Posted on 04/04/2011 11:49:55 AM PDT by verum ago
An armed security guard, hired by Apple to protect one of its San Diego stores, confronted and killed a smash and grab suspect in a gun battle early Monday.
One person is dead and two people have been taken into custody following the shooting at Otay Ranch Towne Center in the Eastlake section of Chula Vista according to police.
The Apple store manager was working inside when just before 7 a.m. the guard confronted two men and a woman. The suspects had smashed into the store's front doors, sending shattered glass out onto the sidewalk. The guard told police a gun battle started when one suspect produced a handgun. More than a dozen yellow evidence markers were on the ground just outside the store's front door.
Investigators said the three suspects got into a silver Acura and crashed into a light pole and a post before stopping on the curb outside Banana Republic. The passenger side door was left open with what appeared to be a body still inside.
Police confirm the unidentified man was shot and killed by the security guard. The second man and woman ran from the mall heading east, police said.
Patrol cars blocked the intersection of Eastlake Parkway and Birch Road leading into the outdoor mall. Chula Vista police officers, U.S. Border Patrol agents and San Diego County sheriff's deputies searched the neighborhood near the mall.
Around 8 a.m., law enforcement officers with guns drawn approached a section of townhomes in the Winding Walk community east of the shopping center.
Officers entered an alley between two buildings and pulled out two people. A female was cuffed and walked to a patrol car. The second, a man, was originally cuffed and patted down. Then, he was treated by medical personnel for a gunshot wound in the buttocks before being taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.
The suspects were positively identified by Apple store employees, according to Chula Vista police.
The Apple store security guard was not injured, police said. Eastlake High School, Wolf Canyon Elementary School, Veterans Elementary School and Olympian High School were placed on lockdown according to district officials. Those lockdowns were lifted by 9:30 a.m. Mater Dei Catholic High School, first reported to be on lockdown, reported that it was back in session as well.
I also guess they need to hire better people, seeing as the two arrested were employees...
I think the suspects were identified BY Apple store employees, not AS Apple store employees.
Its good to hear that the guard came out on top in this incident.
The story says they were id’d BY employees, not AS employees. So I guess those employees in the store at the time of robbery id’d the perps who were caught in the alley.
I hope that the two surviving perps are charged with murder.
Kudos to the guard. It’s obvious this guy was the real thing, not your run-of-the-mill Paul Blart rent-a-cop.
The fact that an Apple iStore needs armed guards tells us something about the state of affairs in San Diego. Apple stores are found in upscale shopping drags. Not in the hood.
Who said they were employees? The article stated they were positively identified BY employees.
If they had been employees, they would have known the guard was armed...........;^)
He was looking for an iPhone, and instead got an iShoot;)
lol 3 replies telling me I misread it just in the time I took to slowly type a reply saying that I had misread it.
(And I deserve every one) :)
Naturally not one of us would ever post over-quickly like that. This is the FreeRepublic where everyone calmly and coldly posts with deliberation. /s
Happens to me all the time!.............
The core of the story was related to us by witness Granny Smith.
iBullet(s) to the iCenter-of-iMass via iGlock.
One got shot in his iButt!.............
This is why they should have stolen a car.
Probably went right to the address of the getaway car.
I always thought the armed guards in Verizon, ATT, Apple stores etc were to keep disgruntled customers in line when they were receiving ‘shoddy service’.
BTW ID’d by employees, not as....sarc///sarc... get my chance to ‘beat the dead horse’ <: <: <:
So the suspects didn't manage to reach their iPad.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.