Harbor Gateway Photo Documentary, L.A. Sunday Times

These photos are republished from the L.A. Times Newspaper. Though it's distrubing to see so much violence within our communities, I am perversely glad that the issue is finally getting more attention.

Harbor Gateway Photo Documentary
L.A. Sunday Times March 4, 2007




High fences can be found throughout the neighborhood in Harbor Gateway where the 204th Street gang stands accused of terrorizing many area residents. A gang crackdown is aimed at getting some control back in the neighborhood.
(Rick Loomis / LAT)
Feb 14, 2007







ALTERED LIVES: Dunya Wagoner holds husband Carl’s hand at a medical facility on Valentine’s Day. He is bedridden after losing a leg in a Harbor Gateway shooting last August. He also lost his auto-shop business.
(Rick Loomis / LAT)
Feb 14, 2007






SHRINE: Candles mark where 14-year-old Cheryl Green, an African American, was slain near her Harbor Gateway home. Two members of the predominantly Latino 204th Street gang have been charged in her killing.
(Rick Loomis / LAT)
Feb 8, 2007







REMEMBRANCE FOR A YOUNG VICTIM: Shana Miller, 22, lights candles where her cousin Cheryl Green was killed. Cheryl’s mother, Charlene Lovett, struggles with her loss. “My daughter’s dead and I don’t know why,” Lovett says. “That’s the question I would like answered: Why?”
(Rick Loomis / LAT)
Feb 8, 2007






Vanessa Cary, 18, wears a jacket memorializing her younger sister, Cheryl Green, who was murdered on the sidewalk in Harbor Gateway.
(Rick Loomis / LAT)
Feb 8, 2007







Cheryl Green's first name is dripped onto the sidewalk in candle wax.
(Rick Loomis / LAT)
Feb 8, 2007








Charlene Lovett, whose daughter was Cheryl Green, marches with others as they gather at a peace rally held in Inglewood.
(Rick Loomis / LAT)
Feb 10, 2007