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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 2 May 2017

Police: Race not factor in San Diego pool party shooting

ELLIOT SPAGAT party for a man’s 50th birth-
JULIE WATSON day Sunday at an apart-
Associated Press ment complex near the
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A gun- University of California, San
man despondent over a Diego. At one point the
recent breakup opened guest of honor invited the
fire at a poolside birthday man to join the party. That’s
party and phoned his ex- when Selis drew a hand-
girlfriend as he kept shoot- gun and shot the honoree
ing strangers, killing one in the torso, said Demetrius
woman and wounding six Griffin, a friend at the party.
other partygoers before he “He didn’t stand up. He sat
was killed by officers, po- the whole time. Even when
lice said Monday. he reloaded his magazine,
Peter Selis, 49, sat on a pool he sat in his chair,” said Grif-
chair during most of the fin. “It was very eerie, to say
rampage, calmly shooting the least. He didn’t stand
guests at the party with a up. He didn’t say anything.
.45-caliber handgun. The He just opened fire.”
victims were black and After shooting two people,
Latino and Selis was white, Selis called his ex-girlfriend
but police don’t think race and said what he’d done
played a factor. and that police were there
“These victims were just in and then continued firing.
his vicinity when he com- “It is apparent that Selis Demetrius Griffin, who was a guest at a Sunday, April 30, 2017, poolside birthday party at which a
mitted this terrible trage- wanted his ex-girlfriend to gunman opened deadly fire, stands outside the San Diego complex as he describes what he saw
dy,” Chief Shelley Zimmer- listen in as he carried out on Monday, May 1. He said Peter Selis sat on a pool chair during most of the rampage, calmly
man said. “What started as his rampage,” Zimmer- shooting guests at the party. “He didn’t stand up. He sat the whole time. Even when he reloaded
a celebration of a friend’s man said. Selis shot four his magazine, he sat in his chair,” said Griffin.
birthday party turned into black women, two black (AP Photo/Julie Watson)
a tragedy of epic propor- men and one Latino man, survive, Zimmerman said. ky Galiendes, 27, said he sixth-story apartment in Uni-
tions.” Witnesses said Selis police said. Two victims Another man was taken to heard between eight to versity City, a diverse neigh-
was wearing a black coat remained in critical condi- the hospital after he broke 10 gunshots around 6 p.m. borhood near the campus.
and sitting alone during the tion, but were expected to his arm running away. Rik- and looked outside his q

Dallas paramedic shooting suspect found dead, 2nd body found

CLAUDIA LAUER hood was now over. approached, opened fire paramedic, including their ing to an active shooter
Associated Press Interim Police Chief David and critically injured the names, have been re- were “pinned down” by
DALLAS (AP) — A man sus- Pughes said it’s believed paramedic. leased. gunfire.
pected of shooting and the shooting started as a A second person also was Pughes said a police officer A 33-year-old woman wait-
critically injuring a para- dispute between the sus- found dead in the home, was injured during the initial ing in the shade of a gas
medic who was tending to pected gunman and the though no details have altercation with the suspect station across the street
a shooting victim on Mon- victim whom emergency been released about that and treated at the scene. from a police barricade
day has been found dead responders were trying person. Dozens of police vehi- told The Associated Press
in a Dallas home, ending to help out on the street. Rawlings said the para- cles swarmed the mostly that her mother lives in the
a threat that locked down Pughes said the two were medic underwent surgery residential area after the neighborhood and saw
the neighborhood for neighbors. and was in intensive care in shooting was reported near SWAT teams arrive Mon-
hours, authorities said. “That was what was initially critical but stable condition a local Fire Training Acade- day.
A police robot found two reported to the officers on at Baylor University Medical my. Several people from a Brenda Salazar said she was
bodies in a home east of the scene, that it was just Center. nearby neighborhood and headed to the area to visit
downtown, including that a simple dispute between The mayor said the para- some relatives of people her mother when she heard
of the suspected gunman, two neighbors that escalat- medic will “have to under- who live in the barricaded about the shooting on the
as authorities scoured the ed into a shooting,” Pughes go extensive medical treat- area gathered at a nearby radio. She called her moth-
neighborhood following said. ment.” gas station to await up- er, who told her she didn’t
the shooting, Dallas Mayor Authorities said that as The mayor said the injured dates from police. hear any shooting but “saw
Mike Rawlings said during a emergency responders civilian also was in inten- The Dallas Police Associa- the SWAT guys and police
news conference. He said treated the civilian who’d sive care. No other details tion tweeted earlier Mon- setting up and going into
the threat to the neighbor- been shot, another person about the neighbor or the day that officers respond- the neighborhood.”q