DA: After cops killed son, mother uses $5 million settlement to supply guns for teen gang

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Sure. What could make more sense?

Authorities say a mother bought guns that were used in a deadly shooting with money from a multi-million dollar settlement after Fresno police killed her son.

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DA: After cops killed son, mother uses $5 million settlement to supply guns for teen gang
FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) — Fourteen people, including two young teenagers, have now been charged following an investigation into the murder of a Malaga,

DA: After cops killed son, mother uses $5 million settlement to supply guns for teen gang

by SHELBY BRACHO | KMPH Staff Tuesday, October 12th 2021

FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) — Fourteen people, including two young teenagers, have now been charged following an investigation into the murder of a Malaga, Calif. man.

Christina Lopez, 42, of Madera, Calif. is one of the 14 people arrested in the death of Javier Fernandez.

She's facing felony charges of conspiracy to provide firearms to a minor for the benefit of a street gang, child endangerment, and conspiracy to provide a firearm to a gang member.

But it's how prosecutors say she funded the crime that has many outraged.

We have mothers who have money who are buying guns and supplying them to their children for criminal activity," said Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp.

Smittcamp says Lopez bought guns, used in the killing, with money from a multi-million dollar settlement after Fresno police killed her son.

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[ColinC]

1. She took one gang's money and gave it to another.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Well, the RW media will have a foaming-at-the-mouth good time with this story. Nt

[ZonkerHarris]

3. She should have bought new guns as gifts for the kids. Black market is not the right way to empower

America's youth.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Oh, dear lord.

Remind me again of how guns make us safer?

[exboyfil]

5. Taking lessons from Mary Thompson

A woman who served on an anti-gang task force actually organized a gang and sent two members to commit Eugene’s first gang murder, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Mary L. Thompson, 41, of Eugene, is being tried in Lane County Circuit Court for aggravated murder, hindering prosecution and burglary in the Oct. 3, 1994, slaying of Aaron Iturra, 18.

In his opening statement, Assistant District Attorney Steve Skelton said Thompson told police she “went berserk” with anger after learning Iturra told detectives he saw her son with a knife during a fight at a store.

Intent on keeping her son, Beau Flynn, then 16, from going back to a state juvenile detention center, Thompson organized the 74 Hoover Crips. She persuaded two teenagers to take a stolen .38-caliber revolver to Iturra’s home to kill him, Skelton told jurors.



https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/jun/14/mom-behind-gang-killing-prosecutor-says-woman/