Neighbor slays assailant

[cobrian45]

IME, I was just about to copy that quote and say that either the police were smoking crack before they arrived to have done that, or the journalist was. Based on this story and the writing I'm going to have to blame the journalist for not getting the facts straight. But then again, it's Sacramento, who knows?

 

[silverlance]

It is probably SOP to treat anybody who straight up killed somebody as a murder suspect just in case. You wouldn't want someone shooting someone and telling the cops "it was in self defense" on the way out the door.

Now if they had arrested him, confiscated his gun, and put him in the drunk tank overnight, that would be a different story.

Again, this article contains wording designed to influence the minds of the uncritical public - by pointedly noting that the shooter was considered (however briefly) a murder suspect, the reporter is doing his part toward discouraging the sheep from ever growing fangs.

 

[jojosdad]

cobrian45 - actually it happened in the next county, El Dorado, which is definitely NOT the same as Sac, as shown by the DA's quote in the following story.

http://www.sacbee.com/102/story/619115.html
El Dorado DA identifies dead suspect; hails gun-wielding neighbor
Stan Oklobdzija - [email protected]

Last Updated 1:58 pm PST Tuesday, January 8, 2008

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The El Dorado County District Attorney's Office has identified the 33-year-old man who the DA said was responsible for Sunday's stabbing rampage which left one man dead and one man wounded as Behnam Pazoki.

Pazoki, who family members described as mentally ill, was visiting relatives in El Dorado Hills on Sunday when he grabbed a kitchen knife and chased terrified relatives into the street. During the rampage, which occurred on the 1000 block of Venezia Drive, Pazoki stabbed Vahid Seyedin, 47, the owner of the home he was staying at, and killed his uncle Ahmad Pazeky, 58, according the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office.

Pazoki was ultimately shot by a neighbor, Shahin Kohan, 47, who witnessed the attack and came to the family's aid armed with a handgun, sheriffs said.

In a press release issued today, the district attorney's office said that after Kohan warned Pazoki to stop, Pazoki turned his attention to him and other neighbors that had gathered around watching the horror unfold.

"Mr. Kohan's actions directly prevented other people and himself from being seriously injured or killed," the release said.

El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson called Kohan's actions heroic in the release.

""All too often the term hero is applied to situations where it is inappropriate...," Pierson said in the release. "Mr. Kohan was a bystander whose quick action, done at great risk to him, likely saved lives and certainly prevented additional injuries. Mr. Kohan, by any definition, is in fact a hero."

Sheriff's Deputies briefly detained Kohan on murder charges following the incident, but quickly released him after the facts of the case were reviewed.

 

[sixgunner455]

Wow. I have a good friend who lives in El Dorado county. I'll have to call him and see if he's any where near this place.

 

[Aguila Blanca]

Mark Stromberg lives a few houses from the corner where the mayhem took place. He said he was inside and didn't know what had happened until a sheriff's deputy knocked on his door.

Stromberg said he stepped out of his house and "saw the kind of thing you see on the 6 o'clock news, not something you see 150 feet from your door."

Right.

"Because, of course, I live in a gated community. I expect such nasty things to happen 150 feet from YOUR door, not 150 feet from my door. Plebian."