Police call Monday's stabbing of downtown Santa Cruz business owner 'unprovoked and random'

santacruzsentinel.com ^ | 05/10/2012 | Stephen Baxter, J.M. Brown and Cathy Kelly - Santa Cruz Sentinel

[massmike]

Friends of downtown business owner Shannon Kathleen Collins mourned her loss Tuesday after police identified her as the victim of Monday's "unprovoked, random" stabbing.

Longtime friend Timerie Gordon said those who knew Collins were "very angry and sad and trying to make sense of something that will never be sensible."

Collins, 38, co-owner of Camouflage on Pacific Avenue, was walking back from a hairdresser's appointment when police say she was "savagely" attacked about 11:50 a.m. on the 300 block of Broadway.

Minutes later, after a number of calls to 911, police arrested 43-year-old Charles Anthony Edwards III of San Francisco on suspicion of murder. Authorities declined to say how the encounter started and what led to her vicious slaying.

"She didn't know him and was not involved with him in any way," Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark said. "It was just the misfortune of fate that she crossed paths with him."

[Nifster]

now that;s the look of a sober man /s

[livius]

I’d say crack. Crack users have very scary red eyes.

[agere_contra]

Did he yell “Justice for Trayvon”?

[Jay Santos CP]

This is conjecture, but I think that the killer would have looked "out of place" in Santa Cruz. But the eloi of Santa Cruz have been carefully trained not to profile. Ms. Collins may well have smiled, said hi, or just otherwise failed to keep a safe distance from this feral animal.

There's been great effort in producing our current society. Didn't just happen.

[Tigerized]

Black on white violent crime?

Nothing to see here. Move along.

[rawcatslyentist]

More likely booze.

If he'd been stoned the only thing he would have attacked is a bag of chips and cookies.

[Future Snake Eater]

Could be.

[expat2]

Last time I was in downtown Santa Cruz, it was full of homeless and druggy types.

[Carry_Okie]

I’ve met that guy while taking photographs of the wildlife on Pacific Avenue.

[golf lover]

Another one of Obama’s would be sons?

[SZonian]

"I'm a born suspect! Sad but true, people see color first and assume that I'm up to no-good."

And I'm a born racist! Sad but true, people see color first and assume that I'm responsible for slavery, racism, inequality, etc.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“It’s easily the sexiest store in Santa Cruz, a town that has in recent times verged on being sexless, being largely more focused on feminist subtexts than feminine sauciness.

“Camouflage has since maintained a high standard of quality and class—plus a generous indulgence in the explicit side of naughty retail in the backroom. They specialize in the stylish and the sensual, so whether you’re out hunting for stylish new top, a delicate camisole or the new multispeed Super Vibro Deluxe 2000, Camouflage is an exciting place to find a sexier you.”

— Santa Cruz store review

[GOP Poet]

Bookmark

[clamper1797]

Obama’s son

[martin_fierro]

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[Vendome]

I’ve been in Camouflage and I recall meeting the owner 7 or 8 years ago the last time I went.

Too bad. I thought she was a nice lady.

[Carry_Okie]

She must have been straight, and therefore, a BREEDER! (Gasp!)

She deserved to die. /Marxist eugenic population reduction cult

[EggsAckley]

Odd where she was found. Quite a distance from the store. Still within walking distance, but on a weekday, she was a long way away from the store.

Hmmmmm...............

[AngelesCrestHighway]

"It was just the misfortune of fate that she crossed paths with him."... For those moments when it's just the misfortune of fate...

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

There was an interesting response to the kidnap and murder of a San Jose shopkeeper's son in 1933. The victim was a nice young man by the name of Brooke Hart: Early the next morning, Sunday, two duck hunters found the badly decomposed body south of the San Mateo Bridge near Hayward, California. Word went out immediately throughout northern California. Incessantly throughout the day and into the evening, radio stations issued inflammatory announcements that a lynching would occur that night in St. James Park in San Jose. By 9:00 p.m., a mob estimated by the press to range anywhere from 5,000 to 15,000 men, women, and children were jammed into the park, with an estimated 3,000 abandoned vehicles left on streets nearby. Governor Rolph was in regular telephonic communication with Raymond Cato, whom he had appointed to head the California Highway Patrol. Cato was ensconced in the home of a Rolph political ally and neighbor in the mountains west of San Jose with an open phone line to the jail. As the assault on the jail commenced about 9:00 p.m., Governor Rolph canceled a planned trip to the Western Governors' conference in Boise, Idaho to prevent his chief political rival, Lieutenant Governor Frank Merriam, from calling out the National Guard to stop the lynchings. By midnight, November 27, thousands had gathered outside the jail, while the sheriff's deputies fired tear gas into the crowd in an attempt to disperse them. However, the crowd became angrier and larger. The nearby construction site at the post office (intended to replace the previous post office, which is now the San Jose Museum of Art) was raided for materials to make a battering ram. Emig ordered his officers to abandon the bottom two floors of the jail, where Thurmond and Holmes were being held. The mob, by this time estimated at 6,000-10,000 (other reports are of 3,000-5,000), stormed the jail, took Holmes and Thurmond across the street to St. James Park, and hanged them. Child movie star Jackie Coogan, a friend of Brooke Hart from Santa Clara University, was reported to be one of the mob that prepared and held the rope for lynching.

The people lynching the criminals were afraid that the courts would allow the criminals to escape justice by pleading insanity.