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06-20-10, 03:43
http://cbs2.com/local/Murder.Suicide.Del.2.1761645.html
Del Taco Shooting Leaves 3 Dead, Including Boy, 6
Mother, 5-Year-Old Brother Clinging To Life
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) ―
A man opened fire on his stepdaughter's family inside a California restaurant Saturday, killing her husband and 6-year-old son, critically wounding her and another child, and then fatally shooting himself, police said.
The 56-year-old man arrived at the Del Taco restaurant in San Bernardino on a bike at about 1 p.m., walked over to a table and fired several shots at his 29-year-old stepdaughter, her 33-year-old husband, and their sons, ages 5 and 6, San Bernardino police Lt. Jarrod Burguan said.
"There was a very brief exchange of words, then he opened fire on them at near point-blank range," Burguan said.
The woman's husband was declared dead at the restaurant and the 6-year-old died at a hospital, San Bernardino Fire Department spokesman Steve Tracey said.
The woman and the 5-year-old boy were in critical condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Tracey said. The names of the victims and the shooter weren't released.
The woman's mother who was married to the gunman died several years ago, and investigators were probing what ties the gunman and his stepdaughter may still have had as they sought a motive for the shooting, Burguan said.
Police said between five and seven employees and several other customers were in the fast food restaurant, but the gunman clearly walked in seeking the four victims and no one else was injured.
Bullet holes marked the walls and glass covered the floor.
Owners of nearby businesses said horrified patrons streamed out of the restaurant after the shots were fired.
"I saw some people yelling and all of a sudden I heard 'boom, boom, boom, boom'," Jorge Garcia, who works at a recycling trailer in the same parking lot as the restaurant, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "I saw two employees run out of the employee door and then I saw eight or 10 people run out of the restaurant and across the street."
The gunman, Jimmy Schlager of Lancaster in northern Los Angeles County, had an extensive criminal record dating back to 1972 that included assault with a deadly weapon and a restraining order taken out by a co-worker. The suspect's last arrest was in 1999 and he was not on parole or probation.
Despite living an hour's drive away, the man had many ties to San Bernardino and once lived just a few blocks from the restaurant, Burguan said.
Burguan said the attack on the family was one of the worst crime scenes he could remember in San Bernardino, a city of about 200,000 people some 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
"This was something else," he said.
ah yes... the California Murder Suicide. a real classic.
who knows if these parents would have been packing heat if their state thought they had the right to defend their childrens' lives... but the simple fact that the state did not feel they had the right to defend themselves from this ****ing lunatic (just one of tens of thousands like him in that state, i'm sure), i really think some politicians ought to be charged with aiding the murderer. and every murder involving an unarmed innocent, for that matter.
swing them from the ****in trees. they've contributed to the brutal murders of thousands of people.
Del Taco Shooting Leaves 3 Dead, Including Boy, 6
Mother, 5-Year-Old Brother Clinging To Life
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) ―
A man opened fire on his stepdaughter's family inside a California restaurant Saturday, killing her husband and 6-year-old son, critically wounding her and another child, and then fatally shooting himself, police said.
The 56-year-old man arrived at the Del Taco restaurant in San Bernardino on a bike at about 1 p.m., walked over to a table and fired several shots at his 29-year-old stepdaughter, her 33-year-old husband, and their sons, ages 5 and 6, San Bernardino police Lt. Jarrod Burguan said.
"There was a very brief exchange of words, then he opened fire on them at near point-blank range," Burguan said.
The woman's husband was declared dead at the restaurant and the 6-year-old died at a hospital, San Bernardino Fire Department spokesman Steve Tracey said.
The woman and the 5-year-old boy were in critical condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Tracey said. The names of the victims and the shooter weren't released.
The woman's mother who was married to the gunman died several years ago, and investigators were probing what ties the gunman and his stepdaughter may still have had as they sought a motive for the shooting, Burguan said.
Police said between five and seven employees and several other customers were in the fast food restaurant, but the gunman clearly walked in seeking the four victims and no one else was injured.
Bullet holes marked the walls and glass covered the floor.
Owners of nearby businesses said horrified patrons streamed out of the restaurant after the shots were fired.
"I saw some people yelling and all of a sudden I heard 'boom, boom, boom, boom'," Jorge Garcia, who works at a recycling trailer in the same parking lot as the restaurant, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "I saw two employees run out of the employee door and then I saw eight or 10 people run out of the restaurant and across the street."
The gunman, Jimmy Schlager of Lancaster in northern Los Angeles County, had an extensive criminal record dating back to 1972 that included assault with a deadly weapon and a restraining order taken out by a co-worker. The suspect's last arrest was in 1999 and he was not on parole or probation.
Despite living an hour's drive away, the man had many ties to San Bernardino and once lived just a few blocks from the restaurant, Burguan said.
Burguan said the attack on the family was one of the worst crime scenes he could remember in San Bernardino, a city of about 200,000 people some 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
"This was something else," he said.
ah yes... the California Murder Suicide. a real classic.
who knows if these parents would have been packing heat if their state thought they had the right to defend their childrens' lives... but the simple fact that the state did not feel they had the right to defend themselves from this ****ing lunatic (just one of tens of thousands like him in that state, i'm sure), i really think some politicians ought to be charged with aiding the murderer. and every murder involving an unarmed innocent, for that matter.
swing them from the ****in trees. they've contributed to the brutal murders of thousands of people.