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SANTA ANA : 2 Teens Charged With Gang Murder

By HENRY CHU
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Murder charges were filed Tuesday against two youths in connection with the Jan. 24 gang shoot-out at Alona Park that left one person dead and two wounded.

One defendant, a 16-year-old from Santa Ana, was arrested Tuesday after police served a search warrant at his home, Police Lt. Robert Helton said.

The other youth, a 17-year-old from Tustin, was already in custody after an incident over the weekend involving a stolen vehicle, Helton said.

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No arraignment date has been set.

Both are believed to be members of a gang that participated in the Alona Park shooting, Helton said. A 17-year-old rival gang member was killed.

Helton said authorities would seek to try the two youths as adults.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

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