A running feud – and possible gang conflicts – may have led to the shooting of a Mount Vernon police officer Thursday night.
Much of the problem has centered on a home in North Laventure Road. Rosa Mejia, 60, has rented the house for a year. She says there have been at least four drive by shootings.
Someone shot her 19-year-old grandson, Kyler Vallejo Thursday evening, just down the street from her home. She says the people arrested in connection with the police officer’s shooting approached her grandson as he was changing a flat tire on Laventure Road and opened fire.
That was the police call that led to an officer being shot by the same group of people, according to Mejia.
She says they’re gang members who have a conflict with some of her nine children. However, police did not arrest them after the rash of shootings at her home.
“I’m scared,” Mejia said. “Not only for Kyler, but for that police officer too, because he’s trying to investigate something that is going on. I told these police officers a long time ago. I gave them information, but they never did anything about it.”
KING 5 could not immediately confirm with police Mejia’s story about the shootings at her home.
She says her grandson was released from the hospital Friday morning with a bullet wound to the neck and is in hiding.
