Sacramento shooting: multiple shooters, 6 dead; stolen gun recovered at scene

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Paul Best | Fox News


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Six people were fatally shot and another dozen were injured when multiple shooters opened fire in downtown Sacramento as people flooded out of bars and restaurants around 2:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, officials said.

"We know that a large fight took place just prior to the shooting and we have confirmed that there are multiple shooters," Sacramento Police Chief Kathy Lester said at a press conference on Sunday afternoon.

Three of the deceased victims are women and the other three are men.

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Investigators are now combing through hundreds of pieces of evidence across multiple city blocks, including surveillance video and footage taken by members of the public.

The Sacramento Police Department said that it is aware of at least one video on social media that appears to show a fight preceding the shooting and encouraged members of the public to submit any evidence they have.
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"We have video from our police camera at 10th and K Street that captured portions of the shooting and we have received multiple videos and tips from members of the public. We are deeply grateful for that and I want to thank the public for their assistance," Chief Lester said Sunday.

One stolen handgun was recovered at the scene. No suspects are in custody at this time.

"I have every confidence that Chief Lester and the hardworking men and women of the police department are going to find who was responsible," Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said Sunday.

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Officials from Mayor Steinberg to Gov. Gavin Newsom called for stricter gun laws in the wake of the shooting.

"What we do know at this point is that another mass casualty shooting has occurred, leaving families with lost loved ones, multiple individuals injured and a community in grief," Newsom said in a statement on Sunday morning. "The scourge of gun violence continues to be a crisis in our country, and we must resolve to bring an end to this carnage."

It was the second mass shooting in California's capital this year. On Feb. 28, 39-year-old David Mora shot and killed his three daughters, their chaperone, and himself during a supervised visitation in a Church, officials said.

There were 55 murders in Sacramento in 2021, a 31% increase over 2020, according to Sacramento Police Department data. The city also saw a 30% increase in rapes and a 27% increase in motor vehicle thefts.

It was the deadliest year for Sacramento since 2006, when 57 people were murdered, the Sacramento Bee reports.

Homicides surged 17% last year in four of California's major cities – Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, and San Francisco – according to a preliminary analysis of data by the Public Policy Institute of California.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Emma Colton | Fox News


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One of the suspects in the Sacramento mass shooting was released early from prison roughly a month before the tragedy despite being rejected for an even earlier release after prosecutors argued he "clearly has little regard for human life," documents show.

Smiley Martin was arrested Tuesday in connection to the mass shooting that left six dead and 12 others injured early Sunday morning. His brother, Dandrae Martin, was the first suspect to be arrested in the case.

"Smiley Martin and his brother, we believe, were together during this incident," said Sgt. Zach Eaton of the Sacramento Police Department said of the shooting, according to KGO.

Smiley Martin has a criminal history dating back to 2013, including his most recent sentencing in 2018 to 10 years in prison for domestic violence and assault with great bodily injury. He was sentenced after he pushed his way into his girlfriend's home, punched her, dragged her from the residence by her hair and whipped her with a belt.

A Parole Board rejected his bid for early release in May of last year after prosecutors said the 2017 felony assault along with convictions for possessing an assault weapon and thefts posed "a significant, unreasonable risk of safety to the community."

Martin "clearly has little regard for human life and the law," and has displayed a pattern of criminal behavior from the time he was 18, a Sacramento County deputy district attorney wrote in a letter last year to the Board of Parole Hearings.

He was ultimately released in February of this year after authorities said his sentence was completed due to pre-sentencing credits.

"Smiley Martin, 27, was received by CDCR in January 2018 from Sacramento County with a 10 year sentence for corporal injury and assault likely to cause great bodily injury. Prior to reaching a CDCR facility, Martin had already received 508 days of pre-sentencing credits, and received a variety of additional post-sentencing credits. He was released to Sacramento County probation in February 2022," the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said of his release.

He was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun. Hours before Sunday’s attack, Martin had posted a live Facebook video of himself brandishing a handgun, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

Smiley Martin was also injured during the shooting and will be booked when his condition improves enough for him to be jailed, a police statement said.

His brother, Dandrae Martin, 26, was arrested Monday as a "related suspect" on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and being a convict carrying a loaded gun. He was also wounded in the shooting, but not seriously, and made a brief appearance on the gun possession charge Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court wearing orange jail scrubs.

Daviyonne Dawson, 31, was also arrested on suspicion of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. He was reportedly seen carrying a gun right after the mass shooting, according to police.

