I know a lot of you in vallejo have seen the "Dreams" Ice Cream Truck....the dudes who owned it and drove it around town bumpin Mac Dre are the 2 guys who were killed in Glen Cove the other night.
Does anyone have the link to their myspace page? I can't freakin find it anywhere.
******Violence in Vallejo
Ice cream truck partners slain in double homicide
By MATTHIAS GAFNI, ROBERT MCCOCKRAN and J.M. BROWN, Times-Herald staff writers
Article Launched: 01/19/2007 07:02:27 AM PST
Wednesday's Glen Cove double homicide, which involved ice cream truck business partners, may be related to a Vallejo slaying two weeks ago, sources told the Times-Herald on Thursday.
Meanwhile, another man was in critical condition Thursday from multiple wounds received in a drive-by shooting less than two miles from the double slaying. It's unclear if that case is related to the others.
The double slaying, reported at 8:40 p.m. Wednesday at 251 Neptunes Court lifts the city's homicide count this year to four, in less than three weeks. The city had only six homicides in 2006.
Details emerged Thursday on the recent shootings from police, as well as a slaying victim's mother and several associates of the victims.
James Werder, 35, and Manuel Caldera Jr., 27, who operated Dream's Ice Cream truck, were found shot to death in the Neptunes Court residence Wednesday night.
Caldera was the "best friend" of Eli Isaac Griffin, the 29-year-old Vallejo man shot and killed Jan. 3 in the Sereno Village apartment complex parking lot, Griffin's mother said Thursday. Police confirmed Griffin knew one of the victims in the Neptunes Court case.
How the two slayings are possibly connected is still unclear, but Wednesday's double homicide has left Griffin's mother Eva Murietta afraid to leave her house.
"I'm just so worried and so upset because of another murder now and that was my son's best friend," said Murietta, who knew Caldera by his nickname "Tiny."
"Why is this happening? I'm so scared," she said. "I'm just laying in bed and I'm sick. I'm not well. I'm nervous. I'm scared to go out. I don't know if we need protection or this is connected or anything. I'm afraid to go outside."
A Vallejo police spokesman said detectives are investigating any possible connections between the recent shootings.
"We'd be negligent if we didn't look at the totality of what's going on in town," said spokesman Lt. Rick Nichelman.
And a lot has been going on.
As police were still investigating the Neptunes Court victims, a 28-year-old Vallejo man was shot multiple times in a drive-by in the unincorporated Homeacres area as he walked to a store, according to the Solano Sheriff's Office.
Deputies responded to the call around 10:30 a.m. in the 1100 block of Fulton Avenue, and the victim was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, where he underwent surgery. A coroner's official came to the scene at one point when it appeared the victim may not make it, but he was revived, officials said.
The sheriff's investigators did not release the man's name, and his condition was not available at press time Thursday.
The suspects are unknown, but police are seeking two black men, wearing white-hooded sweatshirts and driving a white vehicle, possibly a Dodge Intrepid with tinted windows, authorities said.
Despite the close proximity and time of the double homicide and Thursday's drive-by shooting, sheriff's officials haven't connected the two crimes.
"We don't have anything at this point that links it," said Deputy Daryl Snedeker.
Police were tipped off to the nearby double slaying after receiving an anonymous call around 8:40 p.m. Wednesday. Reports indicate the call came from the Safeway in Glen Cove, but police and store employees declined to confirm it.
Nichelman, the Vallejo police spokesman, said investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the shooting. He declined to say whether drugs or drug paraphernalia were found in the home, whether the men were shot more than once or if there was evidence of a struggle.
When officers knocked on the door of the Neptunes Court home and got no answer Wednesday night, they went around the side, Nichelman said. When they peered through a window, they spotted the bodies.
When officers forced entry, they were confronted by a dog that was protective and "kind of vicious," but they subdued it, Nichelman said.
The property owner, Vallejo planning commissioner Norman Turley, said he has rented the home to a 30-year-old landscaper named Francisco Molina, 30. Molina did not answer his cell phone Thursday, and family members declined to comment on his connection to the case.
