[UPDATED] Shooting in Eureka: One Dead, One Wounded
The scene of this morning’s shooting. [Photo from EPD Chief Steve Watson]
Chief Steve Watson replied to a request for information by stating, “It is my preliminary understanding we have one deceased male, a second wounded and being treated and no outstanding suspects but I stress this is very preliminary.” He promised more information by noon. “EPD detectives are still on scene executing a search warrant,collecting evidence and processing the scene.”
According to the scanner, EPD officers backed by CHP and HCSO officers rushed to the scene of the shooting immediately after the first report.
Almost as soon as they arrived, CPR was being performed on one person, according to the incident commander speaking over the radio. He added that the second person had a moderate gunshot wound
Six people were detained including one juvenile as officers determined what had occurred.
A roadblock was put up on West Avenue as officers investigated the scene. The road is still closed.
We’ve sent a photographer to the incident and requested more information from the Eureka Police.
Note: this story has been updated with information from Chief Watson.
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UPDATE: Appears to Be Self-Defense, Says EPD, About This Morning’s Shooting Death
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Odds are their loss of life won’t matter in comparison to Lawson’s.
Well, aren’t you a [edit]? I wish I’d learn not to look at the comment threads. [edit] If your child or loved one were murdered, you’d want to know who did it and see them punished.
Thank you Melissa.
Melissa I agree with you I wish I would learn not to look at comments especially when there there are disgusting pieces of work like Mike & Joe who take a tragedy like this to make slimy comments.
Would you object to the commenters who routinely use any such incident to voice their opinion about white trash, inbred locals or such?
Reality Melissa. By the way Jay, this is not a tragedy. A tragedy is when for reasons outside their control someone experiences an horrific event. This is a perfectly predictable event based on the fascination today’s young have for the “thug life”. Well, this a manifestation of that fascination.
It’s a tragedy to the family and friends, do youself a favor a take a nice hot shower to warm that cold ass heart of yours. Some people just have no common sense, their is a distraught mother reading these. Losing someone anyhow is a tragedy!
Shot assaulting a person in their home. Now what you think of mommies boy. Hmmmm
His L.A. gangster “friends” are the ones to investigate. You can take the guy out of the ‘hood but –
HSU – that dying Marxist diploma mill- loves to import the gangsta’s.
Okay mike, something tells me that the fact your bring up the death of an unarmed “kid” that was stabbed to death, speaks volumes as to the type of mindset you have. No one but you made that statement. You sound like a racist [edit] just like 80% of the people who live around here. Look at the demographics? Is it a bunch of Mexicans up here growing all the weed and destroying water ways and polluting the land with heavy metals and god knows what chemicals? I’m sure there are cartel grows but who’s really doing the damage? Private land owners? Who owns most the land? White people….family’s that have privileged positions. Last I checked the sheriffs are abating land owners!!! Not gorilla grows on private land that are ran by cartel . No it’s your neighbor and joe’s grandson and Larry’s uncles brother . Do you see where I’m going here? Point the finger at the minorities like we are the problem when in fact who’s the people that run the black market? Are they Mexican? Nope!! Most growers I met around here that have anything of worth are white!!! And they will sell the cartel in LA the Bay Area it’s only obvious while they hide in the midsts if there white privileged communities. It’s been like this for ages people. This racial division has its roots within the black market and mike is a perfect example of someone that embodies that spirit of humboldt that no one wants to talk about…the blatant disregard for A humans life. Yes I said human not black person but you sir could be regarded as an alien as the white race is alien to this land and yes I’m making the assumption that “mike” is probably a middle aged white man with privilege on his plate.
Your rant was extremely racist and I take great offense to it as I am a non privileged, middle aged, white woman. Everyone needs to grow up and stop blaming race and blame those that are guilty singly not as a group. Back down and get along. Life would be much better.
Lol I’m white . Being called racist by other white people !!🤣🤣🙏🏽🤦🏽♂️ And a single group of white people havecompletely decimated another race which still suffers to this day. Your ignorance is showing….you should google the term, “structural racism” brown University does some great lectures on it maybe you should educate yourself instead of making up your own ideas, my fellow white person that is probably sitting in a position of privilege trying to call me a racist when you have no idea what your even talking about.
Thanks, Karen.
Rookie, it sounds like you have a few narratives that you should be questioning as well.
