In loving memory of Antonio Zimiga (Tiny T)
Sunrise: June 21, 1977 – Sunset: Febuary 2, 2010
Tiny was not just my best homeboy for 20 years, he was also my best friend, my only person that I could truly rely on for anything, and I mean anything. As youths the things that we had been through, and made it through were not everyday type of things that teenagers go through. We were part of something that ment a lot to us, and in total there was about 10 of us all together. At all times we were a family, a unit, a movement! We all made it through and were very lucky. For thoses of us that are left, and by using the word left, I mean still living, we are constantly at a struggle in our minds about the losses we have been through. At a young age death is not understood correctly, But the death of a teenagers friend, or homeboy, is something that is crucial, and many of us still are haunted by our memories of our homies that are gone.
Febuary 2, 2010 around 8 p.m. Tiny was in front of his house sitting inside his car with a girl that he had been seeing for only a couple weeks. Antonio did not bring this girl around anyone, nobody knows what she looks like or anything about her. But for the few weeks that Antonino was involved with her he stayed away from all, except the handful of people that were a social group that this girl belonged to.
Febuary 2, 2010 Antonio was shot in the head. By who? No one knows. The San Bruno police and the South San Francisco police spent more then an hour debating on which city should be handling Antonio’s murder because Antonio’s house was borderline between the two cities.
Sadly, I don’t know much about anything in this matter, what I do know is that Sgt. Jonie Lee of the South San Francisco police pushed the fact that Antonio was in a gang in his teenage years that lead Antonio to being in jail for over 15 years, not just that on Febuary 3,2010, I read in the local news paper that the shooting the night before was a suicide.
Next month Febuary 2,2012, Tiny T will be gone two years and his is unresolved, case closed based on no facts at all of my friend killing himself.
Antoinio was asked by my Husand Terry, (who was murdered Jan 13, 2011) to be our daughter Terriana’s Godfather. Tiny was always for my son like an Uncle.
Our future for our children is dark, almost hopeless.
Rest in peace with terry and watch over us Tiny.
Love you and miss you dearly
Mrs. Turner
There is a process you can ask to.be done where you force a grand jury to review the facts surrounding a mysterious death. You have to print the form fill it out, and the girl in question should summoned to court. Since she lives in Sunnydale, it’s not that hard to find her.