Kashmier James had spent most of Christmas Day 2010 with family before heading off in the evening to visit with high school friends in the Manchester Square neighborhood of South Los Angeles.
As she arrived at her destination in the 1700 block of 85th Street near Western Avenue, half a dozen people stood talking on the sidewalk.
Her 3-year-old daughter still strapped in her car seat, James got out of her vehicle. Within moments, she was hit with a fusillade of gunfire.
For months, the James killing and dozens of other gang-related slayings like it remained unsolved.
Taxed detectives finally got some assistance in July when the FBI joined forces with the Los Angeles Police Department's criminal gang homicide unit for a three-month operation called Save Our Streets.
The goal was to clear the backlog of unsolved gang killings in the LAPD's South Bureau and to put a crimp in ongoing gang violence in an era of shrinking resources.
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