Woman Held in Slaying at Magic Mountain
Sheriff’s investigators arrested a Los Angeles woman in connection with the slaying of a 15-year-old Fontana boy in the Six Flags Magic Mountain parking lot in April.
The 21-year-old woman, Jamika Cansan, allegedly supplied the weapon used in the shooting, in which one boy died and two other people were wounded, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies.
Daniel Vega was shot to death and his 14-year-old cousin and a 37-year-old female bystander were injured. Just before the shooting, a melee between members of an African American gang and a group of Latino students started outside the theme park’s entrance, deputies said. One of the students and a gang member argued and came to blows.
About 15 minutes later, as hundreds poured out of the gates and into the parking lots when the park closed, a gunman fired into the crowd, killing Vega.
Cansan was arrested Wednesday outside a Los Angeles residence. She being held without bail at Twin Towers jail on suspicion of murder.
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