I was going to post something else first - but this is ‘live’ as it were.
Oh - and Mother - don’t read this one…
Michele and I had spent Saturday night away from home in the city (that was going to be the other post), our children were left with our daycare person for the night, and only Michele’s father was in the house overnight.
When we got home Sunday lunchtime, there was a business card from a local police officer on the kitchen counter. Since I doubted my 81 year old father-in-law got get in too much trouble I asked what had happened. He said there had been what he thought was a knock on the door at around midnight, followed by someone ringing the doorbell about 30 minutes later. George doesn’t move too quickly and in each case he hadn’t seen anyone but had found the card in the morning.
As I was unpacking the car from our trip a few minutes later a neighbour also arrived back home, and just as I was about to ask him if something had been happening on saturday night he was calling out to a policeman at the bottom of the street. Our neighbour had just seen a number of shell casings in the street outside our houses ! Talking to the police officer it transpired that there had been a report of gunfire at around midnight on Saturday night (hence the card), there had also been a drive by shooting about 2 miles from our house at around 11:00am on Sunday. Fortunately the victims had only been wounded, but the officer was pretty sure there was a connection between Saturdays gunfire and Sundays shooting.
During the afternoon the San Rafael PD evidence tech came by, took photos, measurements and so forth and collected the shells.
At around 8:15pm Sunday night a police helicopter started doing ‘donuts’ pretty much over our house and the surrounding neighbourhood. A call to SRPD revealed that they had arrested one of the suspects in the mornings shooting in a street near our home and were now searching the neighbourhood for 2 other suspects. ‘Stay inside and keep your doors locked and windows closed’ was their advice (see also this local CBS news story).
There’s been some sort of police roadblock/checkpoint at the bottom of our street for the past hour, and altough the helicopter has left the area I’m still not sure if the suspects have been caught or not.
Aaahhh… well… excitement ! We live in a good neighbourhood (my mother knows that) so it’s not too much cause for concern I suspect this will be resolved pretty quickly. Mind you SRPD has had a busy week with a hit & run (they found the driver) in a downtown parking garage and also chasing some bank robbers on Saturday (they were caught) and some flooding from all the rain we’ve been having.
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This post was written by awk on January 9, 2005
