2 Teens Slain in Apparent Drug Heist in Pomona : Crime: Four people also are wounded when a group of men try to rob what police called a crack house.

Two Pomona teen-agers were shot to death execution-style and four others were wounded when a group of armed men attempted to rob them at what was described as a crack house, police said Saturday.

Police arrived at the small house in the 500 block of Washington Avenue about 11:30 p.m. Friday, after receiving “numerous 911 calls about shots fired in the area,” said Sgt. Ken Gillespie of the Pomona Police Department.

“The officers went to the home, and they found four victims in the living room, lying on the floor,” Gillespie said.

Kelley Anderson, 15, and Shauntuanette Lavonne McGowan, 13, were pronounced dead at the scene. A third victim, Darryl Shelby, 28, was left paralyzed after being shot in the back, neck and arm, and 13-year-old Angela Carter also faced possible paralysis after being shot in her left side, Gillespie said.

Shelby and Carter were taken to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center where they were in critical condition Saturday, Gillespie said. Two other victims, Devon Harper, 21, and James Taylor, 31, were shot by the suspects outside the house but were not critically injured.

The gray stucco home in the working-class neighborhood was the site of frequent drug sales, Gillespie said, and some neighbors said the home had lately seen increased police activity. But Gillespie could not say Saturday if any drugs were found at the home after the slayings.

“It appears the suspects came in and intended to rob (the occupants) of their drugs and money,” Gillespie said. “The first four victims were placed on the floor and shot execution-style.”

Shortly after the shootings, Harper and Taylor approached the house, Gillespie said. Both men were shot by the fleeing suspects. The two wounded men then ran to another location a few blocks away and called police.

Gillespie said Anderson apparently lived in the house but was unsure why the other shooting victims were there. It was unclear who lived in the home with Anderson.

“I don’t know if they’re customers, friends or what,” he said.

It was an unusual crime, Gillespie said--not because of the way it was done, but because of the youth of its victims.

“We’ve had dope executions before where children were at the location and the suspects spared them,” he said. “But apparently this wasn’t the case (that) night.”

Police said there were four alleged robbers. No arrests have been made.

Neighbors said there occasionally was drinking and fighting in the alley behind the home, but that for the most part, whatever occurred at the house had little effect on the block of weathered, well-tended homes. No one even knew who lived there.

“We just stay to ourselves,” said Kenya Hoffman, who lives down the the street with her husband and children.

Hoffman said she had seen cars pull up, their passengers trying to buy drugs. “For the last two or three weeks (the police) have been busting them. But they come right back,” she said.

But Friday, another woman heard the sound of gunshots. When she approached the home where the slayings took place she saw the bodies of the teen-agers on the living room floor, and a fleeing suspect jumping over a fence and running into the darkness.

“I’m scared,” said the mother of four, who did not want to be identified. “It might happen to another family.”