Posted on 03/09/2018 12:22:13 PM PST by MeganC
An armed man took three hostages during an "active shooter situation" at a California veterans home Friday afternoon, a fire official said.
Earlier, it emerged the veterans home was on lockdown after reports of shots fired.
The Napa County Sheriff’s Office said officers responded to the Veterans Home of California in Yountville around 10:45 a.m. local time and a shelter-in-place order was issued.
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Will they also blame Netflix on account of the Punisher series?
They hurt his feelings when he asked for a date?
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Here we go again, another shooter loaded deliberately with psychotropic drugs.
This has Deep State written all over it.
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Yountville is looneyville USA.
Its a place where vets are cast into a big garbage can to be ignored until they die.
Its home to headquarters of organized crime of California, and every kind of leftist loon imaginable.
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>> “Unless, of course, the 3 were specifically targeted!” <<
Thank You Captain Obvious!
Someone is always targeted in these mass shooting events.
Its always a political life saver for some Democrat official (like Tucson, got a judge out of Obama’s way)
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Apparently all this took place about 10:30 am and it wasn’t until
around 6 pm that the police entered the room where the shooter and
murdered females were in.
California Highway Patrol Assistant Chief Chris Childs, of the
Golden Gate Division, said officers entered the room where the
hostages were being held around 6 p.m. and found the bodies.
Exactly when the hostages and gunman died was unclear, the
San Francisco Chronicle reported.
They waiting to go in ?
So so sad. God rest the souls of those three beautiful women. They laid down their lives for our Vets! “Greater love hath no one.”
Where’s Matt Dillon when you need him. It’s one thing to be careful and keep your head down. It’s another to just wait ‘til you’re sure it’s “safe”. Coward County sheriff deputies did the same thing.
Hostage crisis prompts California police union to ask for weapons*
BY ADAM ASHTON, aashton@sacbee.com
March 09, 2018 05:31 PM, Updated March 10, 2018 07:36 PM
A hostage crisis at a state veterans home on Friday prompted a California law enforcement union to repeat its appeal to arm the officers who provide security at state hospitals and veterans’ facilities.
Fewer than nine unarmed state public safety officers work at the Yountville Veterans Home in Napa County, where a man armed with a rifle exchanged gunfire with police and took three employees of a veterans counseling program hostage.
The California State Law Enforcement Association, a union that represents a variety of public safety employees, released a statement on Friday afternoon urging the California Department of Veterans Affairs to begin arming officers at Yountville.
“Despite being unarmed, they are tasked with the responsibility of protecting a very large campus of residents, staff, and visitors 24 hours a day, and local law enforcement relies on these public safety officers as the front-line security for the hospital,” the statement read.
In 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have required the Department of State Hospitals to begin arming CSLEA-represented officers at its sites. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate and by a 78-1 margin in the Assembly.
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http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article204447809.html
*Albert Wong, the killer apparently came into the building with Ammo hanging around his neck and a rifle in his hand. Then, he told the other vets, they could leave.
Next, he called out the names of the 3 women, whom he killed later and took them to a second floor room and then killed them. One was pregnant. Then he killed himself.
If there were armed guards, they might have prevented the slaughter.
However/again:,In 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have required the Department of State Hospitals to begin arming CSLEA-represented officers at its sites. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate and by a 78-1 margin in the Assembly.
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