Tyler Tenorio, 16, was stabbed to death on Friday night after he and his friends got into an argument with a group of gang members gathered outside the 7-11 at Chestnut and Laurel streets.
Tyler Tenorio, 16, was stabbed to death on Friday night after he and his friends got into an argument with a group of gang members gathered outside the 7-11 at Chestnut and Laurel streets. Police are still investigating the murder, and no one has been arrested. According to his friends who were with him at the time, the high school junior was hanging out on Laurel Street when a group of gang members outside the 7-11 shouted something to him. Tenorio and his friends then crossed the street, but when he tried to flee the ensuing altercation, he was tripped and stabbed several times in the chest. Despite attempts at resuscitation, he died at the scene.Tyler Tenorio, 16, was stabbed to death on Friday night after he and his friends got into an argument with a group of gang members gathered outside the 7-11 at Chestnut and Laurel streets. Police are still investigating the murder, and no one has been arrested. According to his friends who were with him at the time, the high school junior was hanging out on Laurel Street when a group of gang members outside the 7-11 shouted something to him. Tenorio and his friends then crossed the street, but when he tried to flee the ensuing altercation, he was tripped and stabbed several times in the chest. Despite attempts at resuscitation, he died at the scene.
Police are now combing through video tapes from security cameras both inside and outside the 7-11 in an effort to identify the assailants, described as Latinos aged 18-25. One drawback they face is that an exterior camera in an apartment building facing the shop was out of order at the time of the crime. Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
