Los Angeles authorities and a major local corporation are offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the capture the bicyclist who shot and killed a 1-year-old boy Monday while he was in his father’s arms, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Police Chief Charlie Beck called the shooting of Angel Mauro Cortez-Nava by a teenage assassin wearing a hoodie an “awful tragedy.” The boy’s father, Mauro Cortez, 24, was also injured in the shooting near their home.

"Gang violence touches everybody," he said. "People have to understand that even though gang members may target each other, victims cross a wide, broad swath. It's extremely unfortunate," he told the board and the Los Angeles Times.

The cyclist fired several shots as he rode by, police said.

The infant was shot in the stomach and died at a hospital following surgery. The father was struck in the shoulder and was released from the hospital Tuesday.

They have not released a motive, but Beck, relatives and neighbors all pointed to the gang feud.

The attacker was black and the father is Latino, authorities said. Neighbors told the Times they have been caught in the crossfire of a six-month turf war between Fudgetown, a black gang, and the Hispanic Barrio Grape Street gang.

The city council voted Tuesday to offer a $50,000 reward for information leading to the suspect's arrest and conviction.

The Los Angeles Kings, on the verge of winning their first Stanley Cup, doubled the reward by offering their own $50,000, the team announced Tuesday night.

Tim Leiweke, president of the group that owns the Kings, said the team was offering the reward "to make sure everyone knows this is unacceptable in our city."

At the time of the shooting the Kings were just 10 miles away at Staples Center in the process of going up 3-0 on the New Jersey Devils.

In an interview with CBS2 Tuesday, Cortez said through a translator that he was devastated, that his son was everything to him and that he is scared. He asked the public for help finding the gunman.

The gang feud has resulted in more than a half-dozen killings in the area in the last year, police said.

"I have seen plenty of people pass away here. For a child to go, this has to stop immediately," neighbor Marcus Williams said. "When a child, a child, a baby, this kid didn't have a chance at life. It really hurt. I'm afraid to let my kids play in the yard now. This is right across the street."

One of the men Cortez was with on the sidewalk may have been wearing a purple shirt when the shooting took place, a color some associate with the Barrio Grape Street gang, the Times said. Grape Street is one block west of Hickory.

Cortez is an immigrant from Jalisco, Mexico, who did odd jobs, friends and relatives told the Times. When he showed up three years ago, the Cervantes family took him in, matriarch Sara Cervantes said.
Cortez had nothing to do with any gang, neighbors said.

He got married and in 2011, Angel was born.

"He was always here playing with the baby. The baby was his life," said Maria Trujillo, another member of the family. "With these shootings going on, you don't feel safe in your own front yard," she added.

"There was a shooting around over there on the corner a block away; one on Wilmington, and another up around the corner," said Miguel Medina, an unemployed construction worker who has lived on the street for five years. "When I came here it was calm, but then six months ago they began killing each other."

A black teen wearing a hoodie? I am sure Al Sharpton will be all over this.

lol

do you think the police painted the shooter as a 'squeaky clean' person who was just defending themself?

,,probably gonna be handled JUSTLY by police who will try to find out what happened and WHY and convict someone for the death,,,

thumbs up to those offering a reward,,,,

Well, all the 'hoodie' media hype worked...imagine that.

Today i didn't even have to use my AK,i gotta say it was a good day.

'You got to give this teenager some slack and understand where he comes from. A hundred and fifty years ago his ancestors may have been slaves, and he had to live with the stigma that his welfare mother couldn't afford to buy him new Micheal Jordan's because her crack money was more important.
There...that should be enough excuses for the media to leave the poor kid alone

Perhaps Michael Bloomberg and Raool Greehalva can propose a ban on hoodies!!!

Your rocketship ain't big enough for everyone who fits on it!

The skies would darken from the individual "fly bys"

My good old friend Paul came up with an excellent idea to eradicate violent crime in Toronto. His suggestion was to give every person who has family members die in turf war gang violence, a proper university education. Au gratis by the city.

I said, wtf is that.

He sniggled, and said that all the people in low-income disadvantaged neighbourhoods will snuff their own families to get a free education.

Of course the meanest, basest of his sarcasm lies in the fact that low income hoodies (of any race and color) usually don't give a flying f about education of any kind.

But that's the kind of man that Paul was. He had a sense of humour about him.

There was also an ongoing joke in the city for a while, after a few very good looking blonde bi-standers were shot to death by mistake.

One was: why did the girlfriend of the ghetto hoodie (of any race and colour) go for an abortion? Coz crime stoppers gave her fifty bucks to go for it.

There is some actual truth in this. I don't know what the truth is, coz I am only on the edge of the welfare system, an outsider looking in. But after much media attention in the eighties how all welfare people make huge piles of welfare babies to boost their welfare income, there was all of a sudden a big silence about this. It turns out that the government somehow found a way to put a baby-stoppage to this, and I don't know how they did it, but it's effective. Across all states, counties and even countries. I don't think it's tying tubes, but could be. Maybe financial incentives?