What narrative? Everything I said has factual evidence to support my claim
Your just as privileged as mike I can see
You’re*
Wow. Just wow
You totally sold me on the whole inbred act. With [edit] and the centuries outdated model for viewing the world .
Spot on humor, [edit]..
Spot on.
Geezus Mike. 🤦♂️
To who and why?
If you’re going to [edit] compare every murder to D.J. Lawson, then I wonder if the police will allow the main suspects vehicle to be driven home 1 hour after the shooting, like they let happen with Kyle’s car and knife bag.
…..or at least vet the “witness” statements for inconsistencies and truthfulness before trying to build a case around them. That was a big criticism in the review of the Lawson case. The crowd should never have been released until the police knew they had reliable information. IMO they copped out and accepted unreliable “witness” statements because to diligently ferret out reliable information could have escalated confrontation with the angry and unruly mob.
Obviously more Trump supporters run amok, because there’s so many of them in Eureka—–right?
Violent crime is off the charts. Zero $ bail.
But it isnt.
And zero bail doesn’t include violent crime.
Sounds like a complete inside job a complete set up or payback
This was all over a stolen sex toy is what scanner info said this AM. My brother lives in Fortuna as well and knows members of law enforcement. God bless.
I hope that’s true. Can’t undo the loss of life, but a weird case would be a break from the usual depressing grind of knuckleheads with guns.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE SEX TOYS TRUMP YOUR WEIRD ASS MOTHER FUCKERS SITTING HERE COMMENTING ON FABRICATION AND SPECULATION THIS YOUNG WAS NO PERV HE IS UNCLE TO MY GRANDCHILDREN GO TO HELL GET A LIFE HE JUST HAD A BABY GIRL AND WASN’T EVEN 20. AND NONE OF YOU ARE EVEN CLOSE TO WHAT ACTUALLY CAUSED THIS!!!
He would have been on better moral ground playing with a dildo than doing what he did when he got himself killed.
Prolly white guys pretending to be gang bangers. Prolly trying to do one of those Compton barbecues where babies run around in diapers fat baby mommas with long finger nails representin booooooyyyyy!! I bet they had flat brim hats too boooooooyyyyy!!!!
Wow!! Peaople are F****** Idiots!! Get a life!! Just when i think there is a chance for the human race some dumbass opens their mouth and reminds me that NOPE!! How the hell does it get to fat baby mama’s and ghetto barbeques?? My god it sucks that your a miserable human being
I understand this was a domestic dispute between the two males who were in a relationship
“obviously that”
“probably this”
“perfectly predictable”
What a bunch of know-nothing commenters. No one knows anything, and you have the solution already. Brilliant. You should all apply to S.H.I.E.L.D, or maybe SSR, where you can put your talents to their best use.
Jiminy.
Major sensorship going on here I just called mike out and they deleted it that’s the last time I support this platform. By giving racism a voice without allowing it to be shutdown is another form of dictatorship it’s the same thing the Germans did in ww2 which allowed the nazis to take over 🤷🏽♂️ My grandfather was a prisoner of war in ww2 and Kim your a disgrace to freedom Nd what he fought Nd died for to protect. That was the most un-American thing to do is shut down someone’s like me. If you want to continue this conversation then why don’t you come to Facebook group Nd make your defense and why don’t you bring mike with you?
Mike is a preferred commenter because Kym knows him and she would trust him with a million bucks.
The inconsistencies in moderation here are glaring.
Over and out, once again…
Miss your balancing of the ludicrous comments YS.
Sorry Brian, battling dumbshit botish trolls in here is futile. This blogs comment threads are going the way of Loco. It was a good brief run for RHBB but here we are. I’ve got better things to do, there was a last straw that clinched it for me. Good luck if you prefer to try and make sense to some of these trolls, I suggest a productive retreat like lots of good commenters have done here over the past few years.
Let the Trumpers have it…
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya
; )
The solution to ludicrous comments is not more ludicrous comments.
That is one big problem with taking everything immediately to the lowest level. If you can’t tell the difference between calling someone names and objecting to a person’s statement, then finding Kym’s moderating inconsistent is inevitable. A person thinking that calling someone stupid is a valid rebuke of something objectionable is always going to be confused when it just creates more spite.
No matter how intelligent you try to sound you end up in the weeds.
Your attempt at an insult just illustrated Guest’s point spectacularly
I would love to hear someone explain to me how me pointing out that the level of effort in a murder investigation shouldn’t be related to race makes me a racist? That’s the definition of oxymoron. I don’t think I triggered this many people since I said that Hilary deserved to lose the election.
