Marin shooting baffles victim’s family

Wounded woman was trying to get boyfriend into rehab

McCann was trying to check her boyfriend into the Helen Vine Recovery Center early Monday in Marin County so he could get help with addiction.

But rather than entering the inpatient rehab center and starting on a road to recovery, the boyfriend, 37-year-old Davance Lamar Reed, went on a shooting spree, killing one man and seriously wounding McCann and another victim, the woman’s father told The Chronicle on Tuesday.

Family members of the victims were working to make sense of the tragedy as they visited McCann, 30, and the other survivor, Anthony DoBrittany minguez Mansapit, 32, in the intensive care unit at Marin General Hospital, where both victims are in critical condition.

Nathan Lamont Hill, a 52year-old Vallejo resident, was pronounced dead at the scene the day before.

“How do you shoot somebody you say you love?” McCann’s father, Richard McCann, said in an interview at his daughter’s Sausalito apartment. “She was trying to help him.”

The tragedy unfolded around 1:30 a.m., after Brittany McCann tried to take Reed to the recovery center on Smith Ranch Road outside San Rafael, her father said.

The two got into an argument, and Reed walked out of the facility. When he came back in, the shooting started, Richard McCann said.

Mansapit is an employee at the rehab facility. Hill’s family members asked for privacy and declined to be interviewed.

Richard McCann described his daughter’s own battle with demons — which included stints in jail — and how she turned her life around. She has since received a high school diploma and a college degree. She was even awarded a certificate by the Marin

County Probation Department for “successfully moving forward” with her life, which she had framed on her living room wall.

Brittany McCann now works as a drug counselor for HealthRight 360, a San Francisco clinic that provides help to people with substance abuse disorders or mental illnesses. She and Reed have a 7-year-old son. The boy is now staying with his grandfather and aunt.

Richard McCann said his daughter had tried to protect herself from Reed’s dangerous tendencies, and that she had recently asked him to stay with her. The father began splitting his time between Arizona and California, crashing at his daughter’s Sausalito apartment on weekends.

Monday marked at least the second time his daughter had tried to take her boyfriend to a rehab facility, he said.

“You try to help people get better — I guess this is what happens when they don’t,” he said.

Reed has a long criminal history, including drug and weapons charges, records show.

After shooting up the facility, Reed took off in Mansapit’s vehicle, prompting a regionwide manhunt for the killer, officials said.

An hour later, deputies more than 30 miles away in Cotati spotted a vehicle driving erratically in northbound lanes of Highway 101. The car was “unable to maintain his speed” — going fast, then slow — swerving between lanes, Sonoma County sheriff Sgt. Spencer Crum said. The vehicle didn’t have a rear license plate or a working taillight.

Deputies at the time were unaware of the shooting in Marin County and had no idea the man behind the wheel was a potentially dangerous suspect, Crum said.

When deputies attempted to pull him over, the driver fled, leading to a pursuit with speeds reaching 100 mph. Ten miles down the road, authorities disabled the vehicle with spike strips, prompting Reed to pull over and give up, Crum said.

He was taken into custody without incident.

Reed is being held at a Sonoma County jail on a no-bail murder warrant out of Marin County, authorities said.