RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Murder on Piuma

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Murder On Piuma: Victim is identified as Marcel Ortiz, age 21. Sheriff's are still searching for clues and suspect

NORWALK, CA -

Here is a follow-up regarding the murder that occurred on December 14th over on Piuma Avenue in Norwalk.

The victim is 21-year old Marcel Ortiz, who was fatally shot in a garage according to the Los Angeles County Coroners Office.

Ortiz was with two other men in the 14000 block of Piuma Avenue when a man with a rifle approached and began firing into the open garage just before 7 p.m. striking all three men.

They were taken to a local hospital, where Ortiz died about three hours later. The other victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and their names have not been released.

I reported on this incident last week, and I wanted to keep the community informed about this situation.

Local witnesses to the shooting saw the gunman re-enter a 1990s model, light-colored compact, possibly a Honda right after the shooting happened. (BTW...this is what a 1990's light colored compact/Honda looks like...just to jog your memory).

No new information was available about the suspect or the shooting and if you have any information on the shooting should call Sheriff's Homicide Division at 323-890-5500.

Let's get this criminal off the streets and brought to justice!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Breaking News: Piuma Avenue shooting in Norwalk leaves One dead, and Two others in stable condition in possible "gang" related crime

By: Randy Economy

Breaking News:

(City of Norwalk, CA): A 21-year old Norwalk man was shot and killed last night and two others adults were wounded in what Los Angeles County Sheriff Department officials are calling a possible "gang related" murder.

Sheriff Homicide Detectives are investigating the incident that took place on the 14500 block of Piuma Avenue in Norwalk yesterday, December 14th at around 7 p.m.

According to Detective Rick Pedroza from the LASD, the three victims were gathered at the location just before 7 p.m. when a male adult approached them in an open garage and began shooting a rifle into the garage, striking all three victims.

Local fire department and paramedics arrived on the scene and all three victims were transported to a local area hospital where the 21 year old victim succumbed to his wounds approximately three hours later. The other two victims are in stable condition and are expected to survive.

According to Pedroza, witnesses saw the suspect re-enter a light colored compact car (possibly a 1990's Honda) which fled the scene heading westbound on Piuma and out of view.

The names of the victims have not been released, and the LASD are currently investigating all possible leads. The motive in not yet known, but suspect is may have been "gang related."

If you have any information on this crime, please call Sheriff Homicide Detectives at (323) 890-5500. Updates to follow.

RrE

Meet Randy Economy

You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”