SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Authorities Monday publicly identified five men who were wounded one fatally during a shooting rampage last week in the Gaslamp District by an assailant armed with an untraceable “ghost gun.”
Parking valet Justice Boldin, 28, was standing on a sidewalk in front of Pendry San Diego Hotel in the 500 block of J Street about 10:30 p.m. Thursday when a man walked up to him, pulled a 9mm pistol and shot him without provocation, according to police.
“The (shooter) began to walk away, but quickly turned and fired again at the victim,” Lt. Andra Brown said.
28-year-old Justice Boldin
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Authorities Monday publicly identified five men who were wounded one fatally during a shooting rampage last week in the Gaslamp District by an assailant armed with an untraceable “ghost gun.”
Parking valet Justice Boldin, 28, was standing on a sidewalk in front of Pendry San Diego Hotel in the 500 block of J Street about 10:30 p.m. Thursday when a man walked up to him, pulled a 9mm pistol and shot him without provocation, according to police.
“The (shooter) began to walk away, but quickly turned and fired again at the victim,” Lt. Andra Brown said.
Boldin, an Ace Parking employee, died at the scene.
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Gaslamp Quarter shooting survivor s son shares details of deadly confrontation
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) A Southern California musician who was in town to play his first show in over a year due to the pandemic says he is the son of one of the five victims of Thursday night s deadly shooting in San Diego s Gaslamp Quarter.
David, who didn t want to give his last name, talked with this station Friday morning when he returned to the Gaslamp to find his dad s truck.
He said his 68-year-old father had come down to watch him play last night but never made it to the show. He says his father was shot in the stomach and is now in stable condition.
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Police said Friday that downtown resident Travis Sarreshteh, 32, shot and killed a man on J Street, in front of the Pendry San Diego Hotel, where the victim was working as a valet, just after 10:30 p.m. on April 22
Sarreshteh then allegedly walked up one block, to Fifth and Island avenues in downtown San Diego and shot at a group of four other men; these victims were wounded, but survived
Sarreshtehwas arrested by San Diego police and no one else was hurt; an SDPD officer deployed his taser on the suspect
On a Thursday night in downtown San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter, many people heard the gunfire in the streets as a suspect shot and killed a man who was working as a valet at the Pendry hotel, walked up a block, and opened fire on four others. Here’s what witnesses remember hearing and feeling.