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Tragic UTC mass shooting leaves witnesses questioning motive
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SDPD initially disregards racism as cause BY BLAKE BUNCH
Vita Coco, an international health drink company, came to UC San Diego on April 29 as part of a national tour to give students the chance to be their next plant manager. Not the typical job application, students were asked why they would make the perfect plant manager while riding down a three-story-high, 300-foot-long waterslide. Four winners will get to spend three days in New York at headquarters and then travel to Sri Lanka for one week, embracing the duties of a true company plant manager. Above, students during ‘the interview.’ PHOTO CONTRIBUTED
Following the April 30 shooting at the La Jolla Crossroads apartment complex, which left Monique Clark, a 35-year-old mother of three, dead, several victims and witnesses are hesitant to dismiss the notion, provided by San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman, that race did not play a factor in the shooting. The shooter, 49-year-old Peter Raymond Selis, was white. Seven others were injured in the shooting. According to reports, four women and three men were shot. The victims were identified only as four black women, two black men, and a Hispanic man. Their names were not immediately released. "We believe that there is zero information to indicate that race played a factor in this terrible and horrific crime,” Zimmerman said at a May 1 press conference. “He simply targeted his victims because they just happened to be there.
What started as a celebration of a friend's birthday party turned into a tragedy of epic proportion for all those in attendance." Thomas Blea, 34, was recently released from Scripps Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for a gunshot wound to the leg. Blea thanked first responders for their quick actions. Four victims were brought to Scripps Memorial, while two were brought to Mercy. SDPD has placed their focus for the gunman’s motive as him being distraught over a breakup with his ex-girlfriend. Selis called his ex after shooting two people, telling her what he had done. "Selis and his girlfriend recently broke up, and family and friends of the suspect said that he was distraught and depressed about the breakup,” said Zimmerman. “Selis is a La Jolla Crossroads resident. He called his ex-girlfriend and told her
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Hillel Student Center unanimously approved despite years’ long opposition, proposals BY BLAKE BUNCH On Thursday, April 29, the City of San Diego Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of the Beverly and Joseph Glickman Hillel Center, to be located at the intersection of La Jolla Village
Drive and Torrey Pines Road. “This is a very important day for us,” said Robert Lapidus, longtime chair of the Hillel Facilities Committee. “We have been working for nearly two decades on this project, and the Planning Commission’s vote brings us one
step closer to making the Glickman Hillel Cen- Shores Association, and an opposition group, ter a reality.” Taxpayers for Responsible Land Use (TRLU), Some residents in the La Jolla Shores neigh- have been against this proposal since its incepborhood remain in staunch opposition to a proposed University of California San Diego SEE HILLEL >> PG. 8 Hillel student center, however. The La Jolla
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