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| ivanbee |
Friends mourn slain musician
Details on suspects released
Gina Tenorio, Staff Writer
SAN BERNARDINO - His friends remembered him as a talented disc jockey - the kind whose music compelled clubgoers to leave their seats and move to the rhythm.
David Tafolla, aka DJ Dela Vie, had a style that was hard to duplicate, said his friends.
"He had a talent for cutting and scratching old hip-hop," said Ricardo Ruiz, 33, a longtime friend. "He would tease the records, let the his fingers walk the 'wax' and work every inch of them. David can't be replaced."
On Monday, Ruiz mourned his friend's death. Tafolla, 35, was shot several times just before 2 p.m. Sunday at his home at the Parkwood Knoll Apartments in the 2600 block of East Highland Avenue. He died at the scene.
He had been home with his son, a teenager, when two men confronted him, San Bernardino police said.
Police declined to discuss on Monday how the men got into the home, where Tafolla was shot or where the boy was during the shooting.
Police described their suspects as 20-year-old men. One had braids tight to his head, dark complexion and was tall and thin. He wore a black shirt with no collar with a white tank top underneath and jeans. The second man was described as having a medium complexion and wore jeans and a dark-colored hooded sweat shirt.
They left in a beat-up, black, older-model Lexus with tinted windows, which were difficult to see through, said police Sgt. Mike Desrochers.
"We're not sure of the motive," Desrochers said. "We're still looking into that right now."
No arrests have been made, and investigators were still looking through evidence late Monday collected from what Desrochers called an extensive crime scene.
Meanwhile, local hip-hop lovers awoke to the shocking news that DJ Dela Vie had been killed.
"I thought he was a really cool guy," said Theresa Ruiz, 25, Ricardo Ruiz's sister. "He was focused on his music and his life, and he wasn't afraid to teach others about the music business. (He) had worked on some new music."
The shooting was stunning, she said. She and her siblings knew Tafolla.
Following the news, they contacted each other to try and make sense of the loss, she said.
"I think it's just somebody trying to take somebody else's thing," Ricardo Ruiz said as he tried to understand what could have happened. Thieves have stolen Ruiz's records and DJ equipment in the past, but he's always overcome the losses.
But the loss of a man's life is something hard to overcome. Not only will the gunmen have to live with what they've taken, Ruiz said, they are forcing members of the music community to live with it.
"Police are going to do their work. They are going to clean up and take their tape down. But we'll never be able to listen to him again," he said.
Friend and aspiring rapper David Diaz, 28, said he is working to gather other disc jockeys willing to work on a tribute album to honor Tafolla. The on-site assistant manager at the Parkwood Knoll Apartments, Diaz said he and Tafolla had been collaborating on music.
"The album is in the works," Diaz said. "I am contacting people he worked with in the past now."
Tafolla is among four people who were killed over the span of a week in San Bernardino. On March 27, Genaro Prieto, 32, and Gregson LaGuardia, 50, were shot and killed at 10:08 p.m. during a shootout near a downtown bus station in the 700 block of West Fifth Street.
And the investigation of the death of Martin Vargas, 39, of San Bernardino continues. His body was found in a empty lot about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday on Mill Street, east of Waterman Avenue.
A passer-by spotted Vargas' body and reported it from Arco minimart on the northeast corner of Mill Street and Waterman Avenue. |
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| Clovis86 |
Thanks to the great descriptions, I'm sure it wont be hard to find the culprits.
Since they pretty much described half of LA County...lol |
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