A 20-year-old writer was hit by two cars and killed near Los Angeles

A 20-year-old writer was hit by two cars and killed near Los Angeles after spraying graffiti on the freeway’s center divider.
December 13th, 2010
Poetic justice? Graffiti artist killed by cars after tagging freeway?

That’s a fucked up headline usa today put up on their website yesterday!



A 20-year-old tagger was hit by two cars and killed near Los Angeles after spraying graffiti on the freeway’s center divider, the Los Angeles Times reports.

For long, freeways in California and other cities across the nation have been turned into blighted messes by rampant graffiti spraying. But it turns out that tagging can be a deadly hobby. Raul Garcia Jr. of Lynwood and two other men had been tagging on the Long Beach Freeway in Compton when they were struck around 4 a.m. Saturday, the California Highway Patrol told the Times.

Garcia was struck by a Nissan Maxima that had just merged into the far left lane. He was then thrown into another lane and struck by another car. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

There have certainly been other serious injuries and deaths over the years among taggers. Daniel Supple, suspected of tagging the word “Ozie” all over Los Angeles, was critically injured in 1997 when he fell from an overpass in Los Angeles while tagging. That’s his tag in the photo. He fell 100 feet.

Via:usatoday