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Update by Santa Barbara Police Department
On April 12, 2020, at 1:50 P.M., the Santa Barbara Police Department responded to shots fired in the vicinity of Punta Gorda Street and Salinas Street, in the City. Evidence collected at the scene, including several spent shell casings, suggests the involved parties who were in different vehicles, had a physical skirmish, shots were fired, then each drove away. There were no reported injuries.
Shortly after the incident, the Police Department was able to locate one potentially involved vehicle. Officers conducted a high-risk stop of three occupants in the 1300 Block of Santa Barbara Street.
Those three were detained for questioning. Each lived outside the City. The vehicle was taken by Police for evidence processing.
The larger context of the incident remains under investigation. Preliminarily, it does not appear to be gang-related.
There’s a report of a drive-by shooting near Old Coast Highway and South Salinas Street. There were shots were fired, unknown if anyone is down per SBPD. Units are responding code 3 (lights and sirens) and code 33 (clear radio traffic for emergency only).
You said twice no human victims. I hope no animals were hurt either. Let them hurt each other as they’d like but leave the poor animals out if it.
At least they are wearing masks…
That is quite far from Salinas and Indio Muerto!
Sounds like a lot of serious activity between westside and eastside participants lately.
I guess the good news is that by using a gun they were still able to maintain social distancing. It would have been much different had a knife been used.
I dont think this is a gang issue, according to the latest report it is not. I have gone to one of the local sporting goods stores and have witnessed lines of non-minority men picking up their new weapons. I hope thatthe implication here is NOT that minorities were even involved in this incident. We must all be carefull with our presumtions, certainly always.
1:55 – So, because you saw “non-minority men” buying weapons, that means this did not involve minorities? Did you see the gun purchasing people take their weapons over to this street and start a shootout? Do you know those men were “non-minority?” A lot of presumptions for a comment that ends with a warning about presumptions.
This is not related to gang or minorities at this point.
So sad and frightening … just a few weeks back there was a fatal stabbing near Figuero and Olive by the high school. So many would not choose the gang life if they were successful in school early on. Very hard to break the cycle but literacy, poverty and the school to prison pipeline are factors in this senseless violence, and these terrible choices and tragic loss of life. Education and literacy at early age pulls people out of poverty and hardship into independence, success and contentment. There is still great disparity in how we allocate resources in our schools. The schools that qualify for free lunches have the worst reading scores like Cleveland where only 13% of the 4th graders are at grade level. By 9th 74% of those will still struggle and many drop out and are on the path to incarceration and a life of hardship and sadness.