January 1, 2003

Victims: Sharon Burton & Carol Waites

Date: January 1, 2003

Address: 5080 Logan Avenue

Synopsis: Sharon Burton and Carol Waites were driving home from church on New Year’s morning when they stopped at Doctor J’s Liquor Store at 5080 Logan Avenue to buy a firelog. Waites’ seven-year-old nephew and two-year-old granddaughter were also in the car.
While they were parked in front of the store, at least two carloads of gang members pulled up in front of the liquor store and began shooting in the parking lot. It is believed the shooters were aiming at rival gang members loitering in the lot. Burton and Waites were killed, and Waites’ nephew was critically injured but survived.

The Governor of the State of California has offered a $50,0000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspects in this case.

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