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Shots Fired
updated: Feb 19, 2013, 7:21 PM

Shots Fired: Man down 1000 block of Olive Street. SBPD responding...people living nearby should stay in your homes.

John Palminteri reports on the Olive Street shooting as the victim was rushed to the hospital. [pic] (02/21/13)

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ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 07:23 PM
Possible suspect running North Bound up Olive For people living in the area Please stay in your homes. There is a gun man on the street in your neighborhood.
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 07:24 PM
Confirmed victim on the ground..
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 07:24 PM
PD Blocking Carrillo and Figourea on Olive.
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 07:25 PM
Suspect discribed as Hispanic male wearing dark clothing..
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 07:27 PM
Alot of police in the area...People living in the area lock your doors and stay inside.
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 07:29 PM
There were two hispanic males running North on Olive.
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 07:30 PM
All streets in area closed for investigation.
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 07:32 PM
Suspects discribed as wearing two lite shirts dark pants shaved heads..
COMMENT 376377P	2013-02-19 07:39 PM
This evening I watched the LA news about three innocent people being gunned down this morning in Orange county. For the first time in my life I'm serious about buying a gun. And carrying it illegally.
EMUWREN1	2013-02-19 07:40 PM
Thank you, Roger, for warning us. We live at top of Olive St. These guys would have to be pretty fit to run the six or seven blocks up Olive, to get to our place. We can hear the sirens now. I second 374: where are the dogs? Hope they're onto these gunmen.
COMMENT 376379P	2013-02-19 07:42 PM
Just don't leave your guns around where your disgruntled teenagers can get at them. Sandyhook.
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 07:49 PM
Not hearing anything on their channel anymore must have went to the phones..I did hear that the victim was transported to the hospital with two bullet wounds to the chest.
COMMENT 376386	2013-02-19 07:49 PM
Good job, 377P. That won't really help you much.
COMMENT 376389	2013-02-19 07:50 PM
I'm sure the guy with the gun had a target in mind, not just randomly shooting.
COMMENT 376391P	2013-02-19 07:54 PM
377: The same thought occurred to me. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. With increasing violence in our cities, prisoners being released in our communities so prisons don't get overcrowded and the police resources being less available, the thought of carrying my own protection is starting to make more sense.
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 07:55 PM
Sounds like your right 89 but you never really know.
COMMENT 376400P	2013-02-19 08:10 PM
Santa Barbara. What has become of our sleepy little burg?
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 08:15 PM
We had more violence here in the 80's..I think We didn't have the internet then though.
D8VANILLA	2013-02-19 08:25 PM
@roger - I agree with you about the internet. We get way more info than ever before. They can't suppress the bad stuff anymore. More Crime~~~ That's what happens when there are too many people for the size of the City.
COMMENT 376409	2013-02-19 08:25 PM
400P - Society here begins descent from order to chaos to eventual anarchy. Thank the PC crowd over several decades for weak-willed, frightened "leadership."
COMMENT 376410	2013-02-19 08:26 PM
Yea we did, just didn't always hear about it
COMMENT 376411P	2013-02-19 08:27 PM
Isn't that block close to the High School & the Police Station??? I'm gonna mapquest it...
COMMENT 376412P	2013-02-19 08:32 PM
376409 Crime rates have varied over time in the United States. American crime rates generally rose after World War II, and peaked between the 1970s and early 1990s. Since the early 1990s, crime has declined in the United States,[5] and current crime rates are approximately the same as those of the 1960s.[6] There is a HUGE difference between facts and rabid imagination.
D8VANILLA	2013-02-19 08:34 PM
Yep, thats by the Carrillo entrance to the High School. Where the pool is located. Hope the victum is ok. And, hope they catch those 2 idiots.
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 08:41 PM
It don't sound good for the victim.
COMMENT 376417	2013-02-19 08:46 PM
412P, people like that don't operate on facts. Rabid imagination and fear born from sensationalism is all they have.
D8VANILLA	2013-02-19 08:47 PM
A friend of mine lives over there and said that someone on a bicycle was shot. They heard 4 gun shots. And, the news people are over there getting the story. Way to go John Palminteri!!
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 08:54 PM
Someone on a bicycle? Will then maybe it wasn't a hit maybe it was random.
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 09:05 PM
Power outage.
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-19 09:12 PM
The Palm is on the job and I'm outta here...potty time.
COMMENT 376424P	2013-02-19 09:47 PM
I am a resident of the East Side and received this from Sharon Byrne, sent to members/friends of the M. C. A: John Palminteri just called – there was a shooting at the corner of Olive and Carillo tonight. Victim is young male, in the ambulance now, looks to be in critical conditions, CPR being administered. The area is sealed off at present. There has been increased activity across the city in the past month, folks. It starts with scrawls and vandalism, and escalates into fights and assaults. Sometimes, it escalates really fast and becomes very dangerous, as it did tonight. Please keep watch, and call the police immediately if you see suspicious activity in the area. This was awfully close to the high school. Sharon Byrne Executive Director, Milpas Community Association
COMMENT 376425P	2013-02-19 10:07 PM
12P: Agreed. And the HUGE difference between facts and rabid imagination in SB is largely SBPD PR.
COMMENT 376458P	2013-02-20 07:07 AM
He died. Has been identified as a man from Ventura. So sad.
FLICKA	2013-02-20 08:40 AM
Why can people be so sure all Hispanics are from Mexico? A woman here in Carp was ragging on a man, "I've been here 20 yrs and you people come and ruin the place." When he replied he was 9th generation in Carpinteria, she shut up and walked away.
COMMENT 376511P	2013-02-20 09:28 AM
Did the kid die? He was a kid, a " young man" on a bicycle! I just wonder how he is doing or if another mother lost another son last night... And for what, really?
COMMENT 376625P	2013-02-20 11:53 AM
I didn't know about it until the 11 p.m. news, but I do know that the ambulance was not using a siren when it went to Cottage... I thought the worst when I saw the news footage.
COMMENT 376873P	2013-02-20 07:15 PM
As long as there are more guns floating around this largely weapons producing country with 9 million people under or unemployed, there will be more gun violence. I would never own a gun because I was taught that "violence begets violence" and I believe it. It just makes sense, if you look at the physical reality of it. Two out of four that I know who have guns in the home, were victims of gun violence due to theft and suicide. Nice. Without those guns in the home, there would be one more person alive and one less criminal with a gun in his hand. (Criminals usually steal their guns from all you nice people who own them). A gun is not an effective replacement for a weak and unimaginative mind.

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