Witness: Apt Pool Shooter Relaxed ‘With Gun in His Lap'
"The shooter just sitting down, relaxed, sitting down with a gun on his lap," one witness told NBC 7. "It’s really stunning. It’s hard to fathom."
By R. Stickney ••
Rikky Galiendes was enjoying what he thought was a normal Sunday afternoon at the La Jolla Crossroads apartment complex when he heard gunshots outside his apartment.
Galiendes was having what he described as a normal day in the La Jolla Crossroads apartment complex. He walked by the pool and saw a group of people swimming, eating BBQ and enjoying what was a normal Sunday afternoon.
Then, just about an hour later, he heard 8-10 gunshots from his apartment.
“It was really a gruesome scene. There was blood everywhere, blood on the corners. There were bloody footprints on the ground,” he recalled.
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From his vantage point, he could see someone injured and instinctively called out to the man asking if he was ok. That’s when his roommate grabbed him and pointed out the gunman sitting with a gun on his lap.
That’s the image Galiendes can’t shake.
“The shooter just sitting down, relaxed, sitting down with a gun on his lap,” he said. “It’s really stunning. It’s hard to fathom.”
“How is this guy just sitting down there relaxed when all of this chaos is going on,” he said.
Galiendes said he's had friends and loved ones reach out to him to check on him but he has asked them to think about those who are in the hospital, injured.
“I’m just really like fed up. It’s just really hard to see that happening to people who were not expecting it to happen to them,” he said.
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Witnesses comfort each other following a deadly shooting at a San Diego-area apartment complex.
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One woman was killed and 7 others injured when a man opened fire in a pool area at the La Jolla Crossroads apartment complex in University City.
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Eight people were injured in the shooting in the pool area at La Jolla Crossroads Sunday afternoon, some were in critical condition, San Diego police said. Three officers shot and killed the shooter. One woman later died in the hospital, police confirmed.
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Thomas Blea, 34, was visibly emotional as he described the moments after he was shot while celebrating a friend's birthday Sunday in University City.
A Snapchat video captured the gunman, later identified as Pete Selis, sitting in a loungechair near the pool.
Another image from the Snapchat video that captured the sounds of the shooting and images of the victims near the pool.
Rikky Galiendes shot the Snapchat video of the gunfire and bloody scene at the pool in the La Jolla Crossroads apartment complex. He and his friends called police and took cover.
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Images taken inside La Jolla Crossroads on Sunday, April 30, 2017.
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Eight people were injured in the shooting in the pool area at La Jolla Crossroads Sunday afternoon, some were in critical condition, San Diego police said. Three officers shot and killed the shooter. One woman later died in the hospital, police confirmed.
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Eight people were injured in the shooting in the pool area at La Jolla Crossroads Sunday afternoon, some were in critical condition, San Diego police said. Three officers shot and killed the shooter. One woman later died in the hospital, police confirmed.
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Eight people were injured in the shooting in the pool area at La Jolla Crossroads Sunday afternoon, some were in critical condition, San Diego police said. Three officers shot and killed the shooter. One woman later died in the hospital, police confirmed.
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One woman was killed and 7 others injured when a man opened fire in a pool area at the La Jolla Crossroads apartment complex in University City.
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An image from Snapchat captured gunman Peter Selis sitting in a lounge chair at the La Jolla Crossroads pool.
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An image of the pool the night after the shooting after it had been reopened to residents.
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Images taken inside La Jolla Crossroads on Sunday, April 30, 2017.
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Images taken inside La Jolla Crossroads on Sunday, April 30, 2017.
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Images taken inside La Jolla Crossroads on Sunday, April 30, 2017.
Seven others were injured in the shooting at the La Jolla Crossroads complex. NBC 7's Artie Ojeda reports.
