Posted on 06/28/2025 8:15:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The homeless man accused of a shooting spree in Santa Monica has been charged with three counts of attempted murder amid a wave of violence from transients that has Los Angeles residents on edge.
David John Hairston II, 31, allegedly ambushed and shot a police officer at a pedestrian mall in the seaside enclave on Wednesday, just days after allegedly shooting two teens who were riding a self-driving taxi, according to prosecutors.
Hairston was arrested after a citywide manhunt; he faces various weapons charges on top of the attempted murders, with a maximum sentence of 104 years to life in prison, the LA District Attorney’s office said.
The day after the Santa Monica shooting, a transient man jumped a gardener working outside at a gated home in nearby Brentwood, one of the wealthiest parts of Los Angeles.
The shirtless suspect randomly approached the gardener and knocked him in the head with some kind of pole, according to Ring camera footage obtained by ABC7.
Meanwhile, residents in the Beverly Grove neighborhood, near Beverly Hills, were complaining about an abandoned apartment complex that had been recently taken over by around 20 vagrants.
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Getting what you vote for department, good and hard.
America! The new theme park for Sicko Walkers.
He'll probably be back on the streets in an hour after being hit by a judge with a $25 bail cost. It's LA, remember?
Homeless guy.
In California.
With a gun.
Gosh, it’s almost like bad people ignore gun control laws.
It’s almost like gun control only disarms the law-abiding.
Vagrants?
Vagrants?
Pretty soon they will start calling them hobos, and, and bums!
What uncivility! used to describe the unhoused.
If only California had reasonable gun control.
How long must it remain so until the “shoot to kill” ethos finally prevails. Tough medicine, indeed. So many “bleeding hearts” in SM and elsewhere to overcome…but until and unless —- this will continue with the gubmint content to “kick the can down the road” and nothing will ever get fixed.
At the very least Kalifornia must invoke the Castle Doctrine and repeal most of the oppressive gun laws which only affect the law-abiding among us.
Where and how does a homeless guy get a gun, especially in California?
“solving homelessness” is big business, very lucrative. Whole cities, counties and even states are in on it.
I saw a statistic a while ago — which might not be accurate, but then again it might be entirely accurate — that California, on an annual basis, was spending about $200,000 a year for each homeless individual. Bureaucrats get rich, homeless people still live in cardboard boxes.
To solve homelessness, make it a crime puinshable by 10-20 years to grift on it, and it will be solved real quick.
And does he just hang it on his stolen shopping cart?
David John Hairston II
A class act.
RE: jumped a gardener working outside. In real life.
Really? A trigger for me to reference the Charles Bronson lookalike Robert Bronzi and the 2021 revenge movie The Gardener. Good guy talented military veteran teaches the home invaders a lesson using martial arts and gardening tools.
There is a new movie totally unrelated using that title. That’s wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4KmFs8X44
“An eye for an eye isn’t just revenge. It helps prevents future crimes.”-—radio host.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1qWWyRztgE
Could be a transient from another state, could have legally owned it before ending up on the streets, or number one way is breaking into someone’s home and stealing it.
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