Ok, not Venice-specific, but near Venice and open to all…and it sounds like a ton of fun!
The taping for the 1st Annual Worldwide Fido Awards will be this Friday at Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport. Doors open at 6:30pm. Anyone is welcome (RSVP to veronica@wwbiggies.com.) There will be tons of great dogs getting awards for being great dogs on video. The show will air on Nickelodeon (Nick at Night) on Sunday. (promo video after the “more” jump)
Here is a slide show I made of the 2008 Abbot Kinney Festival. It was a lot of fun and a good time was had by many, which is sadly overshadowed at the present time by the events that occurred after it had “officially” ended.
In it, Bill Rosendahl and the LAPD discuss the murder of 31 year old Adam Pacheco last Sunday outside of The Other Room Venice and another unrelated murder of Braylon Williams September 23rd in the 4800 block of Marionwood Drive in Mar Vista at the Mar Vista Gardens Housing Project.
Councilman Bill Rosendahl and the LAPD held a press conference today to discuss the murder of 31 year old Adam Pacheco last Sunday outside of TheOtherRoom and another unrelated murder of Braylon Williams September 23rd in the 4800 block of Marionwood Drive in Mar Vista at the Mar Vista Gardens Housing Project.
The police would like your help trying to find the suspects. The shooter in TheOtherRoom incident is described as a male hispanic 17-18 years of age that escaped in a white vehicle, possibly a Durango. The shooter walked up to Adam Pacheco and shot him multiple times. The shooter also shot a passing female motorist in the face. The motorist apparently was not a part of anything except being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The attack may be gang related.
Adam Pacheco:
The shooter in the Braylon Williams murder is described as an 18 to 20 year old Hispanic male with medium height and build. The motive appears to be gang related.
Those behind the podium said that there were erroneous emails and false reporting circulating about the events of Sunday evening. They said that out of 100 or so people that were possible witnesses they were only talking to two of them. If you saw what happened, you should call them up.
All parties were adamant that Sunday nights shooting was unrelated to The Abbot Kinney Festival. Next year they may plan to have the festival shut down at an earlier hour, however.
We will put up video of the entire conference later.
We have been getting an increasing number of emails from Venice Residents regarding crime. Police officers have told us that crime is down from a year ago, yet it doesn’t “feel” like it is.
Yesterday a person was killed after the Street Festival near the Other Room. Last week a guy was stabbed and ran to the Venice Free Clinic on Rose for help. Gas is being stolen out of tanks, purses from cars (lock the door next time Larna), rapes in limos and drug dealers are taking over the streets in certain sections of the city. How safe is our home?
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