I don’t even know what you are talking about. And, off the top of my head, I don’t have a commenter named Mike that I know personally.
Okay, I figured it out. You are either a new commenter or have never commented under this name. To cut down on spam, my website holds those comments until I approved them and I’m super busy this morning and behind. Your comment is up with one small edit.
May I remind everyone that my email is [email protected] and if you have concerns about how racist and unfair I moderate the comment sections, you’ll get notice more there.
Kym…When you moderate are you looking at the poster’s I.P. or their chosen aliases. Can you determine if one poster is using multiple handles? I know one poster here is using at least 3 different names. Is that common? Anyone using more than 3?
It’s totally common. Loco threads are just a about nothing but. It’s a big game. Commenters are having conversations with themselves under multiple names, backing “eachother ” up. It’s pathetic and it’s happening here also. There’s probably nothing Kym can do about it.
Paranoia.
Gaslighting is another tactic that multiple personality commenters engage in…
Do you find virtue in using one name just because it means you might have to actually read a comment before accusing the poster of evil? It’s just so much easier to attack a stereotype without having to think about it. But it’s not better for either empathy or reason. So why do you find who says what to be more important than what they say? Do you consider commenting as a popularity contest?
List of people who have suffered from stereotyping reads like a liberal’s Who’s Who- Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx, victims of McCarthyism like Langston Hughes and Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Dreyfus, etc. And does the same for conservative’s list when the temper of the populace goes against them- Fang Zhongmou, Anastasia Romanov, Nicholas Sandmann, Sardar Mohammed Daoud, etc
A name is attached to a reputation. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons not to attach one’s name, however, in my opinion, knowing whether one is talking to Steven Hawking or Alex Jones about physics is helpful–in a world where we don’t have infinite time–to shorten the path to information that can be trusted.
OMG, you have no ability to look at yourself. None whatsoever. Just look at your comment. Jesus, this is what I’m talking about.
I’m done, done done.
Really? Bye-bye.
Dave, I could look at the poster’s I.P. or their chosen aliases when I moderate. In practice, I usually don’t. But if (since I read so many comments) I am able to get a sense when something odd is going on, I start watching certain commenters ip’s and addresses.
That said people can write in any address. (Some folks like to use it to insult me privately for some weird reason. I almost always leave insults to me up when they are on the page but I delete any in the email section.) And there are ways of changing ips and cell phones that add a whole new level of problems.
I don’t mind a poster using “multiple handles”- unless they are doing so to support a position in a way to make themselves seem supported by others. If possible (ie they use a good email) I warn them privately in that case. If not possible, I warn them on the website. I’ve only had to do that once recently.
One poster, for instance is fairly open about using their multiple handles, and switches for some reason known only to themselves. If I thought he was attempting to fool anyone, I would warn him.
Does anybody know why this article doesn’t say much about anything? They didn’t even mention an arrest.
Oh,.. and booooyyy!!!
I’m surprised there isn’t more of this going on after hearing of many stories of people nutting up because of this quarantine.
For some reason this reminded of the shooting death of Sheriff Cox and two others nearly 40 years ago. I am always amused that people look back to the “good old days” of Humboldt County or Eureka like it was a peaceful place before “they” (whoever the “they of the moment is, the current “they” being Covid) showed up.
Nutters gonna nut, SIP or otherwise.
This. I was just looking up Sheriff Cox’s death and came across this quote from his successor, in November, 1982, in the Times-Standard:
”I don’t comprehend what happened,” said Dave Renner, who was elected in June to replace Cox and will immediately take office.
”It’s a sad, tragic thing, but the Sheriff’s Department will go forward,” he said. “Violent deaths! My God! This is the 22nd Humboldt County has had this year!”
Did you ask yourself why Sheriff Renner was shocked at 22 murders in 1982 but Sheriff Honsal feeling it is a blessing to have only 19 in 2019? When the population was so similar in those two years?
Honsal is relieved that it isn’t as high as 2016? Which had the highest rate in three decades.
Also, the population of Humboldt in 1982 was about 110K, where it’s now 135K. Really, I am just sadly amused that people act like Humboldt County is NOW this hellscape. You should have been here in the 60s and 70s. Especially the 60s. The County lost population in the 60s and early 70s. It was just recovering in 1982.
