![]() ![]() Since the accidents, city staff has reviewed traffic safety measures and standards at Stoneman Avenue and other areas citywide as well as looked at what could be implemented around schools and other high-traffic intersections in the city. “There is a lot of speeding and traffic concerns on the street in the daytime as well as the night and this particular situation with the loss of Brooke has really kind of gotten people focused on addressing safety concerns around our campuses.” “This was just a really tragic situation all the way around,” Golden Gate Community School Principal Doug Corbin later said. ![]() Three days after Jeffrey was killed, another pedestrian was struck in a hit-and-run on 10th Street near West Street some three miles away but the person survived. The driver, 34-year-old Roberto Sainez, drove off and later was arrested and charged with vehicular manslaughter, felony hit and run and concealing evidence, Pittsburg Police Chief Steve Albanese told the council on Monday. Mayor Shanelle Scales-Preston also asked staff to return with a report on traffic safety measures and progress on the project near Golden Gate Community School where the teenager was hit.īrooke Jeffrey, 17, was fatally struck in the evening of March 7 by a hit-and-run driver while she was in the dark crosswalk - the new warning light fixture was not yet activated - on Stoneman Avenue at Briarcliff Drive while walking to meet her mother for a ride home. ![]() The report about ongoing traffic safety measures and what could be done in the future comes after the teen’s friends and community members demanded action during a recent council meeting. KTVU reporter Henry Lee contributed to this report.Only weeks after a Pittsburg teenager was killed in a crosswalk near her school, city staff assured residents and council members that some additional safety measures - including a push-button-activated crosswalk light to alert drivers about pedestrians - would soon be operable there. The Pittsburg Police Department’s independent outside investigator is also conducting an independent investigation. "It's quite possible that he did manipulate the handgun to where he cycled it, ejecting that live round onto the ground," Albanese said.Īs is standard policy, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office will be conducting an independent investigation into the shooting. Authorities say they may never know for certain, but it's possible he may have tried to fire it but mistakenly ejected the round. Police said they recovered Watkins' gun, which was unloaded, but there was a live round found next to him. It's unclear from the video if Watkins had died already, which is why he wouldn't have let go of the gun.Īfter that, paramedics tried to save him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. ![]() Simpson fired his gun twice, as he said he saw Watkins still pointing his gun at him and his colleague, police said.īecause the gun was still in his hand and pointing in the direction of the police, the department said the officers waited 40 minutes before using ballistic shields to walk up to him and take the gun out of his hand. Odell fired three shots and struck Watkins in the torso. ![]()
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