"At this time, Dawson is not charged with crimes directly related to the shootings," Sacramento police wrote. "Based on the type of firearm recovered, detectives do not believe that this gun was used in the shooting."

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The Sacramento County coroner identified the women killed as Johntaya Alexander, 21; Melinda Davis, 57; and Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21. The three men killed were Sergio Harris, 38; Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32; and De’vazia Turner, 29.

California has seen repeated cases of criminals being released from custody only to commit crimes just days later. In Los Angeles, one suspect in a series of follow-home robberies was nabbed after he had already been arrested three times this year but subsequently released back onto the streets.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[lost in melb.]

Shit, they were black :shock:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Shit, they were black :shock:

That's why the media is keeping fairly quiet on this story ;)

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Yeah, the LA Times wouldn't even print their pictures with the story. And they are claiming we need more gun control, even though they broke multiple gun laws and are completely ignoring the fact that the "early release" program they passed isn't the issue :roll:



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[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Paul Best | Fox News


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Smiley Martin, 27, was released from prison in February after serving less than half of a 10-year sentence for punching and whipping his girlfriend with a belt while she was hiding in her closet, despite pleas from the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office that he "should not be released as he poses a significant, unreasonable risk of safety to the community."

Just weeks later, he and his brother, 26-year-old Dandrae Martin, were allegedly involved in a gang shootout in downtown Sacramento in the early morning hours of April 3 that left six people dead and another dozen people injured.

The tragedy is just the latest example of what happens when society fails to punish repeat violent offenders, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones told Fox News Digital.

"The best predictor of future behavior is past conduct, and violent people, they're going to be violent when they get out, and that's what we've seen here," Jones said.

"Every crime has a victim and these victims are racking up, sometimes minorly and sometimes catastrophically, like we saw in Sacramento [on April 3]. This is the latest, but it unfortunately won't be the last. Because if we don't change the way California and the rest of this nation treats criminals… then this is only going to be a continuing trend."

Martin has a lengthy criminal history that stretches back before the 2017 arrest and subsequent conviction for assaulting his girlfriend.

He was arrested in January 2013 for being in possession of an assault rifle and two fully loaded 25-round magazines that he tried to discard when police made contact with him. A judge sentenced him to probation and county jail in that case.

Then in November 2013, Martin and three other suspects entered a Walmart and robbed the store of $2,800 of electronics. An investigation uncovered his involvement in two other robberies that month and he was sentenced to two years in prison.

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Three years later in November 2016, Martin gave law enforcement officers a fake name and tried to flee when they said he was being detained. The assault on his girlfriend, who the district attorney said he encouraged to be a prostitute, came six months after that.

"Martin has demonstrated repeatedly that he cannot follow the laws, or conditions the court places on him," Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney Danielle Abildgaard wrote in a letter opposing his release last year. "His history indicates that he will pursue his own personal agenda regardless of the consequences and regulatory restraints placed upon him."

Martin was released early from prison in February after being awarded 508 days of credits for time he spent in Sacramento County jail as well as other post-sentencing credits under proposition 57, a law that California voters passed in 2016 to give "nonviolent" felons a chance to shave time off their sentence.

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Jones cited laws like proposition 57 for letting violent offenders out of prison, arguing that Americans now have a collective amnesia about the tough-on-crime policies that reduced crime in the past few decades.

"In the late 80s and early 90s… violent crime in California and across the country was so bad that it gave rise to things like three strikes, gang enhancements, gun enhancements, things to really address the out-of-control violence that was occurring. Well, that has led, at least in California, and I think as a nationwide trend, to violent crime being reduced over the last two or three decades, it has worked. But people have a short memory, and they say, 'Well, since we aren't as violent anymore, we don't need these things,' without realizing the cause and effect, that these things actually reduce violent crime," Jones said.

"As we chisel away at these things, as we chisel away at three strikes, as we chisel away at enhancements, as we let people out of jail, as we start treating criminals like victims and victims like criminals, it's entirely predictable what is going to happen, and we’re seeing it play out."

Martin is not an exception when it comes to early prison release. Out of 4,070 inmates who were sentenced in Sacramento and released between January 2019 and May 2021, more than 1,300 served less than half of their sentence, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney.

Homicides, meanwhile have surged at the same time. Sacramento saw 55 murders in 2021, a nearly 31% increase over 2020, according to Sacramento Police Department data.

In four other major California cities – Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, and San Francisco – homicides surged 17% last year, according to a preliminary analysis of data by the Public Policy Institute of California.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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