Odds

[abbey1227]

Bonita
‘What Are The Odds?': Bonita Mother Mourns Second Daughter Lost to Gun Violence in 2 Years
Diana Del Valle speaks out about ending gun violence. Asks for help finding the person who killed her second daughter in National City over the weekend.
Published November 1, 2022 • Updated on November 1, 2022 at 8:47 pm


“What are the odds of this?” the grieving mother wondered aloud to NBC 7’s Rory Devine.

The mother of a 16-year-old shot and killed in National City is asking for help finding her daughter’s killer. As unbelievable as it may seem, this is the second daughter she has lost to gun violence in a little over two years.

“What are the odds?” said Diana Del Valle. “It’s unbelievable that a mother or any parent could ever experience what I’m experiencing. I’m broken inside. I don’t know how I’m going to get through this.”

Her daughter, 16-year-old Gillian Aguilar, a student at Bonita Vista High School, was killed around 11:30 p.m. Friday night in a shooting that also took the life of 18-year-old Edwin Barrera. National City police responded to calls of shots fired on East 17th Street in National City and found two people lying on the street. A Halloween party had just broken up.

Police are still investigating what led up to the incident, which took place just after the party broke up, NBC 7’s Rory Devine reports

Del Valle said her daughter was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Just over two years ago, in July 2020, Gillian’s older sister, 19-year-old Janessa, was shot and killed and Gillian, who was 13-years-old at the time, was attacked. It happened when the two girls left their Bonita apartment where they lived with their mother to confront internet bullies who were body-shaming Gillian, according to Del Valle.

"I do know that this is the second time I have lost a daughter through gun violence so I'm taking it very personal," Del Valle said. "I feel that this person needs to be caught, and he needs to be taken out of the streets to prevent another person, another child like my daughter, like, you know, this, like the young man that was shot, and for more crime to, you know, stop the crime ... another tragedy from happening again."

Del Valle spoke with NBC 7 because she said she wants to stop gun violence.

"It would mean a lot to me," Del Valle said regarding someone coming forward with information about her daughter's death.

She's also cautioning parents and children to be more aware. After losing Janessa, she did everything she could to protect Gillian. She drove Gillian to a party that Friday night where she knew everyone who was attending. For some reason, she said, Gillian left the party with her girlfriends and took an Uber to the party in National City.

Del Valle said she find out about the shooting because she was monitoring Gillian’s social media and saw a message someone had written about Gillian being shot. She was able to rush to the hospital and be there “when she took her last breath," she said.

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[Prometheus]

[merh]

Sorry.
I got distracted.
I am, according to Google, 10 minutes from 17th st.

The problem is there are a few gangs in National city.

Probation was going to rent space in the area, gateway center, but they realized it would make gang members cross into one another's space so they changed their minds.

So while mom knew where the girl was going, in typical teen behavior, the girl went to another place.

That was a plot point in Terrifier 2.
The girl promised mom she wasn't going to drink, so mom was OK she was going to place X with friends, but girl went to Party Place with 1 friend (while the other was being murdered by Art the clown)

[abbey1227]

Nov 4, 2022 13:17:19 GMT merh said:

Sorry.
I got distracted.
I am, according to Google, 10 minutes from 17th st.

The problem is there are a few gangs in National city.

Probation was going to rent space in the area, gateway center, but they realized it would make gang members cross into one another's space so they changed their minds.

So while mom knew where the girl was going, in typical teen behavior, the girl went to another place.

That was a plot point in Terrifier 2.
The girl promised mom she wasn't going to drink, so mom was OK she was going to place X with friends, but girl went to Party Place with 1 friend (while the other was being murdered by Art the clown)

yeah, that is a problem.........you'd figure someone would do something about that.

Darn kids. When will they ever learn? 

[Prometheus]

Nov 4, 2022 13:33:56 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 4, 2022 13:17:19 GMT merh said:

Sorry.
I got distracted.
I am, according to Google, 10 minutes from 17th st.

The problem is there are a few gangs in National city.

Probation was going to rent space in the area, gateway center, but they realized it would make gang members cross into one another's space so they changed their minds.

So while mom knew where the girl was going, in typical teen behavior, the girl went to another place.

That was a plot point in Terrifier 2.
The girl promised mom she wasn't going to drink, so mom was OK she was going to place X with friends, but girl went to Party Place with 1 friend (while the other was being murdered by Art the clown)

yeah, that is a problem.........you'd figure someone would do something about that.

Darn kids. When will they ever learn? 

What are they supposed to do: chain up their kids?

Oh yeah. Saint Abbey never did anything wrong.

[merh]

Nov 4, 2022 20:33:37 GMT Prometheus said:

Nov 4, 2022 13:33:56 GMT abbey1227 said:

yeah, that is a problem.........you'd figure someone would do something about that.

Darn kids. When will they ever learn? 

What are they supposed to do: chain up their kids?

Oh yeah. Saint Abbey never did anything wrong.

Well, after her sister died,.one would think maybe she would be more careful.

My kid was very paranoid about danger after my husband died for some time. Years. 

[Prometheus]

Nov 5, 2022 3:05:06 GMT merh said:

Nov 4, 2022 20:33:37 GMT Prometheus said:

What are they supposed to do: chain up their kids?

Oh yeah. Saint Abbey never did anything wrong.

Well, after her sister died,.one would think maybe she would be more careful.

My kid was very paranoid about danger after my husband died for some time. Years. 

So... no chains, just LoJack?

[abbey1227]

Nov 5, 2022 3:05:06 GMT merh said:

Well, after her sister died,.one would think maybe she would be more careful.

My kid was very paranoid about danger after my husband died for some time. Years. 

And this is the lesson for us all to learn........humans really do not learn all that well.

I didn't listen when I was young, dumb and full of .......vigor     And neither do millions of others.

THAT part doesn't shock me.........but the so called adults who still fail to learn after years and declining hormones? Mystifying

[merh]

Nov 5, 2022 4:26:00 GMT Prometheus said:

Nov 5, 2022 3:05:06 GMT merh said:

Well, after her sister died,.one would think maybe she would be more careful.

My kid was very paranoid about danger after my husband died for some time. Years. 

So... no chains, just LoJack?

We had to kiss each other's foreheads goodbye. Good luck charm sort of thing.

If I started the car before my kid was buckled in, I was trying to kill my kid.

Lots of rituals like that.

[abbey1227]

Nov 8, 2022 5:00:59 GMT merh said:

Nov 5, 2022 4:26:00 GMT Prometheus said:

So... no chains, just LoJack?

We had to kiss each other's foreheads goodbye. Good luck charm sort of thing.

If I started the car before my kid was buckled in, I was trying to kill my kid.

Lots of rituals like that.

well.................adjusted? 

[merh]

Nov 8, 2022 6:50:30 GMT abbey1227 said:

Nov 8, 2022 5:00:59 GMT merh said:

We had to kiss each other's foreheads goodbye. Good luck charm sort of thing.

If I started the car before my kid was buckled in, I was trying to kill my kid.

Lots of rituals like that.

well.................adjusted? 

My kid was 10 when my husband died.
Issues, like I said. 

Why this girl should have been more careful after her sister died. She apparently wasn't phased as much.

[abbey1227]

Nov 10, 2022 14:47:17 GMT merh said:

Nov 8, 2022 6:50:30 GMT abbey1227 said:

well.................adjusted? 

My kid was 10 when my husband died.
Issues, like I said. 

Why this girl should have been more careful after her sister died. She apparently wasn't phased as much.

That's the thing that bothers me so often, as well      but, oh well..........people gonna be people