BY BRIAN ROKOS / STAFF WRITER
Published: June 5, 2015 Updated: 9:01 p.m.
image0-RIVERSIDE: Security guard stabbed in melee as mom tries to free tagger son
A clerk and a security guard were injured in a melee with a tagger and his family at a Dollar Tree in Riverside on Thursday, June 4, the Police Department said.
About 3:30 p.m. at the store at 4721 La Sierra Ave., an employee caught a boy vandalizing the bathroom with graffiti, Officer Javier Cabrera said. As the employee escorted the boy out of the store, the boy’s mother intervened, throwing the female employee to the floor and kicking her in the head.
When a security guard tried to help, the mother and her adult son attacked the guard, Cabrera said. During the fight, someone — it’s unclear who — stabbed the security guard.
The mother and the adult son were arrested, but the boy got away, Cabrera said. Police expect to arrest him soon.
The guard was treated at a hospital for injuries that Cabrera described as not life threatening.
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Concert security guard punching handcuffed man
SACRAMENTO – A security guard escorting a disruptive concertgoer in handcuffs from a radio station-sponsored concert was caught on camera punching the man twice in the head.
A man in attendance at a concert in Sacramento’s Discovery Park on Sunday recorded security personnel punching a disruptive concertgoer as they led him away. News10/KXTV
The man being taken away from the Sunday 102.5 Live event at Discovery Park had thrown the first punch after exchanging words with security guards near the stage.
The man was subdued and handcuffed and being led away behind a backstage fence about 90 seconds after the initial altercation when the guard who had been the target of first punch responded with a blow to the man’s face with his left hand and to the back of his head with his right.
The video was provided to News10 by an employee of the company that staged the concert who said he was troubled by the security guard’s attack.
Darryl Liner, the owner of the firm that provided security for the event, congratulated the team on his Facebook page for the overall concert security, but declined to comment when sent a link to the video of the backstage incident.
Veteran criminal defense attorney Mark Reichel said private security guards have no more police power than an average citizen and generally receive far less training than a sworn peace officer.
“This is excessive,” Reichel said after reviewing the video. “If he was law enforcement, there’s a chance he might be charged with a crime.”
The name of the disruptive concertgoer was unavailable and News10 could find no evidence that he was even arrested.
Reichel said both the security guard and his employer could be held liable if the man decides to sue.
“I would hope the security company fires this individual to make a statement,” he said.
An employee of a concert promoter captured video of a security guard punching a disruptive concertgoer while leading him away during a concert at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Sunday.News10/KXTV
5th-grader takes security guard’s gun at school, officials say
ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. —A fifth-grade student was somehow able to get the gun of a security guard Monday at his elementary school, according to school officials..
Anderson District 5 public information officer Kyle Newton said that the student took the gun from the holster of the private security guard who was working at Varennes Elementary.
Newton said the security guard was sitting down with students sitting on either side of him as he talked to them both.
The guard said when he turned his head to talk to the student on the left, the student on the right removed the gun from his holster.
The guard said the student only had the gun for a matter of seconds.
The gun was not fired and no one was injured, officials said.
The guard worked for Defender Services. He no longer works at the school, Newton said.
The student has been disciplined for taking the gun, Newton said.
A recorded message about the incident went out to parents Wednesday afternoon, two days after the incident and hours after WYFF News4 reported
“I’ve talked to couple of parents, and they’re irate that they weren’t notified either,” said Teresa Trice, who picked up her daughter after hearing about the incident on WYFF News4. “I told them, I said, ‘I want my daughter. I want to get my daughter out because of the incident.’ And the secretary said, ‘That happened two days ago.’ I said, ‘Well, that makes it even worse.’ The principal was standing next to her and never said a word, never said a word.”
Newton said District 5 uses the security guards in rotation with school resource officers at the elementary schools because it’s the only affordable way to have security at all the schools all day, every day.
Newton said the district started using Defender Services this year and hasn’t had any issues with the company.
Newton told WYFF News4’s Mike McCormick that most of the security guards are former law enforcement officers or have served in the military.
Defender Services would not comment on the incident.
CA. Security Officer Shoots-Kills Armed Man
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S/O Critically Injured During Shoot-Out
MARCH 9 2015
LOS ANGELES CA
A security officer at a Hyde Park marijuana dispensary was involved in a gun battle with three robbery suspects Sunday and was critically injured.
Multiple gunshots were fired at about 7:20 p.m. at the dispensary at 54th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard according to police.
The armed men entered the business and engaged the security guard in a shootout that left him with three bullet wounds. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
The three suspects fled the scene and remained at large. No description was immediately available.
Los Angeles police said the shooting may be gang related. They did not report what if anything was taken.
Police said that they are not sure that the business was properly licensed.
An investigation was ongoing.
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Family: shooting involving security guard unjustified
6:28 a.m. PST February 24, 2015
A Sacramento man remained in the hospital after being shot by a security guard. The man’s family was calling the shooting unjustified and demanding a full police investigation.
Sulman Hafeez has been in and out of surgery at Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center with damage to his kidney, pancreas and stomach.
The 33-year-old was recovering from a gunshot wound he sustained Sunday night outside a 7-Eleven on Mack Road and Center Parkway.
The man who pulled the trigger is a security guard with Cal Force Security.
“A security guard shot my nephew without probable cause, with excessive force,” said Khalid Mahmood, Hafeez’s uncle.
Hafeez’s relatives said the shooting was not justified, given that he was unarmed.
