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Vallejo police chief decries violence after shooting leaves man dead Glen Faison

Information about what police suspect may have led to the shooting VALLEJO — A shoot- was not released. ing Saturday in the Police Chief Shawny city left a 21-year-old Williams in a press San Francisco man dead release characand the police terized a spate chief lamenting of deadly shootwhat he describes ings as “senseless as “senseless” gun violence” and “systemic” that he said was gun violence. “systemic.” O f f i c e r s “We must responded shortly double down on after 10:05 a.m. our efforts to stop to a report of a community vioWILLIAMS shooting on the lence through 1500 block of Valle Vista adequately resourced Avenue. The man was intervention stratefound at the scene with at gies,” Williams said in least one gunshot wound the statement. and was pronounced He called gun viodead, police report. lence a public health Authorities withheld crisis and urged the the man’s name pending family notifications. See Violence, Page A8 GFAISON@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

Fairfield police report 1 dead after shooting Sunday Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — Detectives are searching for those responsible for a deadly shooting early Sunday in the city. Dispatchers were notified of a fight shortly before 3:50 a.m. on the 1000 block of Eisenhower Drive, police report. Another caller shortly thereafter reported shots being fired outside his home. Officers who responded to the area found a man in the yard with a gunshot wound. He was transported to a local hospital and died as a result of his injuries, police report. The man’s name, age and city of residence were not released. Investigations Division personnel are working the case. This is the city’s seventh reported homicide of the year: n A 44-year-old Fairfield resident was shot and killed and two men from Suisun City were injured in a shooting shortly after 5:15 a.m. March 13 near a convenience store on the 200 block of East Tabor Avenue. One of the Suisun City men died two days later after being taken off life

support. Their names were not released. n Anthony Fuimano, 56, of Fairfield, was shot at approximately 11:25 p.m. April 21 on the 300 block of Manzanita Avenue. Police report he died from his injuries at a local hospital at approximately 2 a.m. April 22. n Charles David Parsons, 56, of Fairfield, was stabbed during an altercation reported just before 1 p.m. May 16 in front of a business on the 1300 block of West Texas Street. He died as a result of his injuries. n Sao Loa, 56, of Fairfield, was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive in the aftermath of a neighborhood altercation that occurred just before 11 a.m. May 31 on the 1200 block of Willet Court. n A male was killed and another male was injured in a shooting that happened at approximately 11:15 p.m. July 22 on the 1700 block of Enterprise Drive. Officers who arrived there found several people who were participating in the making of a music video, along with the two people who were shot. The names, ages and cities of residence were not released for those who were shot.

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Jeffrey Brooker, the San Diego supervising deputy city attorney, works in his office in San Diego, July 13.

Team in San Diego pioneers California’s red flag law Alexei Koseff CALMATTERS

There were four more requests for gun violence restraining orders on Jeff Brooker’s desk when he arrived at the San Diego City Attorney’s Office that July morning. Officers had responded to a minor car crash at a mall where the driver, who carried a replica firearm, was rambling delusionally and threatening to kill the “one-percenters” and a public official. Another man, during an argument outside a family member’s home, had pulled a gun out of his waistband and pointed it at someone’s head as several others looked on. It was not an unusual number of new cases for the department’s eight-member gun violence restraining order unit, which Brooker oversees. In an average

are handguns, have since been returned to the owners. “Do you believe this person should have a gun? Your own sense is the best test,” said Brooker, who employs a cable television thought experiment to illustrate how he tries to depoliticize the highly charged red flag law: If a case hypothetically turns into a major news story, how might it be covered by both liberal MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and conservative Fox News anchor Sean Hannity? “If this is a case they can agree on, this is the kind of case we’re going to file,” Brooker said. These red flag laws, touted by advocates as one of the best tools available to prevent gun violence, received a renewed push this summer after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, See Law, Page A8

3 people – 2 from Fairfield - die in head-on crash along Interstate-80 Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — Three people died early Sunday in a head-on crash along Interstate 80 on the outskirts of Davis that sent two other people to a regional trauma center for treatment. Two of those killed were Fairfield residents. The crash happened at approximately 3:10 a.m. as a 31-year-old Fairfield woman was driving an

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week, they triage 30 referrals from local police, reviewing scenarios in which officers believe a resident is at risk of committing gun violence. About a third of the time – in those instances when the person clearly poses a danger to themselves or others, and they aren’t already prohibited from possessing weapons for another reason – the office will petition a judge to temporarily seize their firearms, under a six-year-old California statute that was among the country’s first “red flag” laws. More than 1,250 times since the end of 2017, when San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott launched the pioneering unit, Brooker’s team has successfully filed a gun violence restraining order, leading to the seizure, as of April, of nearly 1,600 firearms from 865 people – far more than any other agency in the state. An estimated one-third of the weapons, most of which

Infiniti sedan eastbound in the westbound lanes of I-80 west of Richards Boulevard in Davis and collided head-on with a Hyundai sedan, driven by a 30-year-old Petaluma man, that was headed west in the fast lane on westbound I-80, the Solano area California Highway Patrol office reports. Both drivers were killed in the crash, along with a 27-year-old Fairfield woman who WEATHER 88 | 56 Sunny. Forecast on B8

was a passenger in the Infiniti. Their names were withheld pending family notifications, the CHP reports. Two other passengers in the Infiniti had major injuries and were transported to the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento for treatment, the CHP reports. They were identified as Calvin Parish, 36, of Oakland, and Terell Clark Sr., 31, of Sacramento.

Westbound I-80 was shut down for several hours with traffic rerouted around the crash scene. All lanes had reopened shortly before 6:25 a.m., the CHP reports. The crash is being investigated by the Solano area CHP office. The Solano County Coroner’s Office is handling that aspect of the case as well as family See Crash, Page A8

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