Victim Had Pocketknife in His Hand, Says Witness to Saturday Night’s Homicide

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Jeremy Voris [Photo used with permission from his Facebook page.]

When fatal gunshots rang out south of Hammond Park just before 10 last night, Jeremy Voris, combat vet and former deputy sheriff was only a few blocks away picking up a buddy. “I heard five or six gunshots,” he recounted to us in an interview this afternoon. He and his friend headed towards the scene.

“We saw a guy laying on the street,” Voris said, “[and] a guy just standing there…No vehicles for half a block in either direction.”

The man lying down on Watson Street near F Street had a gunshot wound in his chest, explained the former deputy sheriff. “The victim had a pocketknife in his hand. It wasn’t all the way open. It was just a small pocket knife. I kicked it away. Once I started treating him, I grabbed it and put it in my pocket and gave it to EPD when they got there.”

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Jeremy Voris and Briyan Marquardt [Photo taken a month ago provided by Voris]

Almost immediately, Voris and his friend began working to save the victim. “We started doing first aid,” he said. His friend, Briyan Marquardt, called 911.

The victim, recounted Voris, was not able to answer any questions. “He was just moaning and rolling back and forth.”

Voris was uneasy. “I was concerned that the [shooter] was still around–that we weren’t entirely safe,” he said.

The other man who had been standing at the scene when Voris and Marquardt arrived appeared worried about the victim according to Voris. “He seemed concerned about the guy so I assumed he was a friend.” However, eventually, Voris said, the man who had been standing there “took off.”

The former sheriff’s deputy estimates about five minutes passed between the time he arrived on scene and when Eureka Police arrived.

Later, Voris overheard on police radios that another man had also been shot and was now at the hospital.

The man Voris tried to save, died, leaving him “a little shaken up” by the experience. “I kinda expected that kind of thing when we were overseas or when I was a cop. You don’t expect those things when you are a civilian.”

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G-ma
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G-ma
8 years ago

At least you tried to help him!!good job.we do have great people here,now if only all the bad rifraf would disappear we’d be set

Nancy
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Nancy
8 years ago

Hey Kym. Things are going down in Willow Creek with the trimmagrants. Local women protesting because someone exposed themselves to a minor. Cops are getting involved and people are trying to run the trimmagrants out of town.

huh?
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huh?
8 years ago
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someone tell them please to not come back to arcata.

Life is Good
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Life is Good
8 years ago
Reply to  huh?

and don’t come back to Garberville. Go back to Italy, Argentina and Bulgaria. We don’t want you here.

Jacqueline
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Jacqueline
8 years ago

Thank you for stepping up to the plate in a dangerous situation, you went over and above, you should be honored for your act of bravery and courage…you and your friend could of been a victims also. We need a neighbor hood watch and more police presence in that area of town..bullets were flying a man was killed it could of played out worse, someone else may have been killed too

Mogtx
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8 years ago

I think I heard on my scanner something about a street fight 415 in progress with chains and knives

Allan Dollison
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8 years ago

I am very proud to call Jeremy my friend. This does not surprise me at all that he risked himself to save a dying man! I hope you are OK. Jeremy, I like some of your friends know the effect that this can have on someone, who served overseas!

JT
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JT
8 years ago

Thank you for a more detail coverage then LOCO…..sad.

Jeff Jacobsen
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Jeff Jacobsen
8 years ago

Thank you Jeremy and Brian for putting yourselves in harms way and trying to save a life. I want to nominate you both for some kind of award. It takes guts to jump into the middle of that kind of situation. Thank you for your service also.

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
8 years ago

Thank you for your service, both at home and abroad.

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