March 29, 2024
Wave of San Bernardino homicides reaches seven in a week
SAN BERNARDINO - (INT) - Homicide detectives are stretched thin trying to keep pace with a wave of fatal shootings.

Investigators have established a link between two of the seven shootings that have left as many people dead in one week.

An early Monday morning incident in an alley near the downtown police station is believed to have been carried out in retaliation for a car-to-car shooting the day before at 5th Street and Mt. Vernon Avenue. Killed in the alley off 'H' Street was Bernard Chew, a 25-year-old transient.

In an effort to head off more violence, police have arrested a relative of the Sunday homicide. That suspect was found to be a felon in possession of as handgun.

Police say they’ve deployed additional officers in an effort to suppress any more retaliatory violence.

At last report, investigators were trying to establish identities of the actual killers in the previous shootings.

Twenty-four people have been slain in San Bernardino so far this year, mostly by gunfire.

Last year, 44 people became homicide victims in San Bernardino including 14 who lost their lives in the December mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center.

Story Date: April 29, 2016
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