Jose Ramos, a member of the Cerritos College track and field team, was stabbed at a birthday party and later pronounced dead at a Pico Rivera hospital early Sunday morning.
Ramos, also known as “Polar Bear” by friends and teammates, took part in a fight between 10 to 15 gang members and party goers who refused the gang members entry which resulted in his death and shots being fired.
He is the only reported casualty in the first homicide of 2011 for the 8 mile town of Pico Rivera according to the Los Angeles Times Homicide Report.
“Gangsters try to have their way,” Larry Hernandez, a friend of the college student said.
Hernandez was also at the party that was being held for two teenage girls when the fight broke out.
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