Posted on 11/18/2022 6:48:58 PM PST by AbolishCSEU
VALLEJO, Calif. — Two people were arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of a fellow squatter who was shot and killed by a California property owner, authorities said. The property owner was impaled by a sword during the confrontation. A witness told the newspaper that the property owner, identified as Curt Lind, 80, came to his mobile home covered in blood. “He came banging on my door with a sword sticking through him,” Patrick McMillan, a tenant who lives in a mobile home on the property, told the Chronicle. McMillan told the newspaper that Lind was his landlord and best friend.
The names of the suspects and the person who died were not released, KTVU reported. The Solano County District Attorney’s Office will determine whether to file formal murder charges, according to the television station.
One of the people shot, a 31-year-old Vallejo resident, died at the scene, according to the Chronicle. The other person, who is 27, was taken to an area hospital, along with Lind. Both were in critical condition, police said.
The confrontation apparently was the result of an eviction battle that had recently intensified, the newspaper reported. For years, Lind had been attempting to evict a group of people whom his family claimed were not paying the rent, KTVU reported. Lind had bought the property, placing 20-foot trailers and shipping containers on the land so he could rent them to people who were unable to afford the cost of housing in Vallejo, McMillan told the Chronicle. Lind also lived on the property.
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Lind has a “sword sticking through him,” kills one of the guys that attacked him, and teh DA is thinking of charging Lind?? Sounds like utter insanity. Or California.
Renters can be absolute monsters. I think the ratio of monster renters to monster landlord is about 50 to one.
20-foot trailers and shipping containers
Sounds pretty upscale ... but then again it is California.
Probably time to outlaw renting housing. Day x Day only.
Poor old guy. Still working as property manager at 80, and this is what he gets. Certain evictions should be done with a sherrif or armed security guard at your side.
I’ve been hearing about more and more sword attacks from the homeless population. Is there some misguided nonprofit organization supplying the crazed homeless with Free Samuri Swords?
First aid question: Guy comes to your door with a sword through him. Do you remove the sword or leave in in for the medics that should be on the way?
Media “Samurai swords” are about as accurate as their “AR-15’s are assault weapons” claims.
Real Samurai swords value would buy a nice house.
What these vermin are slashing about with are very cheap Chinese/Pakistani knock-off’s.
Look for Crapifornia to ban them soon.
After all, we must punish the 99.9% innocent for the actions of the .1% criminals!
Leave it in.
There can be only one!
DO NOT remove the sword or any other impaled object!
If it is in an artery or heavily blood supplied organ, it would be like popping the cork on a warm champagne bottle!
I actually know Curtis and am sorry this happened to him.
It’s a small world.
Never remove an impaled object.
He used to have a tugboat in the marina, that’s how we met. Awful story.
Never?
I’m not sure that is what happened.
The article is written in 202os’ “word salad” style where you can’t tell who did what to who or what the result was, or even how many people were involved. But it says that the two arrested were arrested for the death of a “fellow squatter”, which implies that neither of the two was the property owner.
Nowhere in the posted part of the article do they affirmatively state that the impaling did not kill the property owner, which should have been established in the same sentence that first mentions the impaling.
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