Twenty-Year-Old Arrested For Attempted Murder

Press release from the Arcata Police Department:

Matthew Allen Ramsey 

On 12/3/18 at about 0810 hrs., Arcata Police Department officers responded to the report of shots fired in the area of Foster Ave and Heather Lane. While in route, officers were advised that there was one shooting victim on scene. Witnesses also said some of the involved parties were fleeing the scene in a pickup. Officers located a truck matching the description provided traveling eastbound on Foster Ave. A high risk traffic stop was initiated and three male subjects were detained without incident.

Officers located the male shooting victim, a white male adult in his twenties, in an apartment in the 2100 block of Heather Lane. Fire and medical personnel were staged in the area and provided medical aid to the victim once the scene was secure. The victim’s injuries were not life threatening and he was transported to the hospital.

Officers learned a verbal altercation had occurred between two groups of residents. During the altercation one of the involved parties retrieved his rifle and began shooting at the other group striking one of them.

Search warrants were obtained and a rifle was located in the pickup officers stopped on their arrival. Matthew Allen Ramsey, 20 years old of Arcata was arrested for Attempted Murder and transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility.

The Arcata High School was put on lock down due to the incidents proximity to the campus. The campus was re-opened once it was determined that there were no outstanding suspects.

The Arcata Police Department would like to thank the Humboldt State University Police Department for their assistance during the initial incident as well as the Eureka Police Department for their assistance with evidence collection.

The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the Arcata Police Department at 707-822-2428.

Earlier Chapter: Arcata High Off Lockdown After Reported Shooting Nearby

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Willie Caso-Mayhem
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5 years ago

👍🏾

{..SmoKey the bear..}
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{..SmoKey the bear..}
5 years ago

Just had to comment ∆∆∆∆

gunsmoke
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gunsmoke
5 years ago

What do those symbols represent in your comment Willie?

Erik
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Erik
5 years ago
Reply to  gunsmoke

He was just responding to Willie Caso-Mayhem’s thumbs up, which is in fact a secret masonic symbol representing mastery over chaos. The 4 pyramids in smoky’s comment are an older egyptian occult version essentially representing the same thing. Adding the number 4 to the posting time equals 644, and I don’t have to tell you what that means. I’m just glad I won’t be in Arcata until well after Saturn is done being conjunct with Ur anus.

Joe
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Joe
5 years ago
Reply to  Erik

Classic. Entertaining. Funny.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Erik

Seventeenth-level Grand Poobah here, can confirm. Your math checks out.

Erik
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Erik
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

Shhhhh. we’ve already said too much.

LostCoastEMP
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LostCoastEMP
5 years ago

Arcata again. Lmao. The sanctuary/liberal poster child strikes again!

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  LostCoastEMP

the perp is from a conservative Redding family, with lots of criminal records in their tree.

Yikes
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Yikes
5 years ago
Reply to  LostCoastEMP

Some people can’t get through the day without complaining about ‘liberals…. pity them.

Southpaw
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Southpaw
5 years ago
Reply to  Yikes

I don’t think people want to see anyone getting shot up, regardless of their political ideals.
But, what I think L.C.EMP’s point is, why are these shootings, for the most part, happening in that neck of the woods?
I don’t know the answer. I don’t live there.
But, we can all agree that it needs to stop.

Rebel Yell
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Rebel Yell
5 years ago
Reply to  Yikes

They’ve destroyed America. Clintonian liberalism (yes, including rape and pedophilia), marches on, as cowardly anti-fa thugs beat down innocent people mistaken for patriots. The gangster and drug “culture” dominates Humboldt thanks to out of control leftism.

Sheesh!!
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5 years ago
Reply to  Yikes

Can’t get through a day in California without getting screwed by liberals.
I still think western france is an appropriate name for this state now.

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  Sheesh!!

maybe try harder.

chasi
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chasi
5 years ago
Reply to  LostCoastEMP

Go outside. Take a walk. Meet a neighbor.

Zoltan
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5 years ago
Reply to  chasi

In Mexico people relate to other people,in U.S. Its people with systems,government etc. no one,much, needs to go outdoors,much less make eye contact with a neighbor one hardly knows or fears.

Buster
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Buster
5 years ago
Reply to  Zoltan

“You should always look people in the eye when talking to them even if they are blind, just tell them “I’m looking you in the eye”. ” – Phil Dunphy

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  LostCoastEMP

pretty cut and dry case of racism and abuse of the 2nd amendment by junior. junior said the downstairs neighbor “gang” was after his dad on the front walkway so he gunned them down.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  LostCoastEMP

Dude’s just standing his ground and flexin’ his second ‘mendies. What’s more MAGA than that?

Huh?
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Huh?
5 years ago
Reply to  LostCoastEMP

Apparently a sanctuary for dumb armed hicks with anger management issues.

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
5 years ago
Reply to  Huh?

I’d mention the President but he’s no hick.

Jacob
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Jacob
5 years ago

He looks like he might be related to Joe Dirt. Minus the sweet mullet of coarse.

McSlurm~Moose~Knuckle
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McSlurm~Moose~Knuckle
5 years ago

Dee dee

McSlurm~Moose~Knuckle
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McSlurm~Moose~Knuckle
5 years ago

Lol]

Y Knot?
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Y Knot?
5 years ago

Looks like a version of Muncheechee that went over to the dark side….

Very sad with so many years to live, very sad.

