Shooting/Simi Valley2005Jun02
So some fellow drove up here to Simi Valley from L.A. and holed up with a gun at the local Wal-Mart — Shooting suspect holed up in Wal-Mart — Shooting spree a shock for California community. The man later committed suicide in the store.
Terrible.
All this happened on Monday/Tuesday, and I totally missed it.
That Wal-Mart is about 4 miles away. And though we avoid it, I have been there twice.
leahpeah
June 2, 2005 8:47am
we didn’t totally miss it. remember when we were driving home and all the cops passed us going east and i said, ‘glad we aren’t going that way..’?
Joe Crawford
June 2, 2005 8:49am
Oh yeah!
**slaps forehead**
Greg Duncan
June 2, 2005 9:14am
It was the helicopters hovering over my house (and seemingly right outside my bathroom window) that clued me into that something was going on… Otherwise I’d have probably missed it too.
Can’t a guy do some “reading” in peace? Oh sorry, TMI… 🙂
Joe Crawford
June 2, 2005 9:18am
I do a lot of “reading” in there too Greg.
My grandparents in San Diego have a little sign in their bathroom which says _”No Reading During Peak Hours”_ — which always makes me smile. Because, well, it’s not really a joke. 🙂
Greg Duncan
June 2, 2005 12:10pm
lol…
Thogek
June 10, 2005 2:28pm
Yeah, the shooter’s first episode in central Thousand Oaks is just around a couple corners from a shopping center we’ve been to enough times to find it eerie. About five or six miles from home. Scary. The kind of thing whose TV depiction makes skin crawl.