I am curious abou this.

Isn't that what Al Not-so-Sharpton would preach?

I was being sarcastic.

Here, if a woman with a couple of kids works enough hours a year, she takes home what is called earned income. It's basically a reward and incentive to push out more rugrats.

There was also an ongoing joke in the city for a while, after a few very good looking blonde bi-standers were shot to death by mistake.

But Paul had to have his own angle on this one too. He said the police force ought to give "basic gun handling safety" seminars and courses and "target shooting theory and practice" to gang members, because in Canada guns are not allowed, and those who have them, therefore practically don't know which end the bullet comes out of in the gun.

I mean, don't even begin to try and underestimate the IQ of a hoodie, because you will fail miserably.

The police chiefs in Toronto invariably have Irish and Scottish last names. The one that went out a few years ago was called McCormack; the new one is called O'Brien.

The force is multi-cultural, and have women on the force. Unfortunately, because it's bad practice, you sometimes get into an uncontrollable fit of laughter, for instance when two chinamen come to arrest you. They will tell you, in a whiney voice, "we've come to allest you." You can't stop thinking of that famous line in the kung fu tv show in the seventies. In a whiny voice the guy always said, "I do not want to halm you" but the whities kept on being azzoles, and the kung fu guy eventually and invariably ended up beating the crap out of them to a pulp.

His student ID in monk school showed the name "Little Grasshopper".

If you ever want to see an effed up city, go to Toronto as a resident. The city fathers have the murkiest minds. For intance, they built a high speed street car line along on a major city street artery. This reduced car traffic in rush hour from three lanes in either diretction to one lane, respectively. The street cars go at an estimated top speed of fifteen kilometers an hour. (approx. nine miles an hour.) this is so, coz because the streetcar tracks are dedicated, and therefore there is a left turn and U turn lamp at every pigsht intersection along the route. There is no room for bicycles. The artery is flanked by neighbourhoods of dead end streets and stuff, so bicyclists, if they wanted to have their way, would need to veer norht or south for two kilometres (mile and a quarter) either north or south, and then come back.

AAAAAnd the whole thing cost five billion dollars, and took eight years to build.

I had to move away from that city. I am alleric to stupidity.

So the hoodies with the guns who shoot blondes and babies prove to be untalented and harmless beginners when you compare them to how much damage the establishment guys do to the city.

Oh, the cost of a hoodie to city, to keep him on the streets: $10,000 a year, to keep him in jail, for the same period: $80,000. The cost of a city father, at large on his job: $1,000,000, and to keep him in jail: $80,000.

The math speaks eloquently. If the idiots wanted to save Toronto, they would give free university education to the hoodies, and lock up all city fathers in the deepest, darkest city dungeon bunkers under heavy guard.

Even the angel of death wears a hoodie. Could that be were the fad began. Thugs wanna' be merchants of death?

Hoodies are just another tool in the class warfare wars.

The MSM once again fills them like a trojan horse!

I used to think lawyers were the lowest lifeform on earth.....

The MSM has long since taken that prize!

Desparate attempts to increase profit shares does not produce sound judgement or sound news!

I am not sure where you live. IN america we had what was called 'welfare reform'.

Most on welfare have a limit of 2-5 years a LIFETIME they can receive any assistance so having more babies does more harm than good for them since they will have to find a way to continue caring for said children once their time frame is up.

I am not sure either, where I live. My life is so reduced in quality, experiences, joy and longevity, that it may as well not be.

But in Canada there are no "starve to death or else turn to crime" laws like in the US.

You can live on welfare indefinitely. There are drawbacks: your standing in the community is low, people shun you on the streets and in county fairs, chances are that your children will never reach sexually reproductive age (except for a few weeks, which is enough for them to produce seven babies, if they hurry), the money is so little that you have to spend most of your waking time on walking to foodbanks and soup kitchens and back.

Begging is not as easy as it's cracked up to be. If you want to make any serious dough, you have to stand in a spot in a high-income area. In there, you need to learn how to feel comfirtable with constantly squirming, as most of your old Latin professors will come across you daily.


There are a few good points, too. If you are on welfare due to not being disabled, but just inept or something, then you are given a rake or a shovel, by the city, and you have to do unpaid work. The work is for short hours, I don't know how many, but probably for about four hours a week. I have no idea whatsoever how much a week. There is never demaining, dirty work, although I also don't know what work is performed.

This gets the people out into the fresh air, they do some body work-outs, by shovelling or raking. Their self-esteem is raised, because everyone knows work makes you free. (Arbeit macht frei. Old slogan from Auschwitz.) Their gastro-intestinal system gets a bit of a shock-treatement, by bending and by getting the itchy part scratched, so passing a move becomes more regular.