the odd fellows cemetery in hollenbeck. give me the serenity, god, to accept the things that i cannot change. this is the final resting place for her two young sons. ronald brock was a marine, and angel, a gang member. they looked almost like twin, but their lives took two very different paths. both, however, were gunned down in the same year at the same house where they grew up in hollenbeck. people tell me, you know, it is time for me to move on and forget, but i don t think that anybody understands that your whole life was gone seven years ago. seven years after their deaths, five years after we first reported their stories, detectives say they have solved one of the hollenbeck murders, but there is a surprise twist in both cases. the hollenbeck area covers 15 square miles east of downtown los angeles. there are 34 gangs here with
no one is coming forward? no one is coming forward. did they believe it was his brother? we believe so. we have a jailhouse informant. surveillance that house. detective fields need an eyewitness or another gang member to identify ronald s killer, a small trace of dna lifted from a cough drop lifted from ronald s body was not enough to match a profile. some people say that, you know, people in the community, you talk to people and they say, that look, people don t come forward because they are scared to talk to the police for fear of retaliation. is that a valid fear? yes, in any community, because anybody who reports a crime worries about that, but in 29 years on this job, i have lost one witness in 29 years and i have dealt with hundreds and hundreds of witnesses, so it is not as common as someone might think. most of these gangsters are cowards, and they are not going to do anything. the gangs only need to make a few examples to send a message.
name is ronnie angeline brock, named af her father and uncle. she looks like him the way she smiles and walks and talks everything. thank you, god, for not letting me go. thank you for always being there for me, jesus. each morning soledad brock says a prayer for justice and a prayer for her sons, ronald and angel, and the little girl who will grow up never knowing either of them. five years ago we reported about the unsolved killing of jesus hernandez. a stray bullet killed an innocent bystander a block and a half away. a construction worker shot in the head by a gang. in a terrible coincidence, his 10-year-old niece was fatally shot while playing in the front yard. this year, there was a break in hernandez case.
some 6800 members, and some of the gangs have existed for generations in this area, and the lure of gang life is strong. people are out there, and they have a special order. former gang member richard moya once considered his gang his family. why be in a gang? what is the appeal? it is not the appeal, but it is more like the bond. it is more like the friendship, like the comfort, and something that you don t even get within your own household. he says for every friend you get in the gang, you create far more enemies. some are able to resist the temptation of joining a gang. ronald brock took a different path than moya and angel. after boot camp after september 11th, ronald wanted to defend his country, though his mother worried he might die overseas. i honestly didn t want him to go. before the deployment, ronald came home to visit his girlfriend who he was planning to propose to her.
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