Shootings and gun fights

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Shootings and Gun Fights are just part of the general crime statistics.

Shots fired and gun fights

Crime statistics are reportedly going down. But crime, like these shootings seems to be closer to me now. Drivers are more aggressive on the freeway. People are fighting for this or fighting for that.

Woman held in Oklahoma in El Cajon murder

October 28, 2007 SAN DIEGO – A 38-year-old woman accused of murdering an elderly man near El Cajon was captured Sunday in Oklahoma, authorities said.

Rhonda Elaine Hill was arrested early Sunday morning at a family member's home in Ketchum, Okla., by U.S. Marshall's deputies, according to a San Diego County Sheriff's spokesperson.

Hill is accused of shooting to death an 82-year-old man at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1300 block of Pepper Drive, just north of El Cajon.

According to police reports, eyewitnesses identified her as the woman seen running from the scene at the time of shooting. Her relationship to the man was unclear, deputies said.

She is currently being held in the Delaware County Jail in Jay, Okla., the spokesperson said.

Local sheriff's deputies are in route to pick-up Hill and bring her back to San Diego.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20071028-1045-homicidearrest.html

Navy IDs sailor killed in San Diego shooting

July 25, 2007 SAN DIEGO — The Navy identified a sailor shot and killed during an off-duty robbery near San Diego over the weekend as Gunner’s Mate 1st Class David C. Busby II, officials said.

Busby, 34, was working as a private security guard at a Kmart store in Ramona, Calif., when he tried to thwart an alleged shoplifter and was shot and killed by the assailant about 2:40 p.m. Saturday, according to local officials.

Several shoppers chased the alleged assailant and held him until deputies arrived and took him into custody, according to the San Diego County sheriff’s department. The man arrested, Andrew N. Griffith, 28, is slated to appear in court on Wednesday, according to the sheriff’s department.

Busby was a member of the precommissioning crew Independence, the second in the new class of Littoral Combat Ships destined to be homeported in San Diego.

“This is a tremendous loss for his family, for his fellow shipmates, and for the Navy,” said Lt. Cmdr. Heidi Lenzini, a spokeswoman at Naval Surface Forces in Coronado, Calif. “We have lost a great sailor.”

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/07/navy_sailor_shot_070724w/

Slaying of new father, 23, devastates Jamul family

December 06, 2006 JAMUL – Charles “Chuck” Crow was a new father working to buy a home when he was shot and killed in a bizarre attack by a gunman wearing camouflage who also wounded another man.

The father of a baby boy, Charles "Chuck" Crow, 23, loved riding his off-road vehicle in the desert on weekends. He was fatally shot Friday night outside Jamul.

The 23-year-old construction worker had been laboring long hours trying to save money to buy a house for his young family.

“And now he's gone,” said Rose Moran, 22, the mother of their 5-month-old son, Evan.

Crow's mother called her son's slaying senseless.

“I just don't understand why somebody would fire an assault rifle on a car full of innocent young men who were just driving by,” Teri Crow said yesterday.

“Why would somebody do this?”

Sheriff's detectives have yet to establish a motive for the shooting, which occurred about 8:30 p.m. Friday near Skyline Truck Trail and Wisecarver Truck Trail northeast of Jamul.

Charles Crow and two friends were driving on Wisecarver Truck Trail near his home when they passed a white Ford pickup that was parked on the side of the road.

A short time later they turned around and were driving back toward Skyline Truck Trail when they again came upon the pickup. This time a man stepped out, went to the center of the road and fired several shots at them with a high-powered rifle. Crow, who was a passenger, was killed and another passenger was wounded but not seriously.

Authorities are searching for the shooter, described as an unshaven white man with gray hair. He was wearing a green camouflage jacket, pants and a floppy brimmed hat.

Sheriff's Lt. Dennis Brugos said yesterday that investigators issued a search warrant on a vehicle that matched the description given by witnesses.

He declined to say whether the vehicle's owner had been found or interviewed, saying he didn't want to jeopardize the investigation.

Crow's family and friends said they want to see his killer brought to justice.

