SM Police Ask For Public’s Help In Identifying Killers
Carolanne Sudderth
Mirror Staff Writer
The Santa Monica Police Department is asking the
public’s help in identifying the persons responsible for three
shootings and the resulting four deaths last October.
SMPD Lieutenant Gary Gallinot said the City of Santa
Monica is offering a $25,000 reward per incident for information
leading to arrest and conviction of the perpetrators.
Gallinot gave a brief recap of each incident.
The first, a drive-by shooting, took place on Oct. 12,
1998 at 8:30 p.m. At Sixth Street and Pico Boulevard, Omar Sevilla,
22, was shot by two Hispanic males in a dark "Japanese-made"
vehicle.
The second shooting occurred at Eddie’s Junior
Market at 20th and Pico on Oct. 17 at 4:40 p.m. Juan Marty Campos was
chased into a store by several Hispanic males and shot multiple times.
Gallinot said the shooter covered his face prior to and during the
shooting and was identified only as a male Hispanic in his late teens
or early 20s. Suspects fled in a large, late-model Dodge Neon. Police
later learned the car was stolen.
The third and final incident took place on Oct. 27, at
12:10 p.m. when three male Hispanics carrying an assault rifle and
several handguns entered a business in the 1900 block of Lincoln
Boulevard and shot four people. Anthony Robert Juarez and his brother,
Michael Anthony Juarez, both of Cayucos, died of multiple gunshot
wounds. Gallinot said that two Santa Monica residents were also hit
but have since recovered.
The suspects were driven from the scene by a fourth
male in a stolen Dodge Neon.
A proclamation in which California Governor Gray Davis
offered an additional $20,000 for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of suspects in the Juarez case was presented by Frank
Grimes, executive director of the governor’s office of criminal
justice planning and law enforcement liaison
Persons having information on the shootings may
contact Sgt. Ray Cooper at (310)458-2273
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