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Wednesday night's shooting on 280 of Richmond resident Luis "Al" Solari, appears to have been shot and killed in a bout of road rage. Solari's two young sons were in the back seat when a car pulled alongside and fired several shots into the Solari's car. According to the Gate:
At the family's home on Thursday, Solari's youngest son, 7-year-old Lorenzo, matter-of-factly recounted what happened to his dad.
"I saw three guys in a car," said the boy, his mother at his side. "They were making a mean face at Daddy and Daddy made a mean face at them.
"One of the guys in the car stuck his hand out the window and shot Daddy in the tummy. He prayed and fell down," the boy said. "He was breathing and then he stopped. I looked at his stomach and he was bleeding. And then his mouth was bleeding."
This shooting happened right on the heels of the freeway shooting last week on 80. The hope is that this isn't becoming a trend -- keep your anger to yourselves and complain about drivers to your friends when you get home. Just like everyone else.
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Good lord. Was the 7 year old Stephen King?
I saw that interview this morning on the Ch2 news. He's a very articulate little boy. My sympathies to him and the rest of his family.
jesus h christ, that's awful.
I'm not sure how I feel about a reporter shoving her camera/microphone in a small child's face and asking him to recount the details of his father's death. Seems a little slimy to me. although the kid seemed remarkably calm about the whole thing.
remarkably calm = shock
Damn...we order from the company he worked for, I'm pretty sure this was our regular delivery guy. :(
This story is sad. I feel real bad for that family.
My father is a road-rager. Once, this guy in a porsche cut him off when he was driving my mom and me back from a shopping trip. He chased the guy for a couple blocks before the guy drove into a parking lot. By the time my dad caught up the other driver had parked his car and was sitting in the passenger's seat waiting with the door open and his hand in his glove box. No doubt he had a firearm.
My father, a street fighter, approached with his hands out showing he wasn't carrying a weapon. The other driver got out from his car without the gun. They both exchanged heated words. Before we all knew it they were in a full blown fight. Blood was everywhere. The cops came. It was a major scene. Neither my father or the other driver wanted to press charges.
A year later the same porsche driver was arrested after an incident of road rage. Only that time he had taken the gun out of his glove box and killed the driver and passenger who had followed him.