PHOTOS: One Wounded, One Dead In Redlands Midday Shooting
Paramedics transport a man who was wounded during a shooting that took place between two apartment complexes along the 700 block of east Brockton Avenue on Friday, November 20, 2015 in Redlands, Ca.
REDLANDS >> Authorities have released the name of a woman who died Friday in a midday shooting that occurred in one of the most crime-ridden areas of Redlands.
The San Bernardino County Coroner’s Department identified the woman as Severa Santos-Velasco, 43, of El Monte. She was walking outside an apartment complex in the 700 block of E. Brockton Avenue, near Post Street, when she was struck by a stray bullet fired from a neighboring apartment complex. Santos-Velasco was taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where she died at 1:20 p.m. Friday, according to a coroner’s news release. • Photos: One wounded, one dead in Redlands shootingRedlands police announced Saturday that Santos-Velasco was not the intended target in the shooting, and was in the neighborhood distributing fliers in an effort to raise money for the funeral of a man killed in the same area last month, 44-year-old Rafael Templos Arce, Lt. Travis Martinez said Sunday.Arce was allegedly beaten by two men in the 1000 block of Post Street on Oct. 23 and later died at the hospital. Three men were arrested in connection with the crime. Farid S. Abujoudeh, 27, and Faris S. Abujoudeh, 25, both of San Bernardino, are suspected of beating Arce to death. Mathew L. Khalaf, 26, of Redlands, was arrested on suspicion of being an accomplice to the alleged crime. A 28-year-old man, the intended target in Friday’s shooting, was wounded and hospitalized.Photos: Residents gather as community to honor victims in Friday’s shooting
Police arrested Prentice Tonell Grant Sr., 55, of Redlands, in connection with the crimes shortly after 6 p.m. Friday near the intersection of Wall Street and Highland Avenue in San Bernardino.
Martinez said Grant was an “associate” of the male victim.
“It was a domestic incident,” Martinez said.
Grant is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in San Bernardino Superior Court. He is being held in lieu of $2 million bail at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, according to online booking records.
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On Sunday, more than 50 people gathered for a community potluck at the Brockton apartment complex to raise money for the two victims and stand together as a community.
Organizer Jamie Beck said it was important for the neighborhood residents to feel safe in the area given the increase of local crime.
A hotbed for crime
The cluster of apartment complexes in the vicinity of Friday’s shooting has long been a hotbed for violent crime.
Aside from Arce’s beating death last month on Post Street, 17-year-old Marcus Green was fatally shot in September 2014 while trying to steal a man’s marijuana plants in the 1000 block of Post Street. Erlindo Rodriguez, 34, of Redlands, was arrested in connection with the shooting.
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In January 2011, four teenage boys were shot, two fatally, outside the Cinnamon Creek Apartments on Oxford Drive, north of Colton Avenue.
Quinn McCaleb, 17, was shot twice in his lower back and the back of the neck. He ran and was able to make it almost 200 yards before he collapsed and died. Andrew Jackson, 16, was shot twice, in the left buttock and near his right knee. He died about an hour later.
Tequan Thomas, 16, was shot once in the left leg. Jordan Howard, 16, was shot once near his left eye. They both survived. A fifth boy, Antonio Puente, 16, was not wounded.
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In June 2014, the three men convicted in the shootings — Anthony Legaspi, 20, Jose Lara, 30, and John David Salazar, 25 — were sentenced to life in prison
In a news release, Redlands police said the last four homicide cases in the city, including Friday’s, were closed within 10 hours of the crimes occurring, attributing that success to the hard work of police at the onset of the investigations, advanced technology, and trust police have built with residents in the last several years.
“In each of these homicide cases, Redlands citizens have come forward and provided police with important details of the crime allowing the police to immediately generate leads,” the news release states.
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Two years ago, Redlands police launched a program to clean up crime scenes so the families of victims do not have to be further traumatized by seeing the blood of their loved ones.