Homicide Report > Mark Salisbury, 39
Mark Salisbury, 39
Died March 26, 2011 at 5:35 a.m.
Mark Salisbury, a 39-year-old black man, was shot and killed Saturday, March 26, in the 800 block of East 116th Place in Green Meadows, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.
Salisbury was on his way to work about 4:50 a.m. when he was approached by an unknown assailant and shot, said Ed Winter, spokesman for the coroner's office.
Salisbury was taken to a hospital in Torrance where he died at 5:35 a.m. Coroner's records said he was shot in the torso.
In an email to The Times, his wife, Ricca Salisbury, said her husband graduated from Verbum Dei High in 1989 and attended El Camino College.
[Editor's note: An earlier version of this post incorrectly spelled Ricca Salisbury's name as Nicca Salisbury.]
At the time of the shooting, she said Salisbury was en route to his family's business, Walton Auto Wrecking & Towing in Compton, where he had worked since he was a teenager.
"We met in 1990 and are still together - that is 22 years. We have 2 beautiful kids a 17-year-old just shy of her 18th by 3 weeks and leaving for college in 3 months and a 8-year-old who is the spitting image of her father," Ricca Salisbury wrote. "He bought the most randown house on the block and with his blood, sweat and tears turned it in a beautiful home for his family. He was killed right outside our home which now makes it hard for us to look out the window or even leave our house because the memories are so strong of what happened that morning."
Anyone with information about the shooting can provide an anonymous tip by calling Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS (800-222-8477).
— Megan Garvey
- Neighborhood: Green Meadows
- Age: 39
- Gender: Male
- Cause: Gunshot
- Day of the week: Saturday
- Agency: LAPD Criminal Gang Homicide
- Race/Ethnicity: Black
- Circumstance: Walk-up
- Crime scene: Front yard
17 reader comments about Mark Salisbury
This was no random crime. This was an ambush. Some animal took a kind and loving, hard working man away from his family and everyone who loved him. He was my friend, I loved him, and I'll miss him forever.
March 28, 2011 at 9:41 p.m.
Mark was my brother and this is senseless. He was a married family man with NO gang ties. word has his walton stepbrothers may have had something to do with it. walton's tow yard. like to think otherwise, have no personal knowledge. hope this doesn't go cold and unsolved.
March 28, 2011 at 10:45 p.m.
Someone robbed our family of something we can never get back. I'll love and miss you always cousin.
March 29, 2011 at 2:10 p.m.
It is a damn shame a good young man on his way to work to support his family has his life cut short.
Brave men hide in light; Cowards hide in shadows.
Mark will always have a place in my heart.
CHARLES
March 29, 2011 at 7:54 p.m.
this is messed up, so many of his peers in got into gangs and drugs in the1980s when he was a teen...as you can see many more people in the hood dont follow that route! when i go to la and compton and watts....this is what is see..hard working guys with pick up trucks, vans. etc parked in the drive ways of their
nice houses that they worked so hard for. I feel sorry for his children and his wife. This is what we get? We are told to do the right thing make the right choices go to school and get a job etc... when we do ..we still get shot down in the streets like a 19 yr old in south central in 1991! I feel like this will happen to me one day.. im a working man...go to work to provide for my daughter.. hope the killer will get caught for this...
April 2, 2011 at 9:49 a.m.
my daddy was an exceptional man , and i appreciate the fact the l.a times edited their first report on the situation, this is much better , because my daddy was great and deserves more than a few sentences. he was a hardworking father and loving husband to my mother RICCA Salisbury. this has really tore us apart and its really hard too continue with our lives and stay strong because we all want to just curl up and cry in the corner. yes , if anyone has any news or clues or anything , say something , because this was not an accident. the best dad in the world was murdered without explanation and it isn't fair to us , for it to go on unsolved. my mom said we have to continue to act like ladies because we're representing him , but its hard because everyone is so angry. i love my daddy very much , i felt , i just had to let the l.a times and its readers know.
April 5, 2011 at 9:24 a.m.
I did not know Mark, but I am praying for your family.
April 5, 2011 at 1:51 p.m.
My heart feels so much pain at the thought that this beautiful man was taken by a senseless act. At a time when I was feeling a lot of self doubt, I was embraced by the Salisbury family, including Mark and Ricca. Beautiful man, beautiful father. Heavenly Father take him into your fold and ease the pain of his family.
April 7, 2011 at 9:53 p.m.
I hope the police look into his step brothers gang activities and life style . Mark had told friends that he was having problems with some guys that got into it with his step brothers ( both have gang affiliations and where involved in a gang shooting with rivals in 2008, both where shot in two separate incidents). Mark was never involved in gangs or even portrayed or dressed as if he was. We use to go to the lake every year, YOU WILL BE MISSED.
April 8, 2011 at 8:18 p.m.
I dont know the young man but I truely feel for the family and friends. Getting to the root of these problems is going to start with the communities. If LAPD had shot this brother do you know how many people would be protesting and in an uproar? Where is this same reaction when a young punk takes a good hard working man out such as this? Take back your communities people!!
April 9, 2011 at 9:37 a.m.
My love and prayers go out to the Salisbury Family. My sons father was also a victim to an violent act. (07/04/2009) Shot and killed by an unknown Monster with cruel, evil, & envious heart! Although he had the reputation of a HERO! A kind and giving man! He was takin away from his family that loved and depended on him daily!
To the Salisbury family, stick together and keep God first, I know its easier said than done...but He will always make a way!
April 12, 2011 at 7:57 a.m.
brich1968, of course people will be an uproar if the LAPD or any PD would have killed the victim because they are suppose to protect and serve the community.. DUH!!!
April 12, 2011 at 10:05 a.m.
I pray God watches over this man's family and guides them in everything they do as he probably would of. Such a shame, in a day and age where many children grow up without fathers (by the man's choice) a family who had a LOVING, AWESOME and RELIABLE father is now fatherless (not by the man's choice!) how disheartening.
I truly hope God blesses this family and the police find the cowardly prick who did this.
April 16, 2011 at 11:14 p.m.
Still unsolved ...
May 9, 2011 at 8:05 p.m.
i did not want this to happen but i still have him with me cause he is in me and will always be there for us
Sept. 25, 2011 at 11:22 a.m.
well my nineth birthday passed kaylas in college only if daddy was here today we would have a great time
Oct. 8, 2011 at 9:32 p.m.
My heartfelt condolences to the Salisbury family, Mark seems like he was a hard-working, family man. To his daughters Kayla and Kalea, stay in school, finish college and do well in life. Your father will be proud - you'll represent him well.
Oct. 10, 2011 at 8:43 p.m.
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