Rosie was always smiling. She had a young daughter. She loved to write - she wrote her dreams. She can't raise her daughter or write her dreams anymore because someone decided to wrecklessly use a gun and take her life.
Two arrests have been made in connection with Rosa's murder August 4, 2001. 5 1/2 years of waiting for Justice.
Rosie was on the porch @ 231 North Front Street in Reading shortly before 5AM. A slow moving maroon car came down the street.
At least twelve shots were fired - could have been from the car or from the sidewalk back. One of those shots hit Rosie.
She died a few hours later.
Another young life lost to violence in the streets.
This is senseless.
The same night a few hours earlier and just several blocks away, another shooting at the Millenium Club.
Report dated 7/27/2009
7/24/2009 Trial to Begin Today For Shooting Death of Rosa Gonzalez
Article dated 7/28/2009
Reading man sentenced to 10-20 years in state prison for slaying of Birdsboro woman The plea was based on an agreement between Senior Deputy Attorney General Iva C. Dougherty and Dominguez's lawyer, Jack McMahon of Philadelphia.
Rosa
Report dated 7/27/2009
Surprise Plea From Man Accused Of Killing Woman In 2001
Report dated 8/13/2009
Men Pleads Guilty To Role In 2001 Murder Of Woman In Reading
Article dated 8/14/2009
Reading man pleads guilty to firing shot that killed woman trying to flee gunbattle Sentencing is scheduled for September 2009
Article dated 9/4/2009
Reading man offers tearful apology for killing woman during gunbattle He was sentenced to 111/2 to 23 months in jail for killing a woman during a 2001 gunbattle in the 200 block of North Front Street.
