since the killing of 11-year-old Mynisha Crenshaw in November, city officials and community leaders have focused on cracking down on crime and seeking solutions to the underlying causes of violence in the city's impoverished neighborhoods.