Homeowner opens fire on suspected burglar — who heads into another residence, steals truck, leads cops on high-speed chase



A homeowner in Sacramento, California, opened fire on a suspected burglar Friday afternoon, and the alleged crook headed into a different residence, stole a truck, and then led police on a high-speed chase.

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office told KOVR-TV it received a 3 p.m. call about a burglary along Chandler Drive in south Sacramento.

Sheriff's spokesperson Amar Gandhi said in KOVR's video report that the suspect is a 'lifelong criminal' with a record showing more than 20 years of 'theft charges, gun charges, drug charges — you name it, he's got everything under the sun.'

Deputies told KCRA-TV the alleged thief — 40-year-old Emelio Correa — tried to break in; the family inside shouted for him to go away, but he refused.

Authorities told the station the suspect failed to get into the home — and investigators said the homeowner fired at least one gunshot at the suspect, KOVR noted. Deputies indicated the homeowner — a legal gun owner — shot the suspect in the hand, KCRA-TV reported, adding that the suspect's blood was left behind at the scene.

KOVR's video report about the incident shows police investigating a front-entrance window with a large bullet hole.

However, the suspect did get inside a different residence soon after. The owner of the second home told KRCA the suspect got in because the front door was accidentally left unlocked.

With that, the suspect entered the garage, found keys on a truck's front seat, and led deputies on a high-speed chase on Highway 99, KCRA reported.

Cuong Nguyen — the owner of the second residence — wasn't home during the incident but told KCRA the suspect plowed right into his garage door to steal his truck, after which half his garage door was "in the middle of the street" when he returned.

The chase ended after Correa hit spike strips near Arno Road and rolled the truck into a ditch, KCRA reported. The suspect was then taken into custody, KOVR noted.

Correa suffered minor injuries and was being held in Sacramento County jail on a $100,000 bond, KCRA reported, adding that he was expected in court Tuesday to face four felonies.

You can view KCRA's video report here.

Sheriff's spokesperson Amar Gandhi said in KOVR's video report that the suspect is a "lifelong criminal" with a record showing more than 20 years of "theft charges, gun charges, drug charges — you name it, he's got everything under the sun."

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Sacramento threatens Target with fine for reporting rampant retail theft to police: Report



The Sacramento City Attorney's Office recently threatened to slap Target with an administrative fine for phoning police about a number of retail theft incidents, according to the Sacramento Bee.

The report stated that a source, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation, claimed that the Target, located at 2505 Riverside Blvd in Land Park, was warned by city officials that it could face a public nuisance charge if it continues to report instances of theft. The news outlet noted that a law enforcement spokesperson confirmed the location.

'Victims are being threatened for even reporting crimes.'

The City Attorney's Office and the Sacramento Police Department told the Sacramento Bee that they were unaware of any litigation threats. City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood's office did not grant the Sacramento Bee's request for an interview.

In response to the alleged threats and similar actions across the state, lawmakers added an amendment to a retail theft bill, prohibiting authorities from making such threats.

During an assembly retail theft committee meeting, Alexander Gammelgard, president of the California Police Chiefs Association, stated that he was "surprised that anyone would ever attempt to make a nuisance case out of somebody calling to report a legitimate crime."

"I don't think there is a place for that," he added.

California Assembly GOP Leader James Gallagher told Fox News Digital, "[Governor Gavin] Newsom keeps insisting that reports of theft are dropping — well, now we know why. Not only are thieves let off without even a slap on the wrist, but now the victims are being threatened for even reporting crimes."

"Everyone can see that Newsom's pro-criminal policies are a failure — no matter how much his allies try to cover it up," Gallagher said.

Criminal defense attorney Nicole Castronovo blamed soft-on-crime policies for the increase in retail thefts in the area.

"Lawmakers have allowed smash and grab robberies to terrorize our cities. As a consequence, retailers are leaving major cities in droves — taking jobs with them," Castronovo told Fox News Digital.

"Now the government seeks to silence those retailers and, in turn, manufacturers lower crime rates," Castronovo continued. "No citizen should ever be penalized for lawfully calling upon its government for protection."

