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She was shot dead two days after her 21st birthday… now murder of Miss Teen beauty queen linked to others


Just two days before she was killed, former Miss Teen San Diego winner Mimi Barraza had been celebrating her 21st birthday.

Barraza was talking with a group of friends outside one of their homes in the early morning of September 4, 1993, when a white Chevy Astro-Van pulled up and an occupant began shooting, San Diego police said.

Barraza, who was mother to a two-year-old daughter, was struck in the head and killed.

Police said the van sped away from 1600 South 39th Street and was found ‘several hours later that morning’ on the intersection of 19th and G Street in San Diego.

The vehicle had been reported stolen one day earlier. Police found casings from ‘several different caliber weapons’ in the van, as well as at the crime scene.

Now 32 years later police believe the beauty queen’s killing could have been part of a crime spree in which a dozen people were shot.

Police told Daily Mail that around the same time as Barraza’s killing there were several other shootings using the same type of assault rifle.

In one case, a 16-year-old boy was shot dead and nine people were wounded in National City that is about 10 minutes from San Diego.

The perpetrators used ‘the same type of assault rifle’ as in Barraza’s murder.

Police say the suspects in all of the cases were believed to be Hispanic males affiliated with a street gang from Logan Heights.

Benita Perez, Barraza’s mother, told NBC 7 San Diego: ‘Know something, see something, say something. Help us. Help us parents. Help the loved ones that need the justice for our family, for someone that you love.’ 

She also spoke fondly about her daughter saying: ‘Beautiful smile, beautiful personality. Everything that she did, she did with love.’

Perez took to Instagram earlier this month to mark her daughter’s birthday and shared an emotional tribute. 

She posted: ‘Happy Heavenly Birthday to my Beautiful daughter Mimi. May all the Angels sing and dance to celebrate your day. Today we love and miss you so very much. Love, Mamita and family.’ 

San Diego police said that anyone with information about Barraza’s murder or the other cold cases should call their Cold Case Unit at 619-531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477, which is offering up to $1,000 reward to anyone with tips leading to an arrest.

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EPA Chief Visits San Diego, Calls for Urgent Action on Border Sewage Crisis

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin visited San Diego April 22, aiming for collaborative solutions and actions to end the Tijuana River sewage crisis.

The visit “is very important for us to make sure that we aren’t just seeing and hearing firsthand on the ground in Southern California,” Zelding said at the press conference, “but ensuring that the path forward is one of max collaboration and extreme urgency to end a crisis that should have ended a long time ago.”

Zeldin said his counterpart, the Mexican environmental secretary Alicia Bárcena, had conveyed in their meeting the evening of April 21, the willingness of the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to “have a strong collaborative relationship” with the United States, “to finally solve the issue.”

The Tijuana River pollution has been ongoing for decades, but the crisis has worsened in recent years due to Tijuana’s rapidly growing population and the deterioration of its water treatment infrastructure.

Officials said that over the past five years, more than 100 billion gallons of sewage water have been discharged into the Tijuana River, which flows to the U.S. side and enters the Pacific Ocean, causing air odors, health concerns, and beach closures.

Amidst this, the Department of Defense inspector general found that some Navy SEAL candidates became ill while training in sewage-contaminated ocean water in San Diego’s South Bay.

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Feds Dump 125,000 Male Illegal Aliens on San Diego Streets in 9 Months

More than 150,000 illegal aliens were released into San Diego County in less than a year, according to a local official.

San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond has been sounding the alarm about the ongoing invasion of California and the way it is being orchestrated by the Biden-Harris regime.

Supervisor Desmond says federal authorities dumped 155,000 illegals in his county – approximately 125,000 of whom were single, adult males – between September of 2023 and June of 2024.

“Border Patrol was overwhelmed, so what they were doing was just dropping off the healthy adults, age 18 to 35, here in San Diego County. They were predominantly about 80 percent male,” Desmond told immigration news outlet Border Hawk in a recent interview.

“They were just being dropped off at a transit station,” he explained. “Border Patrol was dropping them off and saying, ‘See you later. You’re on your own.’”

Roughly 90 percent of street-released illegals eventually leave San Diego County, bound for other points within the country.

Desmond has frequently visited the primary dumping site, the San Ysidro Transportation Center, located just a mile from the southern border.

New arrivals often ask him where they are before asking how to reach their final destinations, which could be anywhere in the U.S.

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Illegal Aliens Rush Over San Diego Border 12 Hours After Biden Announces New Executive Order on Asylum Seekers

Joe Biden’s America.

Illegal aliens rushed over the US border in San Diego County just 12 hours after Joe Biden announced his new executive order on asylum seekers.

Joe Biden on Tuesday held a fake border security press conference on his new asylum ‘restrictions’ from the East Room.

More than 15 million illegal aliens – mainly military-age males – have invaded the US on Biden’s watch.

Joe Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days in office to destroy the border.

Now he’s acting like the savior with his new ‘asylum restrictions’ – only asylum is STILL AVAILABLE to thousands of illegal aliens every single day released into the US.