Turley said he and Molina, who always paid his $1650 monthly rent in cash and on time, had "a good relationship." Turley said he had not received any complaints from neighbors about Molina, but had felt "something there was not quite kosher" when he first rented the house to Molina.
The slaying is a rarity for Glen Cove, a waterfront neighborhood of Vallejo that experiences a lower crime rate than many other parts of the city. Residents were concerned the shooting resulted from an interrupted burglary, but police indicated they believe the case was not a random burglary because the victims appeared to be targeted.
"We don't even have burglar alarms here - we're talking about doing that," said one resident, who declined to give her name, citing safety concerns.
"It's pretty scary - we moved to Glen Cove thinking it was a safe little area. I guess it can happen anywhere."
Neighbor Mauricio Velasquez said he often saw suspicious cars at the house. A couple weeks ago, his brother had called police when a suspicious looking SUV parked in front of the house early one morning.
"It's weird, you live in a neighborhood where you think everything is cool," Velasquez said.
James Laxa and his family, who live across the street, celebrated their daughter's third birthday Wednesday night, but he said he heard nothing unusual all night.
Vallejo police are also investigating the Jan. 14 shooting death of 30-year-old Vallejoan Jose Corona inside My Office tavern in the 2400 block of Sacramento Street. Police have made two arrests in the year's first Vallejo homicide, the shooting death of Griffin.
Griffin's mother said Thursday she will attend a Wednesday arraignment for both Mario Espinoza Matthews and Arthur Fitzgerald Appling Jr., the men charged with her son's murder.
"I don't know who they are and I want to see their faces," Murietta said.
Griffin was shot as he walked to the store to get groceries for his mother, Murietta said.
"I heard that they shot him in the back and they stole a few dollars from him," she said.
Murietta said Griffin had not had problems with others. "He would just work at home taking care of his daughter. He raised his baby. He was home taking care of his baby. That's why we don't understand," she said.
Griffin's mother said she's concerned that more violence could occur.
"I'm worried for the other people, the young children, to go outside. I don't know why they're shooting and who's doing this. I don't know what the connection is."
RIP Jimmy and Tiny
Does anyone have the link to their myspace page? I can't freakin find it anywhere.
******Violence in Vallejo
Ice cream truck partners slain in double homicide
By MATTHIAS GAFNI, ROBERT MCCOCKRAN and J.M. BROWN, Times-Herald staff writers
Article Launched: 01/19/2007 07:02:27 AM PST
Wednesday's Glen Cove double homicide, which involved ice cream truck business partners, may be related to a Vallejo slaying two weeks ago, sources told the Times-Herald on Thursday.
Meanwhile, another man was in critical condition Thursday from multiple wounds received in a drive-by shooting less than two miles from the double slaying. It's unclear if that case is related to the others.
The double slaying, reported at 8:40 p.m. Wednesday at 251 Neptunes Court lifts the city's homicide count this year to four, in less than three weeks. The city had only six homicides in 2006.
Details emerged Thursday on the recent shootings from police, as well as a slaying victim's mother and several associates of the victims.
James Werder, 35, and Manuel Caldera Jr., 27, who operated Dream's Ice Cream truck, were found shot to death in the Neptunes Court residence Wednesday night.
Caldera was the "best friend" of Eli Isaac Griffin, the 29-year-old Vallejo man shot and killed Jan. 3 in the Sereno Village apartment complex parking lot, Griffin's mother said Thursday. Police confirmed Griffin knew one of the victims in the Neptunes Court case.
How the two slayings are possibly connected is still unclear, but Wednesday's double homicide has left Griffin's mother Eva Murietta afraid to leave her house.
"I'm just so worried and so upset because of another murder now and that was my son's best friend," said Murietta, who knew Caldera by his nickname "Tiny."
"Why is this happening? I'm so scared," she said. "I'm just laying in bed and I'm sick. I'm not well. I'm nervous. I'm scared to go out. I don't know if we need protection or this is connected or anything. I'm afraid to go outside."
A Vallejo police spokesman said detectives are investigating any possible connections between the recent shootings.