The events that led up to the shooting are not 100 percent clear. Hafeez told his family that he was intoxicated when he went to the 7-Eleven.
“From what we heard, he was just in there a long time and they told him to leave and he left,” said Kamron Anwar, Hafeez’s cousin.
Once outside, the family said Hafeez began urinating along the storefront. That’s when the unidentified security guard stepped in to restrain him.
But Hafeez resisted being handcuffed and the guard began to use force.
“He tased him twice, pepper sprayed him and shot him over urinating,” said Anwar. “He could have just called the real cops if it was that serious.”
The security guard told police he fired his gun because he feared for his life.
That’s a valid requirement for use of deadly force, according to the firearms training manual for the bureau of Security and Investigative Services under the Dept. of Consumer Affairs.
Under their guidelines, a “firearm may be used only when there is a clear and present danger to life and when other defensive methods are inappropriate or have failed.”
But Hafeez’s family didn’t think the security guard’s life was ever in any danger.
The shooting remains under investigation.
News 10 reached out to Cal Force Security but they refused to comment.
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Security Guard Shot Dead At Illegal San Bernardino Marijuana Dis – Los Angeles News | FOX 11 LA KTTV
San Bernardino, CA –
And suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, a mother’s wail pierces the silence.
All eyes turn from the coroner’s investigators wheeling their gurney to a woman running through the parking lot.
She is a mother and on that gurney is the body of her 25 year old son.
The wail…that wail, a mournful expression of love lost. It is a sound and a scene like no other.
On the gurney, the body of Anthony Victor Pineda whom police say was working as a security guard inside an unmarked medical marijuana dispensary in San Bernardino when on Monday night two armed men trying to rob the business, shot him.
With a fire station right around the corner, firefighter-paramedics arrived on the scene quickly to help the guard, who had been shot inside the shop.
But they weren’t able to get to him right away because police say the employees had locked the doors and wouldn’t let the paramedics in.
They wouldn’t unlock the doors for the police either.
Let me repeat that.
Police say they found the doors locked, the front door and the back door, even though the security guard who had been shot was still inside.
No one there, and the employees were still there, would unlock the doors for paramedics to get to the guard, according to police.
It wasn’t until an officer broke the glass on the front door that medics were able to get to Pineda, but by that time, he was dead.
He was dead.
“It’s cold hearted and callous”, said Lt. Richard Lawhead of the San Bernardino Police Department. “To think that someone may be suffering, needs help and you lock the help out and refuse to open the door?”
Police believe Pineda, his car still parked outside the shop with his credentials to cover the Academy Awards on Sunday proudly displayed on his front windshield, was able to shoot at least one of the gunmen.
And because of a long and bloody trail left behind by the gunmen, they believe that man may be seriously injured.
Police also believe there is video footage from a high-tech surveillance system found inside the shop that may show who the killers are but those employees, the same ones police say locked the doors? Well, they wouldn’t help the police view the video either.
“It’s frustrating. To us and it’s frustrating to the victim’s family”, said Lawhead. “If someone is out there killing people, then we want to catch them. We want to put them in jail but we can’t do it alone. People know what happened here and they’re being uncooperative.”
Watching a mother sob uncontrollably as her son’s body is driven away in the back of a coroner’s truck isn’t easy.
It’s not comfortable nor is it pretty, as they say.
Death isn’t pretty. And murder is downright ugly.
But it’s part of the story because once you’ve heard a mother’s wail, you know the killer didn’t just take that young man’s life.
He killed a piece of that mother too.
And who knows how many more that loved Anthony Pineda.
The killer is out there. Somewhere. And someone knows exactly who he is.
And while it appears that a lot of people didn’t do the right thing last night, hopefully someone will do the right thing now.
You know what that is.
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Man sentenced in stabbing of Salinas store security guard
Man sentenced in stabbing of Salinas store security guard.
Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 5:35 pm
Richard Gutierrez was sentenced to 26 years to life today for stabbing a security guard to death last August in Salinas.
On August 2, 2013, 22-year-old Gutierrez walked into the 99 Cent Store at 102 E. Lauren Dr. and attacked the store’s security guard Victor Sosa, 57, with a knife. Shoppers threw canned goods at Gutierrez in an attempt to get him away from the guard.
Sosa died a short time later at Natividad Medical Center where Gutierrez also was taken for his injuries. Gutierrez was then taken to the Monterey County Jail and booked on charges of attempted robbery and homicide.
According to witnesses at the scene, Gutierrez had entered and left the store multiple times before the attack. The final time he entered, he stood near a cash register, then grabbed the guard and attacked him.
Monterey County Deputy District Attorney Rolando Mazariegos says Gutierrez pleaded to first-degree murder with use of a knife. At the time of the arrest, Mazariegos says Gutierrez was also charged with attempted robbery, but that charge was dropped.
“It seemed like a robbery, but the scene was disorganized and senseless, so it was hard to know if he was there for a robbery,” says Mazariegos. “He was arrested minutes after leaving the store and he was covered in blood.”
Mazariegos says Monterey County Superior Judge Pamela Butler sentenced Gutierrez and he did not say anything when the punishment given. Sosa’s widow spoke.
“She was in tears and visibly distraught. It seemed very difficult for her to express all the pain she was feeling as a result of losing her husband,” says Mazariegos. “I think she touched everyone in the courtroom.”
According to Mazariegos, Gutierrez had his head down and did not react to her statements.
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