Santa Rosa used to be a nice place to live.
Drugs and gangs have claimed over the last 25yrs or so.Moorland Ave heavily crime infested part of town.
Being wine country high incidence of drunk drivers and illegals without licenses.
Remember the story of Ramon Salcido who killed his wife and stabbed his 3 little girls of which one survived?
There seemed to be a problem with the Sonoma Cnty Sheriffs over that also.
Did the boy deserve to be killed with 7 shots? Absolutely not!Why not just one to the knee? Why not some kind of mace etc.. to disable him?
Cops have been too trigger happy lately.
They will pay the price on this one as will the county of Sonoma.
Agree with you that the sheriff’s deputy was hasty on this one (and in my opinion it rises to the level of manslaughter) but I have to take issue with your characterization of southwest Santa Rosa. I live about a mile from where this happened. I don’t go down that street often but like much of this immediate area, it is a mix of very small houses (many from the 1940’s), small businesses and open fields that used to be part of local farms. (We still have some small farmers in this neighborhood.) High number of Hispanics, both legal and not, but a minimal amount of gangbangers. The real “killer” gangs in this area are the Vietnamese gangs and they don’t live in this particular neighborhood.
As for Ramon Salcido, that was an ugly crime but the little girl who survived it is about 20 now. If we’re going to cite 20 year old crimes from any neighborhood, we could be here a long time.