"We'd be negligent if we didn't look at the totality of what's going on in town," said spokesman Lt. Rick Nichelman.
And a lot has been going on.
As police were still investigating the Neptunes Court victims, a 28-year-old Vallejo man was shot multiple times in a drive-by in the unincorporated Homeacres area as he walked to a store, according to the Solano Sheriff's Office.
Deputies responded to the call around 10:30 a.m. in the 1100 block of Fulton Avenue, and the victim was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, where he underwent surgery. A coroner's official came to the scene at one point when it appeared the victim may not make it, but he was revived, officials said.
The sheriff's investigators did not release the man's name, and his condition was not available at press time Thursday.
The suspects are unknown, but police are seeking two black men, wearing white-hooded sweatshirts and driving a white vehicle, possibly a Dodge Intrepid with tinted windows, authorities said.
Despite the close proximity and time of the double homicide and Thursday's drive-by shooting, sheriff's officials haven't connected the two crimes.
"We don't have anything at this point that links it," said Deputy Daryl Snedeker.
Police were tipped off to the nearby double slaying after receiving an anonymous call around 8:40 p.m. Wednesday. Reports indicate the call came from the Safeway in Glen Cove, but police and store employees declined to confirm it.
Nichelman, the Vallejo police spokesman, said investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the shooting. He declined to say whether drugs or drug paraphernalia were found in the home, whether the men were shot more than once or if there was evidence of a struggle.
When officers knocked on the door of the Neptunes Court home and got no answer Wednesday night, they went around the side, Nichelman said. When they peered through a window, they spotted the bodies.
When officers forced entry, they were confronted by a dog that was protective and "kind of vicious," but they subdued it, Nichelman said.
The property owner, Vallejo planning commissioner Norman Turley, said he has rented the home to a 30-year-old landscaper named Francisco Molina, 30. Molina did not answer his cell phone Thursday, and family members declined to comment on his connection to the case.
Turley said he and Molina, who always paid his $1650 monthly rent in cash and on time, had "a good relationship." Turley said he had not received any complaints from neighbors about Molina, but had felt "something there was not quite kosher" when he first rented the house to Molina.
The slaying is a rarity for Glen Cove, a waterfront neighborhood of Vallejo that experiences a lower crime rate than many other parts of the city. Residents were concerned the shooting resulted from an interrupted burglary, but police indicated they believe the case was not a random burglary because the victims appeared to be targeted.
"We don't even have burglar alarms here - we're talking about doing that," said one resident, who declined to give her name, citing safety concerns.
"It's pretty scary - we moved to Glen Cove thinking it was a safe little area. I guess it can happen anywhere."
Neighbor Mauricio Velasquez said he often saw suspicious cars at the house. A couple weeks ago, his brother had called police when a suspicious looking SUV parked in front of the house early one morning.
"It's weird, you live in a neighborhood where you think everything is cool," Velasquez said.
James Laxa and his family, who live across the street, celebrated their daughter's third birthday Wednesday night, but he said he heard nothing unusual all night.
Vallejo police are also investigating the Jan. 14 shooting death of 30-year-old Vallejoan Jose Corona inside My Office tavern in the 2400 block of Sacramento Street. Police have made two arrests in the year's first Vallejo homicide, the shooting death of Griffin.
Griffin's mother said Thursday she will attend a Wednesday arraignment for both Mario Espinoza Matthews and Arthur Fitzgerald Appling Jr., the men charged with her son's murder.
"I don't know who they are and I want to see their faces," Murietta said.
Griffin was shot as he walked to the store to get groceries for his mother, Murietta said.
"I heard that they shot him in the back and they stole a few dollars from him," she said.
Murietta said Griffin had not had problems with others. "He would just work at home taking care of his daughter. He raised his baby. He was home taking care of his baby. That's why we don't understand," she said.
Griffin's mother said she's concerned that more violence could occur.
"I'm worried for the other people, the young children, to go outside. I don't know why they're shooting and who's doing this. I don't know what the connection is."
RIP Jimmy and Tiny
