{"id":298156,"date":"2010-02-09T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5fcf53ef0120a87c3645970b"},"modified":"2010-02-09T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:26:14","slug":"tagger-turned-murder-suspect-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/298156","title":{"rendered":"Tagger Turned Murder Suspect Sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Los Angeles:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> A 40-year-old Los Angeles man was shot and killed Sunday night after he and a suspected \u201cTagger\u201d got into an argument that escalated to murder.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, February 7, 2010, at around 9:50 PM, Ronald L. Barron was in the 5000 Block of West Pico Boulevard.\u00a0 Investigators believe that Barron had confronted the suspect who he believed was a \u201cTagger.\u201d\u00a0 The suspect became angry and took out a gun and shot Barron multiple times.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The confrontation and shooting occurred in front of numerous witnesses, in the middle of a busy Boulevard.\u00a0 Witnesses described the suspect as calmly walking away after shooting Barron point blank, and then disappearing into a nearby residential area.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Barron was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is believed to be a tagger\/gang member.\u00a0 He is described as a Male Hispanic, 20-25 years, dark short hair, approximately 6\u201900\u201d tall, 180 lbs., thin build.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to call Wilshire Homicide Detectives, Detective Jose Carrillo at 213-473-0446.\u00a0 During non-business hours, call 1-877-LAPD-24-7.\u00a0 Anyone wishing to remain anonymous may call Crimestoppers at 800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477).\u00a0 Tipsters may contact Crimestoppers by texting the number 274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S on most keypads) with a cell phone. All text messages should begin with the letters \u201cLAPD.\u201d Tipsters may also go to LAPDOnline.org, click on &quot;webtips&quot; and follow the prompts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles:\u00a0 A 40-year-old Los Angeles man was shot and killed Sunday night after he and a suspected \u201cTagger\u201d got into an argument that escalated to murder. On Sunday, February 7, 2010, at around 9:50 PM, Ronald L. Barron was in the 5000 Block of West Pico Boulevard.\u00a0 Investigators believe that Barron had confronted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}