July 27, 2005
Murder is not a stranger to the Croetto Ghetto
In the last 3 months, there have been two murders in the Mills Park-Croetto area, affectionately known as the Croetto Ghetto, which brought back memories for me of murders committed in this neighborhood within the last 10-15 years. Although the Police Chief of Rancho Cordova and the city council claim there is no trend or correlation between all these murders occuring under 100 yards of one another, as defined by their unique subset of crime analysis, the rest of the world has a different methodology of assessing and analyzing crime.
April 26th, William Hill was shot to death in the rear parking area of the Sandtrap Lounge off Woodberry Way, formerly called the Keyhole Lounge and site of the 2000 shooting murders of two patrons.
See:
2 killed, 2 hurt in shooting at karaoke bar: No apparent motive noted
By Andy Furillo and Stephen Magagnini
Bee Staff Writers(Published Feb. 15, 2000)SHOOTINGS SPARK FEAR, CONCERNS
February 27, 2000 Section: NEIGHBORS
Page: N1 By Chris Derr Neighbors staff writer
On July 01, Debra Ann Peoples was strangled to death at 10516 Redburn Lane (1)(2), which I believe is at the Grandee Apartments where in 1995, Jim Hill, working as the Grandee Apts manager, was stabbed to death.
See:
TWO KILLED IN INCIDENTS LINKED TO TEENS APARTMENT MANAGER STABBED; GIRL SHOT IN APPARENT ACCIDENT
October 23, 1995
Section: METRO Page: B3
By Janine DeFao Bee Staff Writer
HARD TIMES GONE, BUT A VIOLENT END CAME
October 24, 1995
Section: METRO Page: B1
By Janine DeFao Bee Staff Writer
There are dozens of other stories of violent crimes being committed over the last 10-15 years, just yards from both of these recent murders. There is something wrong in the Croetto Ghetto. Rancho Cordovans should be demanding an accountancy from their civic leaders and city government as to why so much violence has plagued this neighborhood since the early 1980's, and why the new city does so little about it, except cite it as a "Global Village" and suggest that street furniture would cure all of it's ills.
The city council is fully prepared to subsidize another decade of violence with it's ambivalence towards this neighborhood, and Rancho Cordovans north and south of the freeway will have to pay for it, literally, dollar for dollar.
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