Sadness, Hope & Wonderment
Lots of news today, so let's get to it.
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MAN SHOT IN RICHMOND PARKS CAR, DIES
By Karl Fischer
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
North Richmond residents found a body behind the wheel of a neatly parked car this morning, two hours after police searched the area in response to a shooting call.
Richmond police believe someone shot 37-year-old El Cerrito resident David Tidmore as he drove on the 300 block of Duboce Avenue, west of Filbert Street.
"We received a call from a resident on that block who heard gunfire," Richmond police Sgt. Allwyn Brown said. "The officers who went to that location found some signs that a shooting had occurred. There were spent shell casings on the ground, some broken glass. They did not find a victim or anything else to indicate what happened."
The officers left, but returned to the area after a Duboce Avenue resident east of Filbert called at 1:04 a.m. to report a man slumped behind the wheel of a car parked at the curb.
"It appears that the victim may have been shot at the first location, then drove to the second location, parked, and succumbed to his injuries," Brown said.
Police have no witnesses or leads in the case.
The killing was the 24th reported in Richmond this year and the second within 24 hours. On Tuesday someone shot a 36-year-old bicyclist near the intersection of Roosevelt Avenue and 20th Street in the Belding Woods neighborhood.
Police ask anyone with information to call Detective Terry Miles at 510-620-6860.
Reach Karl Fischer at 510-262-2728 or kfischer@cctimes.com.
TAZER SAYS: "The killing was the 24th reported in Richmond this year and the second within 24 hours"? Hey, we thought there were supposed to be SAFE STREETS NOW.
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MANHUNT NETS SUSPECT IN SLAYING
RICHMOND: Police say Hasan, others sought revenge for earlier killing
By Karl Fischer
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Jamal Atif Hasan, 31, previously eluded police raids in Pittsburg, Vallejo and Sacramento. Richmond detectives working with the FBI learned Monday evening that Hasan, who also uses the name Frazier, was going to visit a relative's home in the Stanislaus County city.
Richmond detectives Mike Rood, Aaron Mandell and Aaron Pomeroy, who is assigned to the FBI's Project Safe Neighborhoods task force, joined federal agents and several dozen Modesto police officers in surveillance of the apartment in the 300 block of Standiford Avenue.
"At about 9 p.m., the suspect left the apartment and got into a white Lincoln Continental, and the Lincoln began driving through the parking lot," Modesto police Sgt. Craig Gundlach said. "At that point officers stopped the car, and (the suspect) got out and ran."
Police detained the driver, a Richmond man, but did not arrest him. SWAT officers spent two hours searching before finding Hasan hiding under a bed sheet in a patio. "He was about 100 feet from the car," Gundlach said. "He was hiding there the entire time."
Police found about two ounces of methamphetamine and similar amounts of cocaine and marijuana near where Hasan hid, Richmond Detective Sgt. Mitch Peixoto said.
Modesto police booked him into Stanislaus County Jail on suspicion of drug offenses, the homicide warrant and another drug warrant from Shasta County.
Richmond police say Hasan drove a Chevrolet Astrovan used as a getaway car after the Jan. 31 killing of Kevin Kaya.
Kaya, 48, was with friends on South 34th Street near Cutting Boulevard when three men stopped about 100 feet up the block. One fired several rounds down the block toward a nearby liquor store. Several struck Kaya, who police say was not the intended target.
Hasan drove the getaway van, Rood said, and may have played a greater role. Detectives also arrested 18-year-old Davion Johnson on suspicion of murder in May, and last week, they arrested a 17-year-old man in the same case, Rood said. Prosecutors will review the case this week.
The suspects shot at gang rivals at the store, who they thought killed 16-year-old Jerrell Moore the previous day on South 36th Street, Rood said.
Police have not identified any suspects in the Moore case. The Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Foundation last month offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of his killers.
In June, police laid siege to a Sacramento house for eight hours and fired tear gas canisters through the windows, only to find that Hasan was not home.
Reach Karl Fischer at 510-262-2728 or kfischer@cctimes.com.
HOW TO HELP
Police ask anyone with information about the Jan. 31 slaying of Kevin Kaya to call Detective Mike Rood at 510-620-6625.
TAZER SAYS: A pat on the back to all of the law enforcement agencies involved in the apprehension! Good work, guys!
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A very worthy cause
IN RICHMOND, THE KILLINGS of young people, by other young people, have sadly become routine headlines.
But amid all of the street killings that have ravaged Richmond's poor, black neighborhoods, the killing of Terrance Kelly stands out from the rest.
The loss of such a talented young man with such a promising future not only outraged a community but it also helped galvanize residents fed up with the killings and fueled a movement to stop the violence.
Kelly, who was raised by his father and grandmother in inner-city Richmond, had done everything right.
