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As the Abbot Kinney Festival winded down last night, shots were fired, hitting a man and a woman. "The shooting may have been due to a dispute," Cecil Manresa of the LA Fire Department said in an e-mail alert at 10:10 p.m. "Both patients were critical and transported to a local hospital." But later, one victim, Adam Pacheco, died. The other victim, a 25-year-old woman, was still critical with a gunshot wound to her face. The suspect is a male Hispanic, about 5 feet 9 inches, medium build, with shoulder-length dark hair and dark clothing, according to CBS2.
Abbot Kinney Festival Ends in Shooting Death
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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Wow!
I was at the AK street fair with BingosDingo 'til around 4:30-5:00.
I'm glad we left early.
Festival was scheduled to end at 6:30 pm. Curious that the news report says 9:30 pm "just as the festival was winding down".
I think that meant winding down as "take down"
Keeprap!!!
Good thing we left. I notice the news hounds don't mention where in the stretch (from Venice Blvd to Main Street) this happened. I can't say that shoulder length hair is all that distinctive either considering how many men I saw with hair that long.
The implication that it was a vendor dispute seems premature.
I, for one, thought the festival was overly commercial. There were three stages for bands none of which actually had signs saying who the bands were. If you missed it at the beginning of the set "tough luck." Those I heard sounded pretty good though.
There were very few open spaces between vendor stalls and only a few seemed to know the word "discount." Odd in the financially insecure times.
There were a tens of thousands of people.
On the plus side there were an almost unbelievable number of attractive women of various builds and ages. Whoowah!
I would like to know what the city charged for each spot. Even at ten dollars (unlikely) they made a killing. *cough*
It happened in front of The Otherroom (1201 Abbot Kinney). I was about a block away in a restaurant and walked upon the scene about 30 minutes after it happened. We heard the helicopters while we were eating but had no idea what had gone on. It was chaos and many people were visibly shaken... walking around the taped off perimeter dazed and tearful.
There is an in depth first person account of what happened on Yelp by a guy named Clay G.. He was right there when it happened and tended to the victim until the paramedics arrived (which apparently took quite a long time).
http://www.yelp.com/topic/venice-fatal-shooting-after-abbot-kinney-fest
I assume (and hope) this guy talked to the police because he seemed to have a lot of as of yet unreported and pertinent details (ie: the mid- sized white get-away truck, etc) that could help in the search for the gunman.
I was a vendor and the booth space- for a 10x10 was $450.00- Hardly $10.00 which would still have been too much. The fair was a mess- horribly organized, a lot of chaos and pissed off people- I would not have been surprised if the shooting was vendor related. The mood was angry (business sucked)and people seemed generally grumpy.
Thanks Blankety. I asked a vendor of bacon dogs what he paid, but he claimed he couldn't remember since the fees were required almost a year prior.
One of the things I saw that bothered me a lot was a Gas Co. crew working on a gas line with literally thousands of people around them. This was less than a block inside the festival from Venice Blvd.
Venice is still an area that is sketchy to go into after sunset. It's been this way for quite a while. I understand that's it's better than it was, but it's still dangerous at night.
At $450.00 per 10 X 10 foot space the city made considerably more than it spent on the festival. The vendor density was so complete that there were very few areas where the crowds could sit down and eat or rest. Except for a few spots it was wall to wall vendors.
So why was the return on investment so poor? It wasn't due to the turn-out. I'd say it was a combination of the economic situation and high vendor density.
The link rizzo provides could quite possibly be the most accurate report on what happened. Not the video from CBS. The poster ClayG has a fairly detailed report as he was twenty feet from the shooter when it happened.