Homicide Report > Daniel Mercado, 23
Daniel Mercado, 23
Died May 3, 2007 at 5:14 p.m.
Daniel Mercado, 23, a Latino man, was shot multiple times, at 12712 Paxton St., and died at 5:14 p.m. Thursday, May 3.
This case was a car-to-car shooting that triggered a three-car crash in the 12700 block of Paxton Street in Pacoima in LAPD's Foothill Division just before 5 p.m. Two guns were recovered from the scene. Officers received a call of shots fired, and found the crashed cars. Everyone who had been in the vehicles had fled, except Mercado, who was left wounded behind the wheel of one of the cars. He later died at Holy Cross Medical Center.
- Neighborhood: Pacoima
- Age: 23
- Gender: Male
- Cause: Gunshot
- Day of the week: Thursday
- Agency: LAPD Mission
- Race/Ethnicity: Latino
- Crime scene: Public place
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Four reader comments about Daniel Mercado
Look at that, ride or die right? and when the S**t hits the fan your "homies" bail and leave you to bleed out.......very sad.
June 24, 2010 at 3:29 p.m.
JJJ - Couldn't have worded that any better
Feb. 9, 2011 at 11:27 p.m.
Thank god I have no homies, because if thats what you call homies I rather be a LONER.
March 17, 2011 at 3:50 p.m.
Very sad!
Your so called "homies" just leave u there bleeding to death..
Jose Hernandez- I so agree with u!
April 28, 2011 at 11:28 a.m.
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