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I am so sorry..I forgot the link!!!
Here:
http://www.news10.net/story/news/crime/2014/02/20/indian-rancheria-mass-shooting/5660823/
and thanks to Go Voles:
http://www.redding.com/news/2014/feb/20/four-dead-two-injured-alturas-shooting/
Not clear if she was the ..evictee...but can't think of why she would be so upset if she wasn't.
details still sketchy...
A woman at an eviction hearing at the Cedarville Rancheria Northern Paiute Tribe office got upset during the proceedings. She stood up and started shooting, the Modoc County Record said.
The woman shot and killed an Alturas police officer before shooting and killing three other people. Another person shot and wounded while running out of the building. The woman then picked up a butcher's knife and stabbed a sixth person.
The suspect was arrested at the scene.
840high
(17,196 posts)JJChambers
(1,115 posts)Why were there no metal detectors? Why was there a butcher knife accessible in the midst of this hearing ?
pipoman
(16,038 posts)a hearing in a state court. The hearing I went to on a Kickapoo reservation was very informal and more like a conversation than a court hearing. It was a council and was held at a community center.
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)Was this hearing on tribal land? How can one be allowed to be armed?
pipoman
(16,038 posts)The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)The perp wasn't about to obey that law either.
1000words
(7,051 posts)The altercation would have only occurred sooner.
billh58
(6,635 posts)a butcher knife, so all of those gun deaths don't count...
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, February 20, 8:23 PM
ALTURAS, Calif. Police say four people are dead and two others are wounded in a shooting Thursday inside an American Indian tribal headquarters in Northern California.
Alturas Police Chief Ken Barnes says that 44-year-old Sherrie Rhoades is in custody in Modoc County Jail after allegedly opening fire around 3:30 p.m. at the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office and Community Center
Barnes says in a report carried by KRCR-TV (http://bit.ly/1mg4r43) that the four dead included a 19-year-old woman, a 30-year-old man, a 45-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man. The police chief says one of the victims is the tribes leader.
According to Barnes, members were holding a meeting on evicting Rhoades and her son from the Rancheria, which, according to its website, is a federally recognized tribe with 35 members.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/police-4-dead-2-injured-in-n-calif-shooting/2014/02/20/f1b10a32-9aaf-11e3-9900-dd917233cf9c_story.html
springchick
(137 posts)and condolences to the family members.