Another Round of Murders and Violent Crime Plagues the City Again!

According to the Record an article written on Friday 08-06-2010, stated that two people were killed within hours of each other. At approximately 1635 hours a person was reported to have been stabbed in the 800 block of South Lincoln. The victim was described as a 36 year old man, who was stabbed in the abdomen. According to the Record the subject was a documented gang member.



He was taken to the hospital were he was eventually pronounced dead. At around 1730 hours, Stockton Fire Department received a call of a 15  14 year old boy in a full arrest. The Fire department arrived on scene and did find a teenage boy in full traumatic arrest, so they began to work the code, and attempt to get his heart beating. I know the fire personnel and the AMR Medics worked very hard to save this boys life; however he had received to much damage from being beaten by 7-9 other subjects before he went into cardiac arrest.




This incident occurred in the 3800 block of Alvarado st at Panella Park.   The family identified the victim as Rin Ros a 14 yro boy who attended Stagg High School.  The witness(es) to the incident stated that Ros was pulled from a vehilce and beaten to the point he went into cardiac arrest.  After heroic measures the young teenager was transported "Code 3", to St.Joseph's Medical Center were he was pronounced dead. This was the second homicide for the Stockton Police. This was the precursor to what was to come later in the night and early morning of the next day.


Stockton Police received a "901B", which a code the department uses to broadcast to units, and it means a vehicle accident, unknown on injuries--officer needs to respond to ensure non-injury. Less then five minutes of the dispatcher broadcasting the accident call, a call came in of a "911(Nine-Eleven)" which means a person shot. The shooting call was at Arch Rd, and Newcastle. Arriving Officers on the scene, made it very apparent that it did not look good concerning the conditions of the victim. The victim was unresponsive, and so Medics were called into the scene ASAP.



According to what I listened to was it was a Mother and her son in the car, when another car full of subjects fired shots at the mother and son. The Son was struck, and did suffer a fatal wound. Stockton Police did a search of the mostly open fields and commercial buildings which are very hard to search, are a concern about Officer safety. Officer's could be abused by a subject laying in wait; the California Highway Patrol Helicopter was called from Auburn. CHP arrived and used their heat seeking, and night vision technology to do a good search of the area. No Suspects were located, however SPD did say that someone was still using the victims cellular phone to make text messages, and this could only be the subjects wanted in connection with the crime, or someone else, because the victim had passed away. Victim's witness was called for the mother.


Early at 0554 hours 08/07/2010, the Police received a call of a person shot on Ponce De Leon st. The caller reported that there was a man lying in the road way with a firearm on the ground next to him. Officer's arrived on the scene and found a man laying on the ground, who was suffering a GSW to his abdomen area. The subject was taken by AMR to the hospital, where he went into surgery, and was later pronounced dead.



At around 2259 hours 08/07/2010, the Police responded to a drive by shooting where there was a young woman suffering from a gun shot wound, that was not life threatening. The Police were told that a second victim was loaded into a car, and he looked limp, and non responsive, where he was supposed to be transported to the hospital by his friends. However, thankfully, he went home to his mother and was unhurt, and in good condition.




In the morning hours of 08/08/2010 0230, police received a shooting call at MLK and Grants Streets. A lady had ran up to a gas station clerk, covered in blood and asked him to call for help. Units arrived on the scene to find a Hispanic male sitting in his car he had been shot in his neck. He could not tell the police why or who shot at him; other than giving a vague description. He was in serious condition so the Police held the scene in case he died.



At around 0245, a Stockton Unified Police Officer came over on Stockton PD main dispatch channel and gave them a plate;  The plate was ran and the License plate matched a car that had just been broadcast by the Police, as a armed, firing 957's(Shoots Fired). The SUSD Officer was alone, and the SPD dispatcher requested several times for a unit to "fill", with the solo Officer.  The Dispatcher after not being able to get a unit to assist broadcast a signal "900", which means the channel is shut down for emergency traffic only, all other Officers are to respond via MDT or on Channel 2. After doing this, the dispatcher came over the air and alerted all cars: "All units Code 12, SUSD is following the 957 vehicle". No units from SPD could break to assist, and a CHP unit listening to the scanner must have heard this because CHP got behind the SUSD unit and five people were taken out of the car in a felony stop. Several people were detained without incident.


During the time SUSD Officer had the main channel dedicated to his traffic, Officers in North Stockton on Burney St,  heard several gunshots from an Automatic Rifle, one of the Officer's stated "the shots sound like they are going over our heads".


So the gunfire was very close to their location. Units had recently just recovered an AK47 from a house in the same area. At the time of this posting, nothing major has happened; However in reflection, three days Friday, Saturday, and Sunday there were four homicides, several shootings, and other violence.


Stockton Police Officers having less Officers on the street was very poignant this weekend, shifts were held over to answer priority calls that were needing an Officer; at each homicide scene that occurred,  there had to be one or more patrol Officer's assigned to the scene to block traffic and preserve the scene. This takes more Officers from being able to respond. The Officer's this weekend were stretched thin, and this is my opinion, and City Hall should take this weekends headlines in the Media that will be broadcast all over, as a wake up call to get it together down there, and get rid of the hockey team, or stop funding redevelopment projects where they were built to be a source of revenue, and not be given City Money to fund them so that they can operate. The Emergency Services of this City are far more important.


Post was originally wrote on August 8, 2010, and the updated references to the information in this post are listed below:
References
- Associated Press

- Police make headway after violent Friday

- "City sees 3 homicides in 7-hour span"

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