Early 80s was the economic nadir, but one remark circulating back then was how low the crime was in Arcata. Nobody says that now, after the greenrush. On the plus side, inner Eureka is no longer the totally depressing pit it was back then and it’s now a place people actually want to move to.
Oh yeah, believe me I know. I lived on 2 street in the 70s. Before the initial attempts to rehab it and when that empty lot became the gazebo thingy. Lots of heroin and other drugs, though I managed to avoid that (though some I went to grade school with didn’t). And the hobos (as we called them then). But thai sticks were exotic and seeds and stems were a part of life.
edited to add: 2 Street was also it’s own little community. The Italian market (Celli’s ?), Peggy’s Café, Roy’s….definitely some great things about it.
I am not saying that things don’t suck now, but they have always kind of sucked. Though I love the county I consider my home and would love to move back to, but I married an Oregonian who has no desire to leave.
The 80s may have been the nadir, but the population continued to grow. The timber industry was dying. I think I have mentioned it before, but when the pulp mills came in, some “old” guy said to me that when the pulp mills come in, the logging industry has 30 years left. I don’t know why I remember that comment so well, I was maybe 11 at the time.
Humboldt is also isolated just enough to attract dead enders. Where are they going to go from here? Crescent City?
I should point out that homeless druggies aren’t specific to Humboldt. It’s all over the west coast, even in my little town of 10K.
Inland timber definitely died when rising log prices put all the gyppo operations out of business during the 70s and 80s. Coastal timber did better, but competition from Canada and the Puget-Willamette region keeps it on the margins. Redwood lumber is now a boutique product like Sonoma County wine grapes.
We’ll see whether or not Humboldt remains attractive to dead-enders now that the pot bubble has burst and that dream no longer beckons.
Seeds and stems? Joints? I remember those!
Old growth redwood lumber is now a boutique product. Unfortunately, that wood is now commercially extinct.
The second growth hybridized shit they’re logging now is only fit for fence boards and fools who can be convinced that it’s a great deck material as long as you put stain and Thompson’s Water Seal on it.
The only source for quality old growth redwood lumber now is old buildings, and they’re being destroyed by Figas et al, and sent to the landfill, at the rate of about one a week.
There weren’t 19 homicides in 2019 (I am pretty sure there were 10 in the whole county) and the population grew from 109k to 132K between 1982 and 2019.
I went and checked. There were 10. https://www.times-standard.com/2019/12/30/humboldt-county-sees-lowest-homicide-rate-in-years-in-2019/
Wtf is wrong with people?! My heart breaks for the families of these people.iIt really doesn’t matter who or what these people are .What matters is that they are human,and no one has the right to play God and take their lives too soon.People should really watch their shitty remarks because someday it could be them reading about their loved ones. God forbid! Have some humanity and respect for the families of those involved please.Dont add misery where there is already pain.Anyone know the names of the victims? Pray for them not talk crap
I agree, it seems like too many folks will take the opportunity to say heartless & often racist crap any opportunity they get on RHBB or Lost Coast comments. Some day I will wise up and stop reading them because it is all very disheartening and divisive.
Yessss!! Why do I read these threads??? Ugh.
It’s bad, getting worse and it isn’t going to stop. You have to decide where you draw the line for yourself…
This was my family member who wasn’t even 20 years old and just had a baby girl, you want to do something about the crime get off this page and go do something worthwhile to help stop violent crime figure it out. I only respond cuz you all sound stupid sitting talking about something yet do nothing to aid in preventing it.
He got killed while assaulting someone in their home after 2AM. Responsible fathers don’t do that.
Third eye,
thanks.
People making comments when facts are not even out yet. Violence is violence, and uncalled for. RIP to the deceased and hopefully justice will be served. Violence is never the answer.
Two Murders in two days are two many.
🕯🌳”Take your hands off me you bloody apes.” My prayers and condolences to the family of the victim.🛐🕊
Thank you for your offers of condolences to the rest of you I am speechless as to your ramblings I would like to point out the worst part of this besides the loss of a young new father is that we the family had to find out just as you did and not beforehand. To me that is a crime in itself.
I was there with in minutes of this. People had come out in the street and blocked my car everyone moved but one man. A women came and talked him out of standing in the middle of the road. I just waited. I thought he was drunk. He moved to the side of the road and I drove on. I choose another route home.
So proud to be that 20%.
there’s so much craziness in these comments that you have to go back to the story to figure out what the story was about to begin with..