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$10,000 reward offered in search for drive-by shooters
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Week in Review
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This week, the council approved offering the rewards.
The shootings occurred about two weeks apart, within a half a mile of each other.
On Aug. 2, Israel Maciel, 23, was gunned down in an alley in the 1300 block of West Baker Street. Four others were injured in the drive-by shooting.
In the second incident on Aug. 17, two men were shot behind an apartment complex in the 2900 block of Mendoza Drive.
Police Chief Steven Staveley told the council Tuesday that he believes the two shootings were not related.
City Councilwoman Katrina Foley, who was the dissenting vote, proposed that rather than offer rewards, the council leave such action to the police chief's discretion when and if he needed it for the investigations of the shootings.
The program would include helping people send letters and packages to service members, and the city could collect donations to send to soldiers.
This week, the City Council denied a request to hold a second public hearing to decide whether the aging but renovated structure should stay on a residential street.
Councilwoman Katrina Foley and the couple requested that the council rehear the issue.
To appease neighbors who consider the mobile home an eyesore, the couple submitted a design to alter the structure to make it look more like a house. The couple, who is deciding what to do next, have 120 days to move the mobile home.
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