San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
POLICE: ARGUMENT ENDS IN FATAL SHOOTING
A man was fatally shot Friday night during an altercation outside an apartment complex next to El Cajon Valley High School, El Cajon police said.
It happened about 10:20 p.m. on Dominguez Way, a short cul-de-sac off East Madison Avenue between the high school campus and North Mollison Avenue, El Cajon police Lt. Will Guerin said.
The victim and another man got into an argument outside the Dominguez Way Apartments, Guerin said. During the fight, one of the men pulled out a handgun and shot the victim at least once.
Officers found the injured man unconscious on the ground and began performing CPR until paramedics arrived, Guerin said. The vicim was taken by ambulance to a San Diego hospital, where he died.
He was believed to be in his late teens or early 20s, Guerin said. Police were still working to confirm his identity.
The shooter took off running and was last seen headed east along Madison. Only a vague description of him was available, Guerin said.
Anyone with information about the shooting was asked to call the department’s homicide tip line at (619) 441-5530.
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One teen stabbed, one shot in separate incidents
Two teenagers were injured, one in a shooting and the other in a stabbing, in the community of Nestor Friday night. San Diego police are working to determine if the two attacks are related.
The first victim, a 16-year-old boy, was shot in the right thigh around 11:40 p.m. while near the bus stop on Oro Vista Road south of Iris Avenue.
The victim wouldn’t provide any additional information about the attack, according to authorities. He was taken to a nearby hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening.
Shortly after, Chula Vista police notified officers in San Diego of a 19-year-old man who had been allegedly stabbed in the neck at an apartment complex near the bus stop earlier that night.
Two of the young man’s companions brought him to a hospital, but refused to provide investigators with details about the incident, police said.
Because of the 19-year-old’s condition, he was unable to say what happened, according to police. He was later taken to UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest for emergency surgery and is expected to survive.
The department’s Southern Division is investigating both incidents.
joshua.smith@sduniontribune.com Fire on outside wall of Dollar Tree quickly put out
Firefighters from San Diego and across the South Bay rushed Saturday to a two-alarm fire at a mini mall in Imperial Beach.
The exterior wall of a Dollar Tree was aflame when city fire crews arrived around 11:40 a.m. to the Palm Avenue store, according to officials interviewed by Onscenetv. A nearby Goodwill was quickly evacuated.
Imperial Beach firefighters promptly extinguished the fire, going so far as to cut away the exterior of the building with a chainsaw before hosing it down. Nobody was hurt.
The fire’s elevated status stemmed from fears that the building’s drop ceilings could’ve exploded in flames had the conflagration spread inside. Firefighters from San Diego, Coronado, National City and Chula Vista were also reportedly dispatched.
“Prior knowledge knows that we have a large void ceiling,” Jason Bell, fire captain with the Imperial Beach Fire-rescue Department, told Onscene TV. “A second alarm was pulled just in case it spread.”
The Sheriff’s Department’s bomb squad also responded. Agency officials said they’re investigating the possibility of arson. The entire area had been cleared by 2 p.m.
joshua.smith@sduniontribune.com Man allegedly followed woman, exposed himself
Sheriff ’s detectives on Friday arrested an Oceanside man suspected of following a Vista woman home earlier this week and then jumping out of his car nude and fondling himself, a sheriff’s sergeant said.
The incident happened around 1 p.m. Tuesday when the woman drove home to Vista after grocery shopping in Oceanside, San Diego sheriff ’s Sgt. Alfred Gathings wrote in a news release. When she arrived home, she realized she’d been followed by the man and called 911.
Sheriff’s deputies responded and searched the area, but were unable to locate the man at the time.
The victim’s mother reportedly wrote about the incident on social media and shared a photo she said her daughter took of the man. It showed a man standing outside the open door of a Nissan Altima who was wearing shoes and sunglasses but otherwise appeared to be nude, though the crotch area was censored. He also appeared to be touching his genitals.
Detectives used images of the incident to identify a 23-year-old Oceanside man as the suspect, Gathings wrote in the news release. The man allegedly admitted the act during an interview with detectives at his home.
On Friday, with a warrant to his search his home, sheriff’s detectives returned and arrested him on indecent exposure charges, according to Gathings.
alex.riggins@sduniontribune.com Girl, 16, killed when SUV crashes, flips on Interstate 5
A 16-year-old girl died after being thrown from an SUV that overturned during a crash Friday afternoon on Interstate 5 near Old Town, authorities said.
The victim was a passenger in the Nissan Pathfinder, California Highway Patrol spokesperson Officer Jesse Matias said. The driver, a 53-year-old Kansas woman, and a second passenger, described only as a male, were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
The single-vehicle rollover happened around 1:45 p.m. on north I-5 near Interstate 8. Matias said in a news release that officers are still investigating why the SUV veered off the freeway.
Paramedics took the girl to a hospital, where she died, Matias said. Her name was not released.
San Diego-area Highway Patrol officers were seeking witnesses or other drivers who may have been in the area when the crash happened, according to Matias. He said the sequence of events that led up to the SUV flipping over were unclear.
Anyone with information about the collision was asked to call the local Highway Patrol office at (858) 293-6000.