According to The New York Post, Biden’s new border ‘crackdown’ will still allow at least 1.8 million illegals to enter the US every year.

According to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, the illegal border crossers he encountered (mainly adult males) on Wednesday in Jacumba, California were from Colombia and Venezuela.

We have no idea who these people are.

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Navy sailor vanishes in San Diego, prompting investigation: ‘Very uncharacteristic’

A US Navy sailor failed to return to his ship in San Diego as his family and lieutenant claim it’s “very uncharacteristic” for him not to report back to duty.

Nija Townsend Jr., 20, was reported missing on Monday when he didn’t report for work on his ship, the USS Germantown, following his weekend leave, the sailor’s mother, Courtney Frazier, told NBC 7.

“The health and welfare of our Sailors is a top priority and we will continue to work with local authorities to help locate this service member,” Cdr. Arlo Abrahamson, Public Affairs Officer for Naval Surface Force, US Pacific Fleet, told the outlet.

The Lake Jackson, Texas native was last seen by ship personnel at around 1 p.m. on Saturday, Navy officials tell the outlet — saying they are now working closely with the San Diego Police Department and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) to locate the vanished seaman.

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HATE HOAX: Man who claimed to be victim of San Diego gay bashing that left him with burns actually was the perpetrator of beating of pregnant woman, police say

It has been revealed that a gay man who claimed to have been beaten and set on fire by a group of homophobes actually sustained his injuries while attacking a pregnant woman.

Scott Rowin, 39, originally alleged that he had been “gay bashed” while walking in his San Diego neighborhood, a story that was parroted by the media and local Antifa networks. CCTV footage, however, showed that he was torched by the expecting mother as she defended herself from his violent actions, which landed her in the hospital with injuries.

According to the San Diego Police Department, the incident took place on June 12 on the 900 block of 6th Avenue around 10:40 pm. Officers responded to numerous 911 calls reporting a man beating up a pregnant woman, however when they arrived, he had already fled the scene, ABC 10 reported.

Just under two hours later, a man called 911 reporting that he had been set on fire, and it was quickly determined that he was the suspect wanted for the aforementioned beating, and that she had burned him.

In the days since the attack, investigators have tracked down CCTV footage revealing the “initial physical assault by the man on the pregnant woman and the subsequent use of fire as a weapon by the pregnant woman on the man.” The man was identified as Rowin.

“This is a complex investigation, and detectives are examining all aspects and allegations,” the SDPD said. 

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Debate Ensues After Mysterious Lights Appear Over San Diego

Residents across San Diego on Monday night reported mysterious lights in the night sky. The unidentifiable lights were spotted south of downtown San Diego.

A flood of Twitter users posted pictures and videos of “weird lights” above San Diego. The bizarre footage showed three to six glowing balls of fire hovering in the night sky.

Residents across San Diego, parts of Mexico, and even San Clemente reported seeing fireballs over the ocean.

It was reported by local news ABC7 that “there weren’t any commercial or military aircraft on the radar in the area” during the time the fireballs left many San Diegans scratching their heads.

The sight was so bizarre that Google searches across the region for “UFO” spiked last night as some thought Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman’s alien invasion was underway.

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Teachers will be Sent to San Diego Convention Center to Provide In-Person Learning For Migrants While Schools in Same County Remain Closed

This is Joe Biden’s America.

Illegal aliens come first and Americans are second class citizens.

California – According to San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, the San Diego County Board of Education will be sending teachers for in-person learning for the illegal alien migrant children at the convention center.

The illegal aliens will be learning in person while many schools in San Diego County are still closed for in-person learning.

More than 500 unaccompanied minor migrants, most of whom are from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, were flown from Texas to San Diego over the weekend to take shelter at the San Diego Convention Center.

The first group of illegal aliens arrived on Saturday night after flying from Texas to San Diego airport.

They were then taken by buses to their temporary shelter.

The second group of 250 migrants arrived to San Diego on Monday, according to Fox 5.

The unaccompanied migrants will be provided “vital services” such as medical care, food, a place to sleep and showers.

The illegal alien children aged 13-17 will also be in-person learning while American children are forced to attend Zoom classes and fall behind.

It gets worse.

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San Diego City Councilmember Threatens Residents, Demands Sheriff Arrest “People Who Aren’t Wearing Masks” and “Who Aren’t Social Distancing”

San Diego City Councilmember Jennifer Campbell on Tuesday threatened Ocean Beach residents: Follow the authoritarian Covid rules… or else!

“Behave or you’re gonna be in big trouble!” the hysterical Democrat tyrant said during a presser.

Jennifer Campbell  screamed at residents on Tuesday and told them if they didn’t wear masks and social distance, more people were going to die.

“This is the worst virus in the history of medicine!” the retired physician screamed.

To be clear, a grand total of 602 people in San Diego County out of a population of approximately 3.5 million have died from Covid-19 since March.

Campbell then demanded that the County Sheriff arrest people who aren’t wearing masks and who aren’t social distancing.

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