“He had so much to live for. He had so much to offer,” said Katie Castellanos, Charles Crow's cousin.

The youngest of three children, Crow loved fixing cars and riding his off-road vehicle in the Imperial Valley desert on the weekend.

He lived with his family at his parents' home in Jamul but was planning to a buy a house nearby and wanted to help his future wife set up a day-care center there.

This year he began working for a waterproofing company co-owned by a boyhood friend, Ely Leeyer.

“He was stoked to be working for us,” Leeyer said. “He had his own crew. He was doing a good job.

“This was real unfortunate.”

A viewing is scheduled at 10 a.m. Sunday at Glenn Abbey Memorial Park and Mortuary, 3838 Bonita Road, Bonita. Funeral services will follow at 1:30 p.m.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20061206-9999-2m6jamul.html

shots fired

While working in my garage I heard gun shots. two or three. three to four blocks away. about 6:30pm.

Shop's co-owner, worker were shot execution-style

March 3, 2006

EL CAJON – The crowd that gathered last night outside the liquor store on Broadway hugged and wept in the candlelight, chanting a Chaldean prayer for two of their own who were killed execution-style Wednesday.

This store is about a mile from my house.

FBI reviews liquor store recordings

Witness testifies about liquor store deaths

Ex-girlfriend: Suspect described shootings

July 31, 2007 EL CAJON – An El Cajon man boasted to his girlfriend and others that he killed a liquor store owner and an employee during a robbery because they unmasked him and refused to open a safe, witnesses testified in court yesterday.

NANCEE E. LEWIS / Union-Tribune Jean Pierre Rices (right) sat with his attorney, Mark Chambers, during a preliminary hearing yesterday in El Cajon Superior Court. Jean Pierre Rices, 25, of El Cajon and Anthony Miller, 21, of Alpine are charged with murder in the slayings of Heather Nabil Mattia, 22, and Firas Washid Eiso, 23, on March 1, 2006, at the Granada Liquor Store, which Mattia's family owned. Rices and Miller were arrested in November after police received a tip.

Debbie Mays, who was Rices' girlfriend at the time of the shooting, testified yesterday at a preliminary hearing in El Cajon Superior Court that Rices told her of the shooting during a barbecue in May 2006.

Mays said Rices complained that he didn't have any money and tried to get her to become a prostitute to raise cash. Mays testified that when she finally agreed, Rices “said he was going to let her in on a secret,” then told her of the liquor store shooting.

Mays said Rices told her he “just wanted what was in the safe” and didn't intend to harm anyone.

She testified that Rices said he and Miller entered the store on Broadway and he scuffled with Eiso, who ripped off the ski mask Rices was wearing.

“He made the guy lay down and he shot the guy, and he shot the girl because she wouldn't open the safe,” Mays testified.

She said Rices told her that he ordered Miller to leave the store before shooting Mattia and Eiso because he didn't think Miller could handle seeing the shooting.

Another witness gave similar testimony. Dwayne Hooks testified that Rices said he shot them after the worker pulled off his ski mask.

Hooks, who is Mays' brother, testified that Rices told him of the shooting during a baby shower for Hooks' wife in July 2006.

Rices said “he was the one who smoked or shot the people,” Hooks testified.

Miller, who also attended the baby shower, didn't say anything but “he would nod along” as Rices spoke of the shooting, Hooks said.

A friend of Rices', Rodney Hodges, testified that Rices asked him to join in the robbery of a liquor store the night before the Granada shooting. Hodges said he refused because he was caring for his son and couldn't leave the house. He said Rices later told him of the shooting.

Hodges, who is jail awaiting sentencing for the attempted robbery of a Bank of America branch in July 2006, said he was attacked in his jail cell by someone who tried to stab him to keep him from testifying against Rices.

Rices also has been charged in the Bank of America attempted robbery. Hodges said he was promised no more than five years in prison in exchange for his testimony in the liquor store slaying case.

Hooks agreed to testify in the case in exchange for a reduced sentence for robbing a Washington Mutual branch in Lakeside in July 2006. Hooks was sentenced to one day in jail for the bank robbery and also relocated for his protection.

