In early March of this year three shootings deaths occurred in less than 11 hours time. This violent weekend in the Twin Cities saw two teenagers gunned down in a drive-by shooting and a woman shot to death through the door and window of her home right in front of her children.

Another episode took place on a Saturday evening of the same weekend where a 14 year old Minneapolis boy was shot. Police believe this shooting could be linked to another shooting of an 18 year old boy later that day. These drive-by shootings that killed Hispanic teenagers, occurred within four hours and 4 miles of each other. So far no one has been arrested. The motives in the drive-by cases are uncertain, but authorities in Richfield and Minneapolis said they are looking into possible gang ties, including to the Vatos Locos gang.

Recently a St. Paul man was arrested on April 4th for his alleged role in a drive-by shooting on Interstate 94 in Brooklyn Center that killed a Fridley man. Isai Flores, also known as “Easy E,” was charged with aiding and abetting, attempted second-degree murder and aiding and abetting a drive-by shooting in a Dec. 10, 2006 drive-by shooting.

Authorities believed that Flores fled to Mexico in early 2007 but returned to the Twin Cities last month. The authorities are also charging Flores with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. The Minnesota Fugitive Task Force arrested Flores without incident at a St. Paul apartment complex.