He said he plans to meet with his prosecutors soon to discuss what new measures his office could take to head off what appears to be a resurgence of gang violence. Valdez stopped at Reynosa and Belton streets Thursday and looked down at a stretch of pavement littered by window glass that was shattered by the bullets that struck the car that carried Bazan and Robert Lopez. Valdez then looked across the street at El Divino Salvador Presbyterian Church. Right in front of the Divine Savior. At the corner laundry on Belton and Sarita streets, where last month Robert Najar was injured in a shooting, residents said the turf war was far from over.
Rival gangs are jockeying for the power position of who earns the most drug money, residents say.
People in this established neighborhood, just beside Holy Family Church, are waiting for another gun battle. Some say they live in fear, jumping at the smallest noise, even a saw grinding away at a nearby house, fearing that the gang has come back to fight. Their children can't play in the front yard. This neighborhood that has raised generations of Corpus Christi residents is losing its peace, they say. People say that in all their years living here, in some cases as long as 50 years, it has never been like this.