The preliminary hearing in the liquor store case will continue today before Judge Allan J. Preckel to determine if evidence is sufficient for a trial.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070731-9999-1m31miller.html

El Cajon police act on tip, arrest two men in liquor store slayings

November 28, 2006 EL CAJON – Two men have been arrested in the execution-style slayings of a liquor store co-owner and her friend during a robbery in March, El Cajon police said last night.

El Cajon police Detective Sgt. Chuck Merino yesterday announced the arrests of two men in the slayings of Heather Nabil Mattia and Firas Waahid Eiso.

Anthony Miller, 21, of Alpine and Jean Rices, 25, of El Cajon are suspected of shooting Heather Nabil Mattia, 22, and Firas Waahid Eiso, 23, in the head as they lay on the floor of the Granada Liquor store, police said. Police held a news conference to announce the arrests, but did not say what information led them to Miller and Rices.

El Cajon Detective Sgt. Chuck Merino said a break in the case came “from out of the blue” about 10 days ago with information to sheriff's detectives in Santee. The information was relayed to El Cajon investigators last Tuesday.

Two detectives went to Miller's home in Alpine on Friday morning and took him into custody, Merino said.

Rices, already in County Jail facing trial on a bank robbery charge, was booked yesterday afternoon on charges of two counts each of murder and robbery, Merino said. Miller was booked on the same charges. They are scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow, Merino said.

The killings shocked the victims' families – they are Iraqi Chaldean Catholics – community members and owners of other small markets.

Auday Arabo, president of California Independent Grocers & Convenience Stores, said “San Diego County is safer today” because of the arrests. His organization offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction. Neither he nor police said whether anyone is in line to receive the reward.

Tapes from security video cameras showed that two men entered Granada Liquor on Broadway at 11:07 p.m. March 1. Within minutes, Mattia and Eiso were forced to lie on the floor in the middle of the store and were shot once each in the back of the head.

One gunman took money from two registers and the assailants left. The bodies were found at 11:15 p.m. by a longtime friend of the Mattia family, police said.

For months police received dozens of tips but nothing that led to the killers. On Aug. 31, sheriff's deputies arrested Rices on suspicion of holding up Washington Mutual bank in Lakeside on July 31. A teller testified in a September hearing that Rices held a pistol to her head and ordered her to open a cash drawer.

Rices was suspected of partnering with Rodney Lewis Hodges, 31, in several bank holdups in the county. Hodges is awaiting trial on a charge of trying to rob Bank of America in El Cajon, where robbers fired two shots into the ceiling but got no cash.

Family members said Mattia had co-owned Granada Liquor for three years with her brother, Chris, and was active at St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Church in El Cajon.

Eiso, from Iraq, had lived in the United States about a year and was seeking asylum.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20061128-9999-1m28granada.html

Prosecution could seek death penalty

Gorgia Kato (center), Huda Betty (left) and Eveleen Farida (right) attended yesterday's hearing. The three are aunts of slaying victim Heather Nabil Mattia.

November 30, 2006 EL CAJON – Two men accused in the execution-style killings of a liquor store co-owner and one of her employees pleaded not guilty yesterday in a case in which prosecutors may seek the death penalty.

A Superior Court judge ordered Anthony Miller, 21, of Alpine and Jean Rices, 25, of El Cajon held without bail on murder and robbery charges.

The two are accused of fatally shooting Heather Nabil Mattia, 22, and Firas Waahid Eiso, 23, at Granada Liquor on Broadway near Mollison Avenue on March 1.

Prosecutors also filed special charges that could allow them to seek the execution of the two men if they are convicted. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis typically makes such decisions after a preliminary hearing is held to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to merit a trial.

Judge Laura W. Halgren scheduled a Jan. 22 preliminary hearing. However, that might be delayed because the mental competency of Rices to stand trial in an unrelated bank-robbery case has been raised.

A hearing to determine whether he is capable of understanding the charges against him and assisting his lawyer is scheduled for Dec. 20.

