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Two Killed In Postal Facility Shooting In Goleta (CA)
CBS 2 / KCAL 9 ^ | 1/30/2006 | Associated Press

Posted on 01/30/2006 10:09:58 PM PST by JennysCool

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) -- A Santa Barbara County Fire captain says two people are dead and at least two others wounded in a shooting at a postal facility in Goleta.

Fire Captain Keith Cullom says the two injured were taken to the hospital in critical condition. He was not able to confirm if there are additional victims.

Cullom says the gunman remains at large while one of the victims was close to the building entrance and was pulled out by a paramedic.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; donutwatch; goingpostal; goleta; postal; shooting
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Scarce details at the moment.
1 posted on 01/30/2006 10:09:59 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: JennysCool

News said it was a sorting facility. Very strange.


2 posted on 01/30/2006 10:11:59 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg (an ambassador in bonds)
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To: JennysCool

Yike! Still at large? :-(


3 posted on 01/30/2006 10:12:34 PM PST by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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Wonder what the shooter's screen name at DU is. I know there were upset today but to go postal....whew.

Seriesly, some of those paramedics equal a soldier in battle with their heroics. Ping me for a catch-up?

4 posted on 01/30/2006 10:13:31 PM PST by daybreakcoming (May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
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What is it about working for the US postal service?

Maybe it's that gunmen can kill with impunity, since they know none of their victims are going to be packing.


5 posted on 01/30/2006 10:17:08 PM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
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Seriesly, some of those paramedics equal a soldier in battle with their heroics.

That's for sure. Will try to ping for updates, but hitting the hay pretty soon. I'm sure there will be a LOT more on this by morning.

6 posted on 01/30/2006 10:18:29 PM PST by JennysCool (Non-Y2K-Compliant)
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Heard this on my tv news at 10. I never understood the postal aspect. I've generally found the DMV to raise far more ire than a postal facility.


7 posted on 01/30/2006 10:18:49 PM PST by umgud (uncompassionate conservative)
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To: Luke Skyfreeper


Good thinking.


8 posted on 01/30/2006 10:18:59 PM PST by onyx
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To: JennysCool

I rode my bike past that facility at about 8:50 tonight. When I left Kmart at 9:15 or so (a block away from the office), I heard the sirens zooming past. Scary.


9 posted on 01/30/2006 10:22:36 PM PST by UncleDick
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What is it about working for the US postal service?

Unions.

10 posted on 01/30/2006 10:25:41 PM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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To: UncleDick

Wow! Too close!


11 posted on 01/30/2006 10:25:45 PM PST by JennysCool (Non-Y2K-Compliant)
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Is this the postal facility between UCSB's Francisco Torres dormitories and K-Mart along Storke Road?


12 posted on 01/30/2006 10:25:50 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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That post office, on Storke Road?
13 posted on 01/30/2006 10:26:49 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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Yes.


14 posted on 01/30/2006 10:26:58 PM PST by UncleDick
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Prayers going out....

Friends in Goleta. Calling in the morn.

Too good of a place for this BS.

15 posted on 01/30/2006 10:28:12 PM PST by IntheHillsGolden (You pass through places ...and places pass through you.........)
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Whoa, my folks live nearby, and I used to bike the same route as a Gaucho way back when...


16 posted on 01/30/2006 10:29:36 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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Maybe it's that gunmen can kill with impunity, since they know none of their victims are going to be packing. they've got a tough union behind them.

(sarcasm)

17 posted on 01/30/2006 10:31:51 PM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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Watching for updates...
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ON THE NET...

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_031005926.html


18 posted on 01/30/2006 10:31:54 PM PST by Cindy
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three dead now...1 critical


19 posted on 01/30/2006 10:32:41 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: DTogo
I live about a half mile away in IV. Rode my bike down Storke to get to Kmart, but decided to take El Colegio (which runs parallel) back home. Heard sirens heading towards the facility right around 9:15 (I suspect that the shooting took place a few minutes earlier, in the 9:05-9:10 range).

At around 9:20 I saw two police cycles jetting down El Colegio but didn't know what was happening until about 20 min. ago.

It's basically a large sorting facility set back from the road a few hundred feet. Can't imagine what went down there.
20 posted on 01/30/2006 10:33:14 PM PST by UncleDick
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