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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
--Teenagers and weapons made a dangerous mix this weekend in Sacramento
County, leaving two people dead in separate incidents in which the
suspects are juveniles. In the first, 17 year old Cristina McDonald of
Sacramento suffered a mortal head wound Saturday evening at a teen hangout
in what authorities said apparently was an accidental shooting. Her organs
were removed for donation Sunday.
Also Saturday night, a 50 year old Rancho Cordova apartment complex
manager was stabbed to death after telling four young men, with whom he
previously had problems, to leave the complex, said Sacramento County
sheriff's spokesman Jim Cooper.
The man died at 1:37 a.m. Sunday at UC Davis Medical Center, where
he was taken after the 9:15 p.m. stabbing at the Grandee
Apartments in the 10500 block of Folsom Boulevard. His name was not
released pending notification of relatives.
Cooper said the complex has had numerous problems with drug sales,
gangs and violence. But the manager "was really concerned. He went out and
patrolled that complex. He knew who was who, who belonged there and who
didn't," said Cooper, a gang detective who had met the manager on previous
calls.
On Saturday night, the manager came across four young men who he
previously had told to stay off the premises and who were going to visit a
complex resident who is affiliated with a local gang, Cooper said.
When the manager told them to leave, they attacked him and one
stabbed him repeatedly in the abdomen and back, Cooper said. The manager
stumbled back to his apartment, where his 9 year old son called 911.
Two male juveniles under 16 were arrested and booked into Juvenile
Hall on murder charges. The other two were questioned, but detectives have
forwarded their report to the District Attorney's Office for a decision on
charges because "the extent of their involvement is questionable," Cooper
said.
In the earlier shooting, Cooper said, McDonald was one of about
eight teens who had gone to hang out Saturday at "The Pit," basically a
large hole in the ground near Interstate 5 and Lambert Road. Many in the
group were drinking and some were firing guns into the air when McDonald
was struck about 7 p.m., he said.
McDonald was in a vehicle when she was shot, and was moved from
that vehicle to another car and driven to Kaiser South Hospital, he said.
By Sunday afternoon, detectives had found and interviewed everyone
present at the shooting, including the male juvenile who fired the gun,
Cooper said. While the shooting appears to have been accidental, the case
is being forwarded to the District Attorney's Office for review.
Also Sunday afternoon, McDonald's parents announced to reporters
their decision to donate their only child's organs, which they said their
daughter would have been happy about.
"She had a wild side, but she was a good kid," Harold McDonald said
of his daughter.
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