After yesterday's hearing, some of Mattia's relatives broke into tears as they left the courtroom.

Mattia's sister, Evelyn, 29, and father, Nabil, said they were emotionally devastated after seeing in court the men accused of killing Heather Mattia.

Sobbing as he spoke, Nabil Mattia said, “It's not easy.”

“Thank God they are caught and they are in custody and justice will be served,” Evelyn Mattia said. “We were all waiting for this day.”

She said she kept asking herself, “Why, why did they do this?” during the court hearing.

She said family members will go to Heather's grave to tell her what happened in court.

“She knows; she's watching,” Evelyn Mattia said.

Meanwhile, Rices' uncle, Carl Muhammad, read a statement expressing his sorrow.

“Two families have been devastated by the loss of two beautiful lives,” Muhammad said. “Words will never express the anguish we feel.”

Neither Rices nor Miller said anything during the hearing.

Miller was arrested at his Alpine home Friday. Rices was already being held in county jail awaiting trial on the bank-robbery charges. Sheriff's deputies arrested him Aug. 31 on suspicion of robbing a Washington Mutual bank in Lakeside on July 31, police said.

El Cajon police announced their arrests Monday, saying they got a major break in the case “from out of the blue” almost two weeks ago. Sheriff's deputies in Santee received the tip and relayed the information to El Cajon detectives, El Cajon police Sgt. Chuck Merino said.

Investigators had already received dozens of tips about the case, but nothing had led to arrests until then. Merino declined to elaborate on what information they had received.

Police said there were no witnesses to the late-night slayings, but that surveillance tapes from the store's security cameras captured the crimes.

The tapes showed two men going into the business at 11:07 p.m. and quickly forcing Mattia and Eiso to lie facedown on the floor in the middle of the shop. They were then shot in the back of the head.

One of the assailants took money from two of the store's registers, and the pair left at 11:11 p.m., the tapes showed.

The bodies were found a short time later by a family friend who was concerned because Mattia had not shown up at a planned gathering.

Mattia co-owned the store with her brother Chris Mattia for nearly three years, and she and Eiso were members of the large and tightknit Iraqi Chaldean community, which was stunned and outraged at the killings.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20061130-9999-2m30rices.html

Shots fired and gun fights I have personally heard or seen

1. The first time there was a shooting in my neighborhood was in the early '80s. A robbery gone bad, hostages taken and then several killed.
2. In August 2005 there were shots fired just down the block from my house.
3. I was in Lancaster in late September 2005 and there were shots fired from one gun, then, a short time later, a gun battle with two weapons and 10-12 shots.
4. Wednesday, January 11, 2006 there were shots fired in my neighborhood, several blocks away, at 6:00am. Four shots, spaced out a bit. Ten minutes later there were shots exchanged, two weapons. Nothing in the news, never any police sirens.

Homicides Down In San Diego

01-13-2006 4:22 PM (San Diego, CA) -- San Diego Police say homicides in the city were down for the third year in a row. According to a report published in the "San Diego Union Tribune," there were 51 homicides last year, eleven less than in 2004, and a long way from the record 167 at the height of the crack-cocaine epidemic in 1991. San Diego police also reported nearly 50 percent fewer gang homicides in 2005, dropping to 12 from 22. Officials credit the decrease in part, to officer interaction with the community. The paper says, preliminary figures through November 2005 showed violent crime overall down two percent. That includes murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. It dropped to 6-thousand-25 cases from 6-thousand-168. Copyright 2006 Metro Networks Communications Inc., A Westwood One Company

Accidental Shootings

Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter

Vice President Dick Cheney, center, accepts a rifle from National Rifle Association President Kayne Robinson, right, and NRA Vice President Wayne R. LaPierre. Cheney later accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas

Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.

Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed him with shotgun pellets on Saturday while the two were hunting at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.

Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," Armstrong told the Associated Press in an interview.

"The vice president didn't see him," she continued. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."

The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

She said Whittington was bleeding but not very seriously injured, and Cheney was very apologetic.

"It broke the skin," she said. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that."

She said emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington, holding his face and cleaning up the blood.

"Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."

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