Land Parks neighbors have expressed their frustrations with the area's crime crisis.

Kristina Rogers, president of the Land Park Community Association, told KOVR last year regarding the Target location, "It's really disturbing and disheartening when you are standing there in line paying for things and someone is just walking out the door with a cart full of stuff."

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'He didn't deserve this': Boy accused of murdering fellow 10-year-old boy with felonious father's forbidden gun



A 10-year-old boy in the Foothill Farms area of Sacramento County was arrested over the weekend and charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Keith Frierson, also 10.

According to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the 4700 block of Greenholme Drive around 4:30 p.m. Saturday in response to a report of a shooting. They found Frierson unresponsive in the middle of the parking lot and bleeding from his head and neck. Deputies administered CPR and life-saving efforts until members of the Sacramento Metro Fire District arrived and did likewise.

The boy was taken to a local hospital, where he ultimately succumbed to his wounds.

"He was smart, very intelligent, kind, loving, respectful," Erika, the victim's aunt, told KCRA-TV. "He didn't deserve this. He still had a whole life to live."

Erika indicated that "he wasn't even outside 15 minutes, and the little boy shot my nephew."

A friend of the victim's mother indicated on the page of a fundraiser for the family that Frierson had gone outside after completing his chores to ride around on his "new Christmas bike—a joyful moment turned to sorrow."

"He said, 'Can I go ride my bike?' That’s the last time I saw my baby alive," Brittani Frierson, the boy's mother, told KXTV-TV. "Next time I saw my baby, he was gone on this ground."

Witnesses told deputies the individual responsible ducked into a nearby apartment after the shooting. Upon identifying the apartment, deputies called out the adult and two juveniles inside, detaining all three. The adult they arrested has been identified as Arkete Davis, 53.

The New York Post indicated Davis is a felon with an extensive criminal history of fraud, theft, and drug charges, having run afoul of the law both in California and Texas.

On the basis of witness interviews and evidence found at the scene, detectives deduced that Davis' 10-year-old son went to his father's car to get the felon a pack of cigarettes. The SCSO indicated the suspect "took a gun from inside the vehicle and bragged that his father had a gun."

Officials confirmed that Davis is legally prohibited from possessing or owning a firearm. The likely murder weapon recovered at the scene was reported stolen in 2017.

After bragging about having his father's verboten gun, the suspect allegedly shot the victim then fled. His father is suspected of trying to dispose of the gun in a nearby trashcan where it was later found by detectives.

The suspect was taken to the Sacramento County Youth Detention Facility. A SCSO spokesman told the Post that if the criminal case against the 10-year-old suspect proceeds and he is convicted, he could possibly wind up incarcerated until the age of 25.

The suspect's father was arrested and taken to the Sacramento County Main Jail. Jail records indicate Davis was charged with five felonies, including carrying a stolen, loaded firearm in a vehicle; endangering the life or health of a child; and accessory after the fact. Davis' bail was set at $500,000. He is set to appear in court on Wednesday.

KCRA reported that members of the victim's family hold the suspect's parents just as responsible as the shooter.

"Any parent in their right mind should know how to keep an armed weapon secure. My nephew's blood is on y'all hands. Y'all allowed y'all son to do this to my 10-year-old nephew," said Erika. "Y'all parents need to know how to put y'all weapons away. Teach y'all kids right. Because this wasn't right."

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'The start of a new era': Iconoclasts rewarded with an Indian statue after tearing down statue of Christian missionary



The iconoclasts who unlawfully torched and toppled the Sacramento statue of a historic Spanish missionary in 2020 were rewarded Tuesday with a substitute evidently palatable to those antipathetic to the region's Christian heritage.

Where the statue of Junípero Serra once stood now stands the likeness of Miwok elder William J. Franklin, an Indian elder known in some circles for preserving traditional dances.

Jesus Tarango, the chair of the Wilton Rancheria tribe in Sacramento County, said, "Today's unveiling signifies the start of a new era here in California at our state Capitol — one where we stop uplifting a false narrative and start honoring the original stewards of this land," reported the Associated Press.

