Homicide Report > Salvador Arredondo, 19
Salvador Arredondo, 19
Died April 8, 2007 at 4:52 a.m.
Salvador Arredondo, 19, a Latino young man, was shot in a double homicide that also took the life of Fabian Cooper, 21. Arredondo died at 6:12 a.m. Sunday, April 8.
Deputies said the two friends were shot while leaving a party in the 2100 block of W. 108th Street at Van Ness in Athens at about 3 a.m.
They were getting into a car together when two black men attacked them, shooting both in the torso, then fleeing. Cooper died at the scene; Arredondo died three hours later at a hospital.
They were lifelong friends, randomly targeted, investigators said. Arredondo was a student at Marymount College. When Sheriff's Det. Mark Lillienfeld went to search his car, he found college catalogues, textbooks and notebooks from Arredondo's classes at Marymount.
Lillienfeld looked over the notebooks and recalled thinking: "Seems like he was excited about being in college. Everything was very neat, clean and organized, and he had taken a lot of notes."
The party hosts charged admission, and scores of people were there. The killers may have had some gang rivalry with some of those in attendance, and chosen to attack noncombatants Arredondo and Cooper simply because they happened to be outside.
Nearly all the party goers fled before investigators arrived, and few have offered help finding the killers. Investigators hope more will contact police and tell them what, if anything, they saw or heard. (323) 890-5500.
- Neighborhood: Westmont
- Age: 19
- Gender: Male
- Cause: Gunshot
- Day of the week: Sunday
- Agency: LASD Homicide
- Race/Ethnicity: Latino
- Circumstance: Walk-up
- Crime scene: Public place
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Three reader comments about Salvador Arredondo
You're always in my heart n memory..there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about you!...we love u n miss you dearest. I love you cousin
Jan. 28, 2010 at 4:38 p.m.
the other day i freaked out when someone walked the way you walked, crashed down when i knew it wasn't you; seen your face in one thousand places. i don't understand how God chooses who he's gonna snatch down. like i wanna run up to Heaven w. gats, find you&blast us out; but how the hell am i suppose to influence"Stop the Violence" instead i sit&write it out. Stop the violence! you've snatched a huge part of our heart, an innocent, loving young man w. many dreams.
i miss you Chubby!
-Julie
Oct. 17, 2010 at 7:52 p.m.
Two lifelong friends, one latino and one black, who died together. Although it ended terribly, we would all benefit by more stories of black/brown bonding. I am black and live in seattle and my brown mijos are the best people in the world, always plying me with food and drink and introducing me to other latinos.
Dec. 5, 2010 at 11:23 p.m.
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