Challenger Blasts Sheriff Over Malibu Canyon Shooting Response
Written by 991KBU on October 12, 2018
The incumbent L A County sheriff was blasted by his election challenger … over the Malibu Canyon shootings.
Alex Villanueva called a news conference yesterday in Malibu Canyon.
He accused incumbent sheriff Jim McDonnell of incompetence … for having missed clues that a striong of shootings was occurring in Malibu Canyon.
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“We had seven separate shootings that occurred in the general vicinity of this park.
“And if you plot those on a map … that should stick out like a sore thumb.
“But the response that the community received from the sheriff’s department was none.
“Nothing.
“No one was alerted .. the park wasn’t closed.”
Sheriff’s deputies have said there was no observable trend … that a half dozen reports of gunfire in the park had ended more than a year before a car was shot and hit on Malibu Canyon Road last June.
The camper … Tristan Beaudette … was shot and killed one week later.
Villanueva is a retired sheriff’s lieutenant … trying to unseat McDonnell…. a former LAPD deputy chief and chief of the Long Beach Police Department.
