Pasadena Offers $50,000 for Clues in Slaying

To stem the gang violence that has gripped Northwest Pasadena, city officials are offering up to $50,000 in rewards for information in the shooting death of a 17-year-old girl.

Chanette Daniels of Altadena, shot to death Jan. 30, was a victim of what police say is an escalating gang feud that has caused the city’s murder rate to jump to four in the first month of 1991. Pasadena had 13 murders in all of 1990.

The Board of Directors on Tuesday approved spending $50,000 at the rate of $10,000 for each person who provides information leading to the arrest and conviction of Daniels’ killers.

Two suspects are in Pasadena City Jail, charged in connection with the death of Anthony Dwayne Shaw, 25, also of Altadena. Shaw was shot to death Jan. 22 as he drove on the Foothill Freeway near San Gabriel Boulevard.

Three other people were injured in the two shootings. In addition, police reported three drive-by shootings Monday night. Two people were injured in those incidents, and three suspects are in custody, police said.

City Director Rick Cole, who proposed the reward, said he was concerned that Daniels might not have been provided adequate police protection after she testified last year in a gang-related murder trial.

Police said she was offered protection and the chance to relocate outside Pasadena but turned it down. They said there is no information to link her death to the testimony.