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San Jose teen arrested after crowbar assault on child, 4, at Walmart
Mercury News ^ | 05/15/2014 05:57:31 AM PDT | Katie Nelson

Posted on 05/15/2014 8:05:57 AM PDT by null and void


SAN JOSE -- An 18-year-old woman was arrested after she allegedly hit a 4-year-old girl and her father with a crowbar inside a Walmart late Tuesday morning, police said.

Maria Garate, a San Jose resident, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after she walked into the Walmart, located at 777 Story Road, around 10:59 a.m. and struck the girl and her father, police said.

Garate approached the pair and without warning hit the 4-year-old girl over the head with a crowbar, according to a police statement. Garate attempted to hit the girl again, police said, but the father, who has not been identified, stepped in to protect his daughter and was struck instead.

The incident took place just over a half mile from a well-known homeless encampment known as "the Jungle." Police said they had contacted Garate there before, but they could not confirm Garate was a resident of the encampment and did not say why they had come into contact before.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: california; crime
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To: null and void

Guilty. Hang the feral biotch.


41 posted on 05/15/2014 9:59:16 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Government by Gun Point.)
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To: null and void

Assume this is her. Wonder what the “no bail” means? (cough)
Notice the prior contact.
Maria Garate booking date 05/13/2014
http://eservices.sccgov.org/ovr/find_inmate.do


42 posted on 05/15/2014 10:00:57 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl

http://www.scscourt.org/court_divisions/criminal/index_search.asp


43 posted on 05/15/2014 10:05:50 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: null and void

You’d have no problem with my local Walmart. It’s in the middle of a large commercial park area called Turkey Creek where there’s nothing but a large mass of businesses, most of them consumer oriented. The only practical way to get to it is by bicycle or private car. It’s essentially a giant open air business mall covering many hundreds of acres. There’s little or no public transit access and no rail transit.


44 posted on 05/15/2014 10:21:31 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: DCBryan1

No doubt, in the short time since you posted this heresy, you’ve suffered a Tragic Boating Accident and no longer own a hand gun.


45 posted on 05/15/2014 10:23:35 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: machogirl

Doubtless we’ll have adjacent dorms...


46 posted on 05/15/2014 10:32:46 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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To: null and void

I call top bunk, beachside window.


47 posted on 05/15/2014 10:37:45 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: null and void
And this, ladies and gentlemen is why I don't go to my local Walmart....

yeah, this could never have happened at sears, J.C.Penneys, Sacs, Kohls,....you have another reason to not shop at Wal-Mart and it is probably as inane as this one.

48 posted on 05/15/2014 10:50:36 AM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all else)
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To: terycarl
This is my local Walmart.

I will go to other Walmarts, but not this one.

Capisce?

49 posted on 05/15/2014 11:05:00 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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To: DCBryan1
If I see anyone carrying a deadly instrument, my hand is in my pocket flicking off the safety of my handgun.

Free advice: (Take it for what its worth) Leave the safety ON until the piece is out of your pocket. Jus' sayin'

50 posted on 05/15/2014 11:35:34 AM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: null and void

I'd hit it until she bled out.

51 posted on 05/15/2014 11:36:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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I guess the crowbar was an assault weapon. It should be outlawed as dangerous, or made out of rubber.


52 posted on 05/15/2014 3:02:04 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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