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.
Good day.
The thing I don’t understand from reading it is -
(Assuming the suspects were outside the store wanted to get in), how can they smash the door front and ‘sending shattered glass out onto the sidewalk’?
It’s almost not worth leaving home anymore.
How about: “I went for the iPhone and now iGone.”
This is just sad. Apple stores are probably the most docile places to go. They are busy but by far nothing violent.
“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.”
Actually, no. Chula Vista is a less-than-upscale area, often referred to locally as “Chula Juana” - a reference to nearby Tijuana, Mexico. Tijuana is a pretty rough city. It’s a border town, if you have money you can find pretty much anything there.
Apple would have been wise to stick to Fashion Valley, La Jolla and other nice areas. I’m sure the Chula Vista store struggles profit-wise compared with those in better locations.
Posting half cocked is the hallmark of a great poster. LOL
I do it all the time.
Because, they sucked...at being robbers.
I sincerely doubt the manager of the store was armed. Most insurance for stores specifically state that employees are not to stop thefts. That’s why clerks at Walmart and elsewhere are terminated if they pursue or enter into a fight with a robber.
And, that’s why they have armed guards who did his job in this case.
I thought half a million dollar homes was low-income housing for California.
Once again the description of the perps was accidentally omitted.
The possibility of a gun battle is the only reason I leave home ;P
His last words:
iDied.
Just assume they were Amish Dutch.
(I thought I was the only one...)
I am sure that Apple will see to it that the armed guard will be fired.
When a very large plat of glass is hit and shatters the majority of the glass falls straight down. Which means the glass falls to both sides of the window frame. The article only observes the one side on the sidewalk. This is my best guess.
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