
Bellflower’s homeless problem
In 2018, the leaders of Bellflower, had what Mayor Juan Garza calls a “wake-up moment.” For the first time in the Bellflower’s history, a citywide poll had found homelessness, not crime, to be the issue that most concerned residents. “Bar none, every single year, crime had always been the number 1 issue,” Garza says. The city didn’t have a single homeless shelter; however, it did have 166 homeless residents, according to a point-in-time survey, and most of them were living on


Bellflower Shooting Leaves Man Hospitalized
Early Monday morning a man was hospitalized after an early morning shooting near a Bellflower apartment complex. The Bellflower Firefighters were called to a gunshot wound victim in the 1600 block of Woodruff Avenue, according to officials in charge of the scene. A witness to the ordeal told reporters that a man driving a Dodge sedan was pulling out of the side of the El Morocco apartment complex on his way to work. The witness then explained that the victim was shot outside


Two Men In Bellflower Try to Rob a Jewelry Store
Early on Wednesday morning, two men decided to try to rob a local jewelry store in order to make a quick buck. However, they were not ready for the security measures that the jewelry store takes in order to keep their merchandise safe from people such as these two. As the men entered the store, they began looking around as if they were interested in purchasing a piece of jewelry for their wives. As they figured out which items were worth the most, one of the men pulled out a


Two Wounded in Bellflower shooting
Earlier today there was an incident in the city of Bellflower involving two vehicles and a lot of gunfire according to authorities. There was two wounded men as a result of a car-to-car drive-by shooting in the city and both men are being treated in the local Hospital. The gunfire was reported to police around 12:30 p.m. in the 8700 block of Maple Street. The victims were both around the age of 19 years old and they both were sitting in the park when the incident occurred. Th