EAST LA - Dave Munoz is proud of his East Los Angeles neighborhood.
“This is where they caught him,” the 20-year-old college student said Friday. “They caught him on my street. Richard Ramirez. My neighbors caught him.”
Hubbard Street is where Richard “The Night Stalker” Ramirez’s murderous rampage finally came to an end, at the hands of neighbors who beat and captured him as he tried to steal two cars and assaulted a woman.
The capture and arrest of Ramirez turned Hubbard Street into a street of "heroes." Many of the people who lived on the block at the time are no longer around. But Munoz can point across the street to the humble, stucco home of Jose Burgoin, an 82-year-old Mexican immigrant who played a key role on that last day of August in 1985.
After Ramirez failed at carjacking the car of his next-door neighbor -- Faustino Pinon’s daughter, the killer ran across the street and tried to steal the car of another neighbor. Hearing her screams for help, Burgoin sprinted across the street and confronted Ramirez.
“I ran to defend her and he told me, ‘Don’t get closer or I’ll shoot you.’ (Read the rest)
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CityWatch
Vol 11 Issue 47
Pub: June 11, 2013
