my grandma live in this area
South Vermont Avenue: L.A. County's 'death alley' - The Homicide Report - Los Angeles Times
detective calls it “death alley.” The two miles of South Vermont Avenue that stretch north from Imperial Highway are home to churches, liquor stores, mortuaries and one of the highest rates of homicide in L.A. County.
Sixty people have been killed along this corridor since 2007, most shot to death.
The violence, which seems never-ending, landed at Angela Hawkins’ doorstep.
When gunshots sprayed from a passing car in October, panicked neighbors fled through the hallways of her apartment complex on West 92nd Street.
Hawkins opened her door to find
Joe Anthony Ordaz on the floor, saying he’d been hit. People surrounded him, telling him he would be OK.
She recognized him. Their young children played together. Ordaz, 24, would die before sunrise.
Homicides in ‘death alley’
Since 2007, 61 people have been killed on a two-mile stretch on or near South Vermont Avenue between Manchester Avenue and Imperial Highway. The area is the border of the Westmont and Vermont Vista neighborhoods.
Early last year, Hawkins, 31, moved out of her mother’s home and into this unincorporated community, known as
Westmont, lured by a cheap deposit.
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