We really should move...
Noelle and I came home last night to a neighborhood in practical lock-down.
There was a shooting 200 yards from our home around the corner from the Quickie Mart. No it wasn't actually IN the Quickie Mart, rather, in the middle of the street. Some 19 year old punk-gang-banger decided to shoot at someone's car and in the process killed the guy. Three shots to the head. Judging from where they had the telltale yellow blanket on the ground, the poor man stumbled from his car, across three lanes to the grass in front of the Quickie Mart where he fell and expired.
All this because of the Gangster Rap, Hip Hop, NOISE and “music” fest called the KMEL Summer Jam at Shoreline Amphitheater. It is widely known that this event attracts violence and this time, for that poor person in the car who, I hear, didn't even attend the event, the violence struck senselessly. What if i had been home, and decided to go over to Costco for some steak at that time?
Shudder the thought...It's things like this that don't make me feel safe in my own home. We live in Mountain View because it's a quiet community with friendly neighbors, (okay, maybe not the people who live behind us). When we hear of things like this happening with more frequency, we get scared.
Here's the kicker - when we finally got to our apartment, our neighbor told us that the fugitive, (whom they have not caught yet) took a shortcut through OUR apartment complex! This just makes a guy feel all fuzzy inside.
So Noelle and I have decided to start looking for better places to live. We're thinking of Colma. The Population in 2002 was 1,179 and there are more dead people there than there are living.
Now that's quiet.
(....for those of you who are interested in the story that the SJ Mercury posted online, I tried to insert the link here, but it redirects to a subscription page, so here is the text from that article regarding the shooting)
Police probe fatal shooting in Mtn. View...
Mountain View police were investigating a homicide Sunday evening near Shoreline Amphitheatre soon after concertgoers had filed out from the annual, daylong KMEL Summer Jam concert.Police received a call about 7:45 p.m. of shots fired in the area of Rengstorff Avenue and Old Middlefield Way.
They arrived to find one male victim lying alongside the road near a strip mall at the intersection. He was later pronounced dead.
Witnesses reported a large gathering and a fight before the shooting at a strip mall on the southwest corner of the intersection. The crowd fled after the gunfire. Witnesses said the assailants left in three, older, American-made sedans. No suspects were in custody, police said, though they were looking for a black male in his late teens or early 20s, about 5 foot 10 to 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. He was wearing a white baggy T-shirt down past his waist and long, baggy blue shorts.
Police said they didn't know whether the victim or assailants had attended the concert, which featured several pop and hip-hop artists and ended about 6:15 p.m. They also didn't know whether the shooter and victim knew each other.
There was a shooting 200 yards from our home around the corner from the Quickie Mart. No it wasn't actually IN the Quickie Mart, rather, in the middle of the street. Some 19 year old punk-gang-banger decided to shoot at someone's car and in the process killed the guy. Three shots to the head. Judging from where they had the telltale yellow blanket on the ground, the poor man stumbled from his car, across three lanes to the grass in front of the Quickie Mart where he fell and expired.
All this because of the Gangster Rap, Hip Hop, NOISE and “music” fest called the KMEL Summer Jam at Shoreline Amphitheater. It is widely known that this event attracts violence and this time, for that poor person in the car who, I hear, didn't even attend the event, the violence struck senselessly. What if i had been home, and decided to go over to Costco for some steak at that time?
Shudder the thought...It's things like this that don't make me feel safe in my own home. We live in Mountain View because it's a quiet community with friendly neighbors, (okay, maybe not the people who live behind us). When we hear of things like this happening with more frequency, we get scared.
Here's the kicker - when we finally got to our apartment, our neighbor told us that the fugitive, (whom they have not caught yet) took a shortcut through OUR apartment complex! This just makes a guy feel all fuzzy inside.
So Noelle and I have decided to start looking for better places to live. We're thinking of Colma. The Population in 2002 was 1,179 and there are more dead people there than there are living.
Now that's quiet.
(....for those of you who are interested in the story that the SJ Mercury posted online, I tried to insert the link here, but it redirects to a subscription page, so here is the text from that article regarding the shooting)
Police probe fatal shooting in Mtn. View...
Mountain View police were investigating a homicide Sunday evening near Shoreline Amphitheatre soon after concertgoers had filed out from the annual, daylong KMEL Summer Jam concert.Police received a call about 7:45 p.m. of shots fired in the area of Rengstorff Avenue and Old Middlefield Way.
They arrived to find one male victim lying alongside the road near a strip mall at the intersection. He was later pronounced dead.
Witnesses reported a large gathering and a fight before the shooting at a strip mall on the southwest corner of the intersection. The crowd fled after the gunfire. Witnesses said the assailants left in three, older, American-made sedans. No suspects were in custody, police said, though they were looking for a black male in his late teens or early 20s, about 5 foot 10 to 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. He was wearing a white baggy T-shirt down past his waist and long, baggy blue shorts.
Police said they didn't know whether the victim or assailants had attended the concert, which featured several pop and hip-hop artists and ended about 6:15 p.m. They also didn't know whether the shooter and victim knew each other.
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