He had avoided the gangs and the drugs and the crime. He had used his athletic ability as a ticket to a better life. A star football player at De la Salle High School, Kelly was on his way to a full football scholarship at the University of Oregon.
Residents in Richmond's rough and tumble neighborhoods kept his picture posted on their refrigerators as an example for their own children.
Two days before Kelly was to leave for college, he was sitting in a car in the Iron Triangle when someone walked up and shot him.
The trial of Darren Pratcher, 17, the accused gunman, begins this week - nearly two years to the date of Kelly's Aug. 12, 2004, murder.
Prosecutors say Pratcher shot Kelly over a simple grudge. If convicted, Pratcher, who is being tried as an adult, could get 50 years in state prison.
Had Kelly's father, Landrin Kelly, wanted to get an eye for an eye, he would have found many willing and able to avenge the murder of Richmond's favorite son.
But in the midst of crushing grief, the older Kelly chose to do what he could to turn his devastating personal loss into something positive.
Although Landrin Kelly moved out of Richmond, he refused to turn his back on the city.
Last year, he established the Terrance Kelly Youth Foundation. The nonprofit organization's goal is to provide young people with alternatives and opportunities that they can't get on the streets of the Iron Triangle.
It will offer mentoring, tutoring, training programs and sports activities at the newly renovated Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center.
This Saturday, the foundation will hold its second annual dinner and auction at the Salesian Girls and Boys Club to raise money for its programs.
Major area businesses such as Chevron and Kaiser Permanente are supporters. Meanwhile, the Richmond Children's Foundation has given $2.5 million.
We urge other businesses and residents to support this worthy cause.
We can't bring Terrance Kelly back. But if the foundation that bears his name can help steer other youths away from the path of violence, his tragically short life will not have been in vain.
TAZER SAYS: From the tragedy that was Terrance Kelly's murder Poppa Landrin has salvaged hope. It's an example that all of Richmond could follow.
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And finally, the wonderment...
The Tazer wonders whatever happened to the Richmond Civic Center renovation development meeting, which you can read about HERE and was supposed to happen yesterday.
Anybody with any news on that? Can't find anything on the city website or in the Times, so if you have a scoop feel free to file it here.
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MAN SHOT IN RICHMOND PARKS CAR, DIES
By Karl Fischer
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
North Richmond residents found a body behind the wheel of a neatly parked car this morning, two hours after police searched the area in response to a shooting call.
Richmond police believe someone shot 37-year-old El Cerrito resident David Tidmore as he drove on the 300 block of Duboce Avenue, west of Filbert Street.
"We received a call from a resident on that block who heard gunfire," Richmond police Sgt. Allwyn Brown said. "The officers who went to that location found some signs that a shooting had occurred. There were spent shell casings on the ground, some broken glass. They did not find a victim or anything else to indicate what happened."
The officers left, but returned to the area after a Duboce Avenue resident east of Filbert called at 1:04 a.m. to report a man slumped behind the wheel of a car parked at the curb.
"It appears that the victim may have been shot at the first location, then drove to the second location, parked, and succumbed to his injuries," Brown said.
Police have no witnesses or leads in the case.
The killing was the 24th reported in Richmond this year and the second within 24 hours. On Tuesday someone shot a 36-year-old bicyclist near the intersection of Roosevelt Avenue and 20th Street in the Belding Woods neighborhood.
Police ask anyone with information to call Detective Terry Miles at 510-620-6860.
Reach Karl Fischer at 510-262-2728 or kfischer@cctimes.com.
TAZER SAYS: "The killing was the 24th reported in Richmond this year and the second within 24 hours"? Hey, we thought there were supposed to be SAFE STREETS NOW.
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MANHUNT NETS SUSPECT IN SLAYING
RICHMOND: Police say Hasan, others sought revenge for earlier killing
By Karl Fischer
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Jamal Atif Hasan, 31, previously eluded police raids in Pittsburg, Vallejo and Sacramento. Richmond detectives working with the FBI learned Monday evening that Hasan, who also uses the name Frazier, was going to visit a relative's home in the Stanislaus County city.
Richmond detectives Mike Rood, Aaron Mandell and Aaron Pomeroy, who is assigned to the FBI's Project Safe Neighborhoods task force, joined federal agents and several dozen Modesto police officers in surveillance of the apartment in the 300 block of Standiford Avenue.
"At about 9 p.m., the suspect left the apartment and got into a white Lincoln Continental, and the Lincoln began driving through the parking lot," Modesto police Sgt. Craig Gundlach said. "At that point officers stopped the car, and (the suspect) got out and ran."
Police detained the driver, a Richmond man, but did not arrest him. SWAT officers spent two hours searching before finding Hasan hiding under a bed sheet in a patio. "He was about 100 feet from the car," Gundlach said. "He was hiding there the entire time."
