This is becoming more and more common at AA meetings.Since Drug Courts started mandating AA/NA meetings over 20 years ago,and these courts have exploded across this country.So has the reporting of violence in relation to these meetings. Men,women and children have been traumatized for decades by 13 steppers,felons, financial and sexual predators that were their fellow members.
Is it going to take a tragedy in Holly Hill Florida for the City to protect children and families from court mandated,government sponsored 12 step meetings located in their playgrounds to do something? There has been cries for help from locals to the police and commissioners after threats of violence.Yet NOTHING. Liz Towsley Patton stated about the appearance of city officials looking like they are in bed with someone,she has a point. The City does looks like they are in bed with many folks.Where does it end? When will it end?
Fugitive sought for shooting of pregnant woman in Baldwin Park
BALDWIN PARK – Police Thursday sought the public’s help in tracking down a Baldwin Park man who accused of shooting a pregnant woman in the head after getting into a fight with her husband at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Omar Martinez, 19, is wanted for attempted murder, Baldwin Park police Lt. David Reynoso said. He’s believed to be hiding in the West Covina or Los Angeles areas.
Martinez was attending a court-ordered AA meeting about 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at a church at Los Angeles Street and Stewart Avenue when he got into a fight with another man in his 20s who was attending the meeting, police said.
The fight was broken up and the men separated and left, Reynoso said.
“The intended victim left the meeting and entered a vehicle driven by his pregnant wife,” Baldwin Park police said in a written statement. “Suspect
Martinez followed the intended victim and shot twice at the vehicle as it left.”
The woman driving the car was struck in the back of the head, Reynoso said. She was initially hospitalized in critical condition, however she’s since been updated to stable condition.
Police have learned the woman was several weeks into a pregnancy at the time she was shot, and has since miscarried.
“At this time, we haven’t been able to determine if the miscarriage is related to the crime,” Reynoso said.
Martinez fled after the shooting and hasn’t been seen since, Reynoso said.
He was immediately identified as the shooter by witnesses who knew him
from the AA group, and he left his AA membership card behind when he fled the scene, the lieutenant said.
http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_19356587
YOUTUBE VIDEO of AA Meeting Shooting At Baldwin Park-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoQdP0QfH3c&w=420&h=315
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The Pacific Region of Alcoholics Anonymous where Baldwin Park Resides in Los Angeles county has had other problems than the shooting of a pregnant woman by a court ordered AA attendee in the back of the head while she was driving her husband from the meeting at the First Presbyterian Church. This shooting happened in Area 05 of Alcoholics Anonymous.
In 2006, Scott Gordon Reynolds fatally shot and killed his sponsor Uriel Noriega in the parking lot of the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Long Beach California for telling the members he was gay. This murder happened in Alcoholics Anonymous Area 05 and Scott Gordon Reynolds has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for his crime:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-11-07-3603151677_x.htm
The problems of violence in Churches is being tracked. One such website which can help with the statistics is:
http://www.carlchinn.com/Church_Crime_History.html