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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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And this, ladies and gentlemen is why I don't go to my local Walmart....
1 posted on 05/15/2014 8:05:57 AM PDT by null and void
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what in the world


2 posted on 05/15/2014 8:06:54 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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The cops would have found the crowbar imbedded in this jerks skull.


3 posted on 05/15/2014 8:09:10 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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Judas Priest


4 posted on 05/15/2014 8:10:55 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: null and void

“It’s an act of love.” - Jeb Bush


5 posted on 05/15/2014 8:11:54 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Judas Priest

She was "Breaking the Law."

6 posted on 05/15/2014 8:13:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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And that is why I don't go to Walmart unarmed.
7 posted on 05/15/2014 8:13:28 AM PDT by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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It’s why I don’t go to my local Wal-Mart without my own self-defense crowbar.


8 posted on 05/15/2014 8:13:32 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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Satan is real.


9 posted on 05/15/2014 8:15:00 AM PDT by mylife
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OK, mind races, but here is a scenario for which I admittedly have no direct evidence, dad (father of 4 year old) and loony tune are are a “couple” and loony tune is jealous of the way 4 year has daddy wrapped around her little finger.

I deal with this day in and day out, the new romantic partner is jealous of the same sex child. I tell these morons that the child comes first, the child was there first, you knew he/she had children when you got into this, if you can’t handle it, find someone with no children, they will never put you first, it is not cool to compete with a child.

People are such jerks


10 posted on 05/15/2014 8:16:14 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: tractorman

If I see anyone carrying a deadly instrument, my hand is in my pocket flicking off the safety of my handgun. This would have been a “clean up on aisle 9” event if I was the father, even if CCW is banned in Commiefornia. I’ll take my chances with the judge and jury.


11 posted on 05/15/2014 8:16:59 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: yldstrk

Loony tune is just one of the local homeless. There may be no more connection to the attacked girl and her father than they were in the same place at the same time as loony tune when loony tune’s fuse burned down to the main charge.


12 posted on 05/15/2014 8:20:51 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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there may be no connection but then again, most assaults are by people you know


13 posted on 05/15/2014 8:21:45 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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we know it as the Mexican Macy's ?
but I will buy ammo there as needed...
14 posted on 05/15/2014 8:22:52 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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They have ammo?


15 posted on 05/15/2014 8:23:22 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: yldstrk

True. When someone is murdered, the first suspect is always the surviving spouse.

Who else knows you well enough to want you dead???


16 posted on 05/15/2014 8:24:42 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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Teen or woman?
The writer can’t seen to figure it out.


17 posted on 05/15/2014 8:26:10 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: yldstrk

I think the fact that she lived in a “homeless encampment” probably has more to do with it. And she had been “contacted by the police before” for something they refused to discuss.


18 posted on 05/15/2014 8:26:27 AM PDT by livius
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To: DCBryan1

Better to be judged by 12 rather than carried by 6.


19 posted on 05/15/2014 8:26:46 AM PDT by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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To: longfellow

You and me both. My youngest is a 4 year old girl, and man or woman, someone tries or does that, it’s time to meet God.


20 posted on 05/15/2014 8:27:33 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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