Buena Park : 1 Youth Dead, 1 Injured in a Street Gang Fight

One youth was stabbed to death and another seriously injured during a street fight between a local gang and a rival one from the Compton-Paramount area, a police spokesman said Saturday.

Police spokesman Terry Branum said the street fight erupted shortly after 10:30 p.m. Friday near Knott’s Berry Farm.

Branum said about 10 members of Los Coyotes, a Buena Park youth gang, were gathered in an alley just south of the amusement park when a group from the Segundo gang drove by. He said words were exchanged, and the members of the Segundo gang, riding in two cars, got out.

He said the fight, involving perhaps 20 youths, spilled onto Western Avenue near Fillmore Street.

Jesus Felipe Loza, 19, of Buena Park, was stabbed in the chest and died shortly after midnight at Humana Hospital-West in Anaheim, Branum said. Loza apparently was a member of the Segundo gang, although he lived in Buena Park.

Eduardo Jaurequi, 18, of Compton, also a member of the Segundo gang, suffered stab wounds to his lower back, facial cuts, and bruises, Branum said. He was in fair condition Saturday at Buena Park Community Hospital.

Branum said most of the youths had fled by the time police arrived. Loza was found lying on the street and Jaurequi was in the front seat of a pickup truck.

No one was arrested, but the investigation was continuing, he said.