Security officers stalked-assaulted
Charlotte NC Aug 19 2017
Three off-duty security officers have been attacked, robbed, shot and even had a home invasion but police say none of the incidents are related.
However, in two of the attacks, police say that the security officers were “targeted”.
In San Diego California, four armed men stormed into a Valencia Park home early Thursday, beat up the resident, a private security officer, and stole his wife’s Lexus with a gun in it, San Diego police said.
Hours later, officers got into a pursuit behind the stolen car and arrested the driver in the Webster neighborhood.
The robbers wore bandanna masks and carried a pistol, a baseball bat and a golf club when they turned up at the home on Cervantes Avenue, east of Euclid Avenue, police Lt. Eric Hays said.
They first knocked on the door or made some other noise on the front porch. The sounds woke the 32-year-old resident and he opened the front door, Hays said. That’s when the men barged inside.
They repeatedly asked where to find the victim’s 19-year-old stepson and a house safe. The victim was pistol-whipped across his face when he told them he didn’t know, Hays said.
Hays said the robbers ransacked the house for possibly about 10 minutes, then took the keys to a Lexus belonging to the victim’s wife. In the glove box was a gun belonging to the victim, who works as a security guard.
A neighbor who heard the commotion at the house called police about 3:40 a.m., saying the robbers left in the Lexus and two other cars.
The victim’s wife and stepson were not at home during the robbery. Hays said police were trying to find the teen to ask him about the intruders.
About 12:30 p.m., officers spotted the stolen Lexus near Euclid and Isla Vista Drive and tried to pull over the driver. They pursued the car until it stopped on Home Avenue near Euclid Avenue, where it sideswiped a parked car. Police got the driver into custody quickly. Two men and a woman ran from the Lexus.
One police car crashed into a metal fence around a park at the end of the pursuit. About a dozen patrol cars converged on the street.
A security officer, who police are not identifying, was in uniform and carrying a firearm when he was suddenly attacked while stopped at a red light.
Colorado police say that the man who works the overnight shift and travels the same roads to his job said that he was eating a snack while waiting for a red light to change when several men pointed guns at him and took his firearm, cellphone and his vehicle.
Denver police later recovered the car.
Police say the security officer was not injured.
And Philadelphia police say that an off-duty court security officer was shot multiple times over the week-end. Police confirmed that it was a targeted attack because the shooter would have needed a chair to reach high enough to fire through the bedroom window.
Police say the 58-year-old woman heard a noise and got out of bed to investigate.
“She looked outside, didn’t see anything. Then she heard multiple gunshots and the next thing you know, she felt a burning sensation,” said Philadelphia Police Captain George Fuchs.
The off-duty security officer was shot three times.
Police say they found bullet holes in the window screen, and the victim’s pillow.
During 2016, 14 security officers were targeted in off-duty attacks resulting in two deaths and numerous injuries.
