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Police Seek Man in Park Shooting That Killed 1, Hurt 2

By HENRY CHU
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TIMES STAFF WRITER
SANTA ANA — 

Police are looking for a 20-year-old Santa Ana man in connection with the Jan. 24 gang shoot-out at Alona Park that left one person dead and two others wounded.

Hugo Albert Chavez of Santa Ana is wanted in connection with the shoot-out, in which two rival gangs squared off with each other, police spokeswoman Maureen Haacker said. Police, carrying an arrest warrant, went to Chavez’s home on Nottingham Avenue last month, but family members said he was not there.

A semiautomatic handgun was recovered from the home after a separate search warrant was served, Haacker said.

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Chavez is believed to be a member of the Highland Street gang, Haacker said. A 17-year-old youth, who police say belonged to the same gang, was killed in the shoot-out.

Eleven people have already been arrested in connection with the incident, Haacker said.

Anyone with information should call the Santa Ana Police Gang Unit at (714) 647-5165 during the day or (714) 843-4801 after 5 p.m.

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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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