Farce
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Farce
5 years ago

Went straight from verbal to gun shooting? That is a cowardly way to deal with a situation. That scene from the movie “Fridays” comes to mind. “You use your fists. Like a man. Then the next day everybody can get up and fight again.” (paraphrasing).

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
5 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Ya Mahn: he who fights and runs away
lives to fight another day.

Bob yer uncle
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Bob yer uncle
5 years ago

This could have been stopped by arcata police. The father has been complaining about the neighbors for 2 or 3 years. They just kept blowing him off! You would have thought after the first 47 complaints. They would have figured this out! FTP

Robert
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Robert
5 years ago
Reply to  Bob yer uncle

Except the neighbor has only lived there for 5 months, and after the first 40 times he complains and the police come out to find nothing wrong, they only come out after every couple of complaints (still finding nothing wrong).

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  Bob yer uncle

there is a valid reason the dad was also arrested. the previous neighbor had to file a restraining order and no guns are allowed in the perps from Redding apartment. mentally ill gun nuts need to lose their gun rights.

Seamus
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Seamus
5 years ago
Reply to  Crazy Ron

Well that pretty much spells out the whole situation. A father and sons trio of armed crackpots living in an apartment.

Kirk Richards
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Kirk Richards
5 years ago

now I got a hankerin for a pineapple danish

LostCoastEMP
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LostCoastEMP
5 years ago

Read his Facebook. This is how we do it in Sac Town! PS. Nice wanna be terrorist beard lol. Maybe it’s the new look in arcata….

Seamus
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Seamus
5 years ago
Reply to  LostCoastEMP

Post a link please, there are too many to sort through.

Ab
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Ab
5 years ago

Good job Leo’s.

Did the three in the car also commit the crime or just the one?

Were they fighting over drugs?

Why do people come here from Redding to commit crimes, we have enough local criminals.

Arcata needs a neighborhood watch.

Mobius Dancer
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Mobius Dancer
5 years ago
Reply to  Ab

At the moment – there may be a bit more housing here than in Redding. Certainly there is more here than in parts of Butte County…
If anyone can afford it, that is.

Southpaw
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Southpaw
5 years ago

Is there any information stating whether the kid owned the gun legally or not?

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Southpaw

According to an eyewitness in the kid interview posted above, the father of the shooter had a restraining order on him that stipulated he was not to possess a firearm.

Oso stoltman
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Oso stoltman
3 years ago

This is all bs. Matthew a. Ramsey never lived in Redding ca. He has lived in arcata his whole life. The “gang members” are proven gang members and with illegal guns and were proven to have meth and heroin on them in pounds with mutipul illegal guns searel numbers removed in over 3 occasions before and after the shoting, the “victim” has been arrested for mass attempted murder using a car to run over several people in the previous years and did murder the 2 victims. The people downstairs have since been arrested and have been released after this shoting. They also were there as the revenge from the previous Tennant witch was the person that the father upstairs had called the arcata police on all the other occasions for protection of heroin, meth dmt, and bath salts they are friends of the previous Tennant. In there last of 3 calls to the police the father said that the downstairs people were offering him gang protection illegal guns, prostitutes and heroin. The verbal altercation was between the “victim” and the father and Matthew the other brother a minor wasn’t involved in it he was in the truck across the street. The verbal altercation was over the father “stomping on the stairs and snitching” a quote for the “victim” then the “victim ” and his 5 other people with him were yelling at the father from the front of the apartment then the other 4 of the other people went inside the “victim” and 1 other person stayed outside then the father of matthew went in side as he went inside the “victim” started to make his way up the stairs running and yelling “you wanna talk shit snitch” with a can of bear mace in his hand and matthew who was currently inside went to grab his legal 223 ar-15 and shot the “victim” in the feet twice and missed 6 other shots at his feet. Aslo the “victim” doesn’t live upstairs why was he running up the stairs but to attack them.the father was in recovery from a surgery and Matthew wasn’t in shape to fight he said from the porch after the shoots were fired ” I’m too skinny to fight I will shoot to defend my father. After the “victim” was no longer coming up to attack he stopped firing then the “victim” said to his 5 other people “get him get him” after they herd that the father and Matthew ran to the truck to flee for safety they said ” we were headed straight to the police station for safety” witch they made it half way down the street before the cops stopped them at gun point and detained the father and both sons and there dog was sent to the pound they treated them as the criminals and Matthew is still in custody with a 2 and half million dollars bail. The people upstairs had no previous criminal record and haven’t returned since. They also had called 45 min before all of this happened asked for police escort out of the building in fear the people downstairs were going to attack them and were refused service. This is the police department’s fault as well as the “victims” fault. Also 1 of the 5 people from downstairs fled the since on foot. When they searched the downstairs they found a multiple cans of illegal mace and a aggressive pitbull locked in a cage. 3 of the people downstairs 1 being the “victim” were found with a can of bear mace on body and a lighter. In conclusion this was a son protecting his father from multiple attackers who he had reason to fear and the police locked him up in jail for it. Also everyone that was in the event downstairs are known felons. The arcata police are horrible at their job locking up the real victim and letting felon gang members run the streets. I lived in the apartment across the street from them I had a full view of what happened Since then I have moved being that apartment I was in was on 6 month leis. Hopefully this is straightened out and Matthew is let free and the “victim” is arrested in the soon future. The ” victim” has since been arrested for child endangerment of his own daughter and let free and the 1 that fled on foot was booked for hand guns removed serial numbers and meth and also has been let free. And for those talking about matthews Facebook they dont have real info Mathew has no Facebook.