A San Francisco couple whose teenage daughter was allegedly being pimped by a Southern California man tracked him around the state, failing at one attempt to kill him before shooting him to death near Candlestick Park, authorities said Wednesday.
Attorneys for the couple say that they tried everything to rescue their daughter from Calvin Sneed, a 22-year-old alleged gang member from Compton (Los Angeles County), but that they didn’t kill him.
Prosecutors, however, say that when Barry Gilton and his longtime girlfriend, Lupe Mercado, couldn’t get their 17-year-old daughter back through legitimate means, they turned to premeditated murder.
Gilton, 38, and Mercado, 37, appeared in court Wednesday on murder and other charges for allegedly shooting Sneed in the Bayview neighborhood in the early hours of June 4.
The couple have been together since middle school and live with their three other children in San Francisco. Their daughter disappeared some time ago and after searching for her, Gilton and Mercado discovered that she was turning tricks and that Sneed was her pimp, their attorneys said.
“They had gone out to local police agencies, agencies in Southern California – they had even tried talking to national organizations,” said Eric Safire, Gilton’s attorney. “Every place they turned to turned them away.”
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3 comments:
They did the right thing.
Amen
They should have told the police they're daughter was involved in a bank robbery. THAT would have caused all hell to break loose. Rob a bank and hundreds of cops will scour the state, set up roadblocks, point guns at innocent people, lock down a "perimeter", etc. But tell them your daughter is being pimped by a man you can identify, locate, and will testify against? LOL!! They are waaaaay too busy "protecting and serving" to get involved in THAT crime. After all, some rich guy's MONEY is much more important than your child. You can understand that, right??
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