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A children runs barefoot in the rain, with shoes in hand, past trash that piles weekly at the end of the court on 43rd Ave after crossing the walkway over highway 99 after school on Wednesday afternoon in south Sacramento, January 22, 2013. -
Sacramento Sheriff cars patrol 43rd Ave on Thursday afternoon in south Sacramento, January 24, 2013. -
Sacramento Sheriff Josh Wheeler talks with a resident on 46th Ave on Thursday afternoon in south Sacramento, January 24, 2013. -
Sacramento Sheriff Sgt. Ray Duncan and office Josh Wheeler look over an identification on Martin Luther Kings Blvd and 46th Ave on Thursday afternoon in south Sacramento, January 24, 2013. -
Joseph White, 55, recently moved to the neighborhood from Rancho Cordova. He hears gunshots every night. He and his wife are hoping to buy a home in the next 24 months. January 17, 2013. -
Joseph White, 55, recently moved to the neighborhood from Rancho Cordova. He hears gunshots every night. He and his wife are hoping to buy a home in the next 24 months. January 17, 2013. -
Micah Giovanni-Kaitapu, 35, with two sets of twins is fearful of all of the gunplay in the neighborhood. She refuses to let the gun culture alter her lifestyle, she says, and takes public transportation, walks in the neighborhood to the store, but not after dark. January 17, 2013. -
A donation jar for Anthony Navarro sits on the counter at the Jiffy Mart on Martin Luther King Blvd, near 46th Ave, on Thursday afternoon in south Sacramento, January 24, 2013. Navarro was walking on 39th Street south of Broadway in Oak Park when an unknown shooter fired from a passing vehicle, according to Sacramento police. Navarro was hit several times and died later at a hospital. -
Rochelle Ortega wears a shirt with an image of her herself and son Anthony Navarro in his memory outside her home in the Lemon Hill neighborhood in south Sacramento on Friday afternoon. On January 24, 2013, Anthony Navarro was walking on 39th Street south of Broadway in Oak Park when an unknown shooter fired from a passing vehicle, according to Sacramento police. Navarro was hit several times and died later at a hospital. -
Rochelle Ortega embraces her son Joshua Fuentes outside their home in the Lemon Hill neighborhood in south Sacramento on Friday afternoon. On January 24, 2013, Anthony Navarro was walking on 39th Street south of Broadway in Oak Park when an unknown shooter fired from a passing vehicle, according to Sacramento police. Navarro was hit several times and died later at a hospital. -
Friends of Anthony Navarro embrace Rochelle Ortega Monday afternoon to pay respect for her son Anthony Navarro at the Sierra View Funeral Chapel in Carmichael. Anthony Navarro was shot several times at 39th Street south of Broadway in Oak Park in a drive by shooting, according to Sacramento police. Navarro died later at a hospital. -
Rochelle Ortega looks into the coffin while holding her son, Anthony Navarro's hand at the Sierra View Funeral Chapel in Carmichael of Monday afternoon. Anthony Navarro was shot several times at 39th Street south of Broadway in Oak Park in a drive by shooting, according to Sacramento police. Navarro died later at a hospital. -
Friends of Anthony Navarro embrace one another as they pay respects near his coffin at the Sierra View Funeral Chapel in Carmichael of Monday afternoon. Anthony Navarro was shot several times at 39th Street south of Broadway in Oak Park in a drive by shooting, according to Sacramento police. Navarro died later at a hospital. -
Anthony Navarro's brother's Adam Castillo (white shirt) and Joshua Fuentes (rt) are joined by friend Johnathen Beasley (center) as they pay respects to Anthony Navarro near his coffin at the Sierra View Funeral Chapel in Carmichael of Monday afternoon. Anthony Navarro was shot several times at 39th Street south of Broadway in Oak Park in a drive by shooting, according to Sacramento police. Navarro died later at a hospital. -
Rochelle Ortega embraces Carl Gross at the front entrance to the Sierra View Funeral Chapel in Carmichael on Monday afternoon. Gross and Navarro were childhood friends until Anthony's family relocated six years ago. Anthony Navarro was shot several times at 39th Street south of Broadway in Oak Park in a drive by shooting, according to Sacramento police. Navarro died later at a hospital. -
Friends of Anthony Navarro payed respect at the Sierra View Funeral Chapel in Carmichael of Monday afternoon. Anthony Navarro was shot several times at 39th Street south of Broadway in Oak Park in a drive by shooting, according to Sacramento police. Navarro died later at a hospital. -
A pit bull looks over at Sacramento Sheriff officer Elizabeth as the officers responded to a domestic dispute on Clover Glen Way on Thursday afternoon in south Sacramento, January 24, 2013. -
Sacramento Sheriff Josh Wheeler observes while a parent lectures her son on Thursday afternoon off Clover Manor Way in south Sacramento, January 24, 2013. The teen and other neighborhood kids were caught trespassing in an empty duplex. -
Sheriff's officers patrol past 3721 41st Ave, on Thursday afternoon in south Sacramento, January 24, 2013. The vacant home is often used as a prostitution stop and drug hangout. -
Sacramento Sheriff Sgt. Ray Duncan and office Josh Wheeler (rt) patrol the backyard of 3721 41st Ave, on Thursday afternoon in south Sacramento, January 24, 2013. The vacant home is often used as a prostitution stop and drug hangout. -
Sacramento Sheriff officers respond to a call of squatters at a vacant duplex on Clover Manor Way in south Sacramento, on Thursday January 24, 2013. -
Jose Avila and his children Vivian and Victoria Avila pick up trash on the walkway crossing highway 99 onto 43rd Ave after school on Wednesday afternoon in south Sacramento, January 30, 2013. The families only compensation for their work is helping create a clean and friendlier atmosphere in the neighborhood. -
Many students at Pacific Elementry School feel safer at the school than they do in their own neighborhood. Children walk past the mural painted by local artist Markos Egure (cq), titled "Pacific Pumas" 2007 in the courtyard at Pacific Elementary School after class let out on Wednesday afternoon. The school has been tagged many times, but the mural, who's message a character education movement, has always been left untouched. January 24, 2013. -
Many students at Pacific Elementry School feel safer at the school than they do in their own neighborhood. Emigdio Perez and his family relocated from their Lemon Hill neighborhood, his father stated "There is a shooting every three days." Jacquelline Mendoza, doodles as she waits for her mother at the base of the flagpole in front of Pacific Elementary school after class let out on Wednesday afternoon in Sacramento, January 24, 2013.
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