Despite Tarango's insinuation that the truth has prevailed, the initiative to replace the Serro statue appears to have been largely premised on blood libels and falsehoods.

What's the background?

Junípero Serra was the first Catholic saint canonized on American soil. A statue was erected in his honor near the California Capitol in Sacramento in 1965, commemorating his work not only as a Christian missionary who had a hand in establishing California's 21 Spanish missions, including the nine built during his lifetime, but also as an advocate for Indian rights.

Despite Serra's track record for standing up to the Spanish military on behalf of native peoples and defending Indian property rights, leftists and other revisionists have long characterized Serra as a villain, taking issue in particular with his evangelical efforts.

Democrats fully embraced this antipathy toward Serra, accusing the missionary of overseeing "enslavement of both adults and children, mutilation, genocide, and assault on women" in a piece of legislation that Gov. Gavin Newsom ratified on Sept. 24, 2021.

Omitting any mention of a possible spiritual context for Serra's work or his proposed native bill of rights, AB 338 alleged that the missionary, responsible for bringing Christianity to multitudes of Indians, had a leading role in the "devastation" of native communities in the state.

The legislation, which Newsom claimed served to underscore the state's "values of inclusion and equity," deleted the legal requirement that the Serra statue be maintained.

Evidently tired of the smears against Serra, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco noted in a September 2021 Wall Street Journal op-ed, "None of that is true."

"While there is much to criticize from this period, no serious historian has ever made such outrageous claims about Serra or the mission system, the network of 21 communities that Franciscans established along the California coast to evangelize native people. The lawmakers behind the bill drew their ideas from a single tendentious book written by journalist Elias Castillo," wrote the prelates.

"Serra was a complex character, but he defended indigenous people's humanity, decried the abuse of indigenous women, and argued against imposing the death penalty on natives who had burned down a mission and murdered one of his friends," they continued. "How we choose to remember the past shapes the people we hope to be in the future. We can think of no better symbol for this multiethnic state committed to human dignity and equality than to place two statues at the California Capitol — one celebrating the living heritage of California’s indigenous peoples, another reflecting the faith and leadership of their defender St. Junípero Serra."

The archbishops evidently failed to convert the revisionists.

Toppling history

During the 2020 BLM riots, radicals inflicted billions of dollars of damage across the country. During the destructive campaign, hundreds of statues and historical monuments were toppled, including Serra's statue in Sacramento's Capitol Park.

KXTV-TV reported at the time that hundreds of demonstrators had swarmed the statue, spray-painted it, attempted to set it on fire, then used heavy-duty tow straps to pull it down.

Bishop Jaime Soto, the head of the Diocese of Sacramento, said in response, "The group's actions may have been meant to draw attention to the sorrowful, angry memories over California's past, but this act of vandalism does little to build the future."

"The strenuous labor of overcoming the plague of racism should not be toppled by nocturnal looting. Dialogue should not abdicate to vandalism," added Soto.

A statue with the iconoclasts' blessing

State lawmakers, tribal leaders, and activists celebrated the unveiling of the eight-foot bronze statue of Miwok leader William Franklin Tuesday in the park where Serra's likeness once stood.

KXTV indicated that Franklin strived during his lifetime to revive traditional Miwok and Nisenan songs and dances. In addition to being a member of the California Native American Heritage Commission, he also worked to establish the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990.

At the groundbreaking ceremony last year, his grandson Louie Brown said, "He's going to be happy that he's out here in the park amongst the trees because he was an outside type of guy."

"Finally, the California Indian people will have a monument here on the Capitol grounds for all those visiting to know that we are still here," said Assemblyman James Ramos, the Democratic lawmaker behind AB 338. "We're here because of the resiliency of our elders and ancestors."

Chris Gallardo, a Wilton Rancheria government relations staffer linked to the statue initiative, said, "What this statue is replacing, the pain and suffering under Serra, it's a huge blessing," reported the Sacramento Bee.

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