updates concerning this are at the bottom...
While driving
south on Main St. around Santa Clara "Daylight Time" with my stereo
turned up, these black teenage (hearing my stereo) "kids" were smiling
and gesturing, and I was reading their lips "Nice Rims" at me, while
at a stoplight. They looked young…
I headed down
main to Riverview where Frank lives. I stopped in front of Frank’s house and
tried calling him from my cell phone at the curb not realizing they were still
behind me. One got out and started to approach me. I then drove away very fast!
I continued to
Belmonte Park to see if George was home never thinking they were still behind
me. He must have ran back to the car and flew to have caught up with me.
George’s truck was not there. So,
I was looking thru my CDs when I heard a tap on my half rolled down driver’s window. I looked and said, “Can I help you?” And then my back door came open on the other side and one jumped in and stuck a gun to my head and said, "This is a fucking car jack". I said, “I don’t fucking think so”. And he rammed the barrel between my eyes and said “I will fucking kill you". He was on top of the flipped down seats on his knees leaning forward half on top of me from behind. Then the other attacker opened the driver’s door and was trying to pull me out of the truck while I was belted in. The one behind me fell forward cause he was half on top of me when this happened and the gun was in his hand "right in front of me" no longer at the back of my head or pointing at me cause he fell forward. What seemed like slow motion, I was being pulled, hanging out the door by my belt, and I remember thinking before grabbing it if I wanted to do this. So, knowing this was my chance, I grabbed it with both hands "very tightly" and quickly, and I wrenched it from his hand making sure to not point it at me while the other was hitting me in the head and face and trying to pull me out. "My focus was on keeping the gun NOT pointed at me" and I did not even realize I was being hit… I had to have hurt the one’s trigger finger when I did that...
I got the gun and tried to shoot
"nothing"... I then stuck my foot on the horn non-stop, screaming,
"Mother fuckers I don't think so”. “Police… Police" over and
over still laying on the horn with my wedged foot, hanging out the door by my
belt and being hit... This went on for maybe 3minutes...
I pointed the gun at the driver’s door attacker and tried to fire again. I looked quickly (still being hit) to see if a safety was on so I could turn it "OFF" to shoot them, still hanging from my belt, upside down from my door being hit by both. I got myself up some from hanging out the door and smacked the one behind me with the gun and my elbow getting him off me long enough to release my belt while at that time the door attacker was trying to drag me from the truck by my hair and jacket. I fell out of the truck with the door attacker when the belt released. We wrestled a bit and stood up and I tried to fire the gun again “nothing”. I chased after him, trying to aim their gun, and talk to 911... I chased him about 50ft and he continued to run. The other was still in the truck and was climbing into the driver’s seat. Police was on the phone by now and I don't remember what all was said. "Help" being the first I am sure!
I was out of breath and adrenalin rushing and I seen
him climbing over, and ran back to the truck still trying to fire the gun and
then chased him out the other side of the truck and then down the street a bit.
I went back to "my truck" again and as the driver was trying to
pull away, I started my truck holding the gas pedal to the floor while dropping
it into drive, ramming into his car forcing him to go backward. (My tire hit him
no damage). Knowing... that was a sealed off direction (Wabash, Neal, and Grand
being the only exists that I immediately told 911 I had on the phone) of that
gated neighborhood and he (the car) would be easier to find.
Near the end of all this… There was at least 10 to 20 people standing around (a few on their cells) that heard all this noise (non-stop horn, and me cursing and screaming Police etc.) watching and none did anything to help me until afterward. I was the one with the gun by then and was chasing them. I "hope" they did not help because they did not know what to think... These... "Fucking kids" could not have been more then 16 to 19 years old pardon my French again...
"Unbelievable Youth Today".
They were KIDS for god's sake! Like seasoned criminals...
And I thought I was wild! I wish I had shot all three of the pieces of shit. And I wish I had Spanky (My Chow Retriever Mix doggie) with me like I normally do. I know he would have protected me! Or, they'd seen him and never tried this in the first place!
The police know who two of them are and where they live from the plate number myself and neighbors had gotten. The driver ditched the car in an alley in the gated neighborhood and he removed the plates but we had the numbers already. Plus, all the fingerprints on my truck I had washed not an hour before this all happened. The mother of one attacker owned the car and told the police as much as she could about her son, friends, and where they hang out to the detectives. I went Saturday morning 9am and left my statement with them. I was handed a card of the detective to call Monday and that was it! Sigh... They said the gun “was loaded” but do not yet know why it did not fire. I’ll know soon…
My jaw is swollen pretty good, I have a few knots on
my head, every muscle in my body aches, the transmission in my truck is acting
really messed up from slamming it in drive with the gas to the floor blocking
them, and my Windshield wiper Mist thing on the turn signal no longer works from
the fight. But, the thing that pissed me off the most was. "I broke 3
fingernails", That Missy fixed free later that night for me... What a
Day!
I still think most people are good-natured in spite of this, and in spite of the hour-long trunk "ride" I endurrrrrred when I was umm, 18 (34 now) that made this car jacking crime seem like a social gathering. Which, they (Leah Thompson I think and friends) were never caught. I just wish people would stand-up and get a legal-gun to carry. Maybe, if a few of these "fucking kids" were "Blown Away" like they deserve... crimes like this would not happen so often!!!
By The Way...
My NEW gun works!
Leda Xena Princess Warrior!
05-16-02
I went down to the detective's div. yesterday and from 9photos picked one of them out. Originally he had his hair braided down against his head but in the photo he had an afro. It took me about 20seconds.
The "kid" is 17years old and already on "parole" for a felony. Not sure what it is... Probably for steeling cars and now he's progressed into car jacking. I am sure he'll hang for this even if he sings like a bird about the other two.
Leda
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