Police found about two ounces of methamphetamine and similar amounts of cocaine and marijuana near where Hasan hid, Richmond Detective Sgt. Mitch Peixoto said.
Modesto police booked him into Stanislaus County Jail on suspicion of drug offenses, the homicide warrant and another drug warrant from Shasta County.
Richmond police say Hasan drove a Chevrolet Astrovan used as a getaway car after the Jan. 31 killing of Kevin Kaya.
Kaya, 48, was with friends on South 34th Street near Cutting Boulevard when three men stopped about 100 feet up the block. One fired several rounds down the block toward a nearby liquor store. Several struck Kaya, who police say was not the intended target.
Hasan drove the getaway van, Rood said, and may have played a greater role. Detectives also arrested 18-year-old Davion Johnson on suspicion of murder in May, and last week, they arrested a 17-year-old man in the same case, Rood said. Prosecutors will review the case this week.
The suspects shot at gang rivals at the store, who they thought killed 16-year-old Jerrell Moore the previous day on South 36th Street, Rood said.
Police have not identified any suspects in the Moore case. The Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Foundation last month offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of his killers.
In June, police laid siege to a Sacramento house for eight hours and fired tear gas canisters through the windows, only to find that Hasan was not home.
Reach Karl Fischer at 510-262-2728 or kfischer@cctimes.com.
HOW TO HELP
Police ask anyone with information about the Jan. 31 slaying of Kevin Kaya to call Detective Mike Rood at 510-620-6625.
TAZER SAYS: A pat on the back to all of the law enforcement agencies involved in the apprehension! Good work, guys!
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A very worthy cause
IN RICHMOND, THE KILLINGS of young people, by other young people, have sadly become routine headlines.
But amid all of the street killings that have ravaged Richmond's poor, black neighborhoods, the killing of Terrance Kelly stands out from the rest.
The loss of such a talented young man with such a promising future not only outraged a community but it also helped galvanize residents fed up with the killings and fueled a movement to stop the violence.
Kelly, who was raised by his father and grandmother in inner-city Richmond, had done everything right.
He had avoided the gangs and the drugs and the crime. He had used his athletic ability as a ticket to a better life. A star football player at De la Salle High School, Kelly was on his way to a full football scholarship at the University of Oregon.
Residents in Richmond's rough and tumble neighborhoods kept his picture posted on their refrigerators as an example for their own children.
Two days before Kelly was to leave for college, he was sitting in a car in the Iron Triangle when someone walked up and shot him.
The trial of Darren Pratcher, 17, the accused gunman, begins this week - nearly two years to the date of Kelly's Aug. 12, 2004, murder.
Prosecutors say Pratcher shot Kelly over a simple grudge. If convicted, Pratcher, who is being tried as an adult, could get 50 years in state prison.
Had Kelly's father, Landrin Kelly, wanted to get an eye for an eye, he would have found many willing and able to avenge the murder of Richmond's favorite son.
But in the midst of crushing grief, the older Kelly chose to do what he could to turn his devastating personal loss into something positive.
Although Landrin Kelly moved out of Richmond, he refused to turn his back on the city.
Last year, he established the Terrance Kelly Youth Foundation. The nonprofit organization's goal is to provide young people with alternatives and opportunities that they can't get on the streets of the Iron Triangle.
It will offer mentoring, tutoring, training programs and sports activities at the newly renovated Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center.
This Saturday, the foundation will hold its second annual dinner and auction at the Salesian Girls and Boys Club to raise money for its programs.
Major area businesses such as Chevron and Kaiser Permanente are supporters. Meanwhile, the Richmond Children's Foundation has given $2.5 million.
We urge other businesses and residents to support this worthy cause.
We can't bring Terrance Kelly back. But if the foundation that bears his name can help steer other youths away from the path of violence, his tragically short life will not have been in vain.
TAZER SAYS: From the tragedy that was Terrance Kelly's murder Poppa Landrin has salvaged hope. It's an example that all of Richmond could follow.
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And finally, the wonderment...
The Tazer wonders whatever happened to the Richmond Civic Center renovation development meeting, which you can read about HERE and was supposed to happen yesterday.
Anybody with any news on that? Can't find anything on the city website or in the Times, so if you have a scoop feel free to file it here.
posted by Plunda Claus @ 1:46 PM
3 Comments:
At August 16, 2006 2:35 PM,
Anonymous said…
ha ha tazer..... SAFE STREETS NOW....i get it...youre nothing but cheapshot artists..do something good for a change and shut up!
At August 17, 2006 11:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
Screw you Socko!
At August 18, 2006 1:17 AM,
Anonymous said…
Funny how the sockpuppet doesn't want to say that the homicide was bad, the crook capture was good, that Landrin Kelly is strong of heart, or that there's any news from that meeting.
Laugh it up, socko. "Safe Streets Now" is the real joke.
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