Arrests Made In Alameda Teen Slaying
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ALAMEDA — Three juveniles were in custody and a number of search warrants executed throughout Oakland early Tuesday in a major break in the case of the Halloween evening slaying of a 15-year-old girl in an Alameda park.
Alameda Lt. Art Fuentes would not identify any of the three as the actual shooter, but was confident they were part of the gang that confronted the girl and her friends at Upper Washington Park.
“We are confident that three that we have arrested were among the group who were at the park that night and were involved in this tragedy,” he told the Oakland Tribune.
An afternoon press conference was scheduled to release more details.
Ichinkhorloo Bayarsaikhan, a junior at Alameda High School, was gunned down shortly after 10 p.m. on Halloween night in the playground area of Washington Park, located at 799 Central Ave.
Police believe an attempted robbery led to the shooting, which may have been carried out by five to six Asian males who were not acquainted with Bayarsaikhan or a group of 10 friends she was with at the park, according to Fuentes.
A police officer issuing a citation to a driver near the park was confronted by a hysteric teenage girl who said her friend had been shot.
“There was no physical confrontation between the assailants and the victim nor the witnesses other than the gunshot,” he said. “The victim and the witnesses took cover and they for whatever reason left their cover. That’s when the second round of gunfire occurred and that’s when the victim was hit.”
Officers quickly converged on the park and found the 15-year-old girl in the playground area suffering from at least one gunshot wound. She was rushed to Highland Hospital in Oakland where she was pronounced dead.
Police believe the teens got away on foot, then hopped on an AC Transit bus to Oakland before boarding BART. The 12th Street station was shut down for about an hour, but the search turned up empty.
“Everybody is quite shocked at this tragedy,” Fuentes said. “We have committed our full resources to this investigation.”
The Police Department had released two sketches of the suspected shooter and went around the clock with the investigation of the island community’s first murder of the year.
At an emotional news conference Sunday, Uranchimeg Khishigdori, who among with her husband. Bayarsaikhan, brought her family to America from Mongolia just over 3 years ago in search of a better life, wrestled with her emotions and wondered how her daughter could possibly have been murdered while playing with her friends in a quiet Alameda park.
“Iko was my only daughter,” Uranchimeg said. “She was the sweetest child. She always had a smile on her face, happiness surrounded her…She loved life. She shared her dreams with me.”
Uranchimeg said her daughter saw the long hours her immigrant parents worked to provide a good life for their children and promised to someday help.
“She would tell me that someday soon, her father and I would not have to work so hard and long,” the grieving mother said. “She said her goal when she graduated from school was to take care of us, her parents… She used say ‘I will make you happy the rest of your life, dad and mom.’
“But I lost my sweetest daughter. The killer took all her dreams, her wonderful dreams…I wish every family to always stay happy, united and healthy…Never have to feel or go through what I feel now…Never have to lose any of their children.”
May God console her family. And may the perps rot in hell.
Video clips here:
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_310144752.html
From the articles, this was a sweet girl from a hard working family, and she was with a group of friends when this happened. The boys didn’t have a car - so they murdered an innocent victim and ‘fled’ by bus.
May her family feel Heavenly comfort and strength - and may those boys pay severely for their crime.