Mom Shot at Strip Mall Used Body to Protect Her Toddler
- Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:21am by
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A mother loading her 2-year-old son into an SUV used her body to protect the toddler before she was shot and killed in an ensuing midday gunbattle at a Sacramento strip mall, sheriff’s officials said Wednesday.
Monique Nelson, 30, had just strapped her son into his car seat when she was struck in the chest, and detectives believe she positioned herself to protect her son, Sacramento County Sheriff’s Sgt. Tim Curran said.
“She was found with her body over the young child,” he said. “So we believe she did hear the gunfire.”
A second victim, 20-year-old Marvion Barksdale, also died from injuries suffered in the shootout after being taken to a hospital where he underwent surgery for a chest wound, Curran said. Five other men were injured in the gunfight. All are expected to survive.
Nelson died at the scene, where Metro Fire and sheriff department personnel were seen attempting to entertain her son following the shooting. The child was unharmed and has been reunited with family members, according to authorities.
Family members did not immediately return a phone message left Wednesday at their bookstore, where Nelson worked as a supervisor, according to the Sacramento Bee.
Nelson’s brother, Richard Nelson, told the newspaper his sister was “bubbly, outgoing, always had a smile on her face.”
He said her biggest passion was her son.
“All about her son. She loved her son dearly,” he said. “She was a good mother.”
Detectives believe at least one gunman entered the Fly Cuts & Styles barber shop just before 1 p.m. and began shooting. At least one person inside the shop returned fire.
Curran said the ensuing gunbattle transitioned into the parking lot. Detectives have recovered bullets from four firearms, including one rifle, he told reporters Wednesday. One handgun was recovered but police aren’t sure if it was used in the shooting.
A number of homicides have occurred in south Sacramento, the site of Tuesday’s shooting, but there is no known history of violence at the barber shop, Curran said. Authorities were still investigating the crime Wednesday, and said they had no motive for it.
Curran said Nelson had visited a one-hour photo shop in the shopping center before briefly stopping into the barber shop to say hello to people she knew there. Curran described the barbershop as a “social gathering place” for many people and said Nelson would bring her son there to get his hair cut.
“We believe there are many people out there who were involved in the shooting and they will be held accountable. We need people withholding information to know that they can come forward,” Curran said. “Bottom line: we have a completely innocent victim who was shot.”
One man who was arrested early Wednesday as part of the investigation into the shooting was found not directly involved in the shooting. Curran said the man had other outstanding issues.
A 28-year old man who was wounded in the shoulder and leg, and a 46-year-old man who was shot in the stomach remained hospitalized Wednesday, Curran said.
A 37-year-old man who was wounded in the leg and a 20-year-old man who was shot in the chest were treated and released. They were only associated with the shootout later Tuesday, Curran said, after leaving the strip mall and being dropped off at separate hospitals.
A 39-year-old man also suffered a grazing wound to the ankle and was treated by paramedics at the scene.
Authorities said they have not identified which of the injured victims might be suspects.
Although it’s likely gang members were involved, authorities do not believe the shooting was directly related to gang activity, Curran said.
“There were undoubtedly people involved that were gang members. But as far as this being a classic gang shooting … that’s not what this was at all,” he said.
Curran said two dozen people were playing games in a back room of the shop when the shooting occurred. He said detectives have spoken to about 20 people and they are not cooperating as much as they should for fear of retaliation.
“(Detectives) are getting variations of the same story,” he said.
Tuesday’s shooting happened about a block from where a 22-year-old man was shot execution-style in January as he ate lunch at a restaurant. Police believe that case was gang-related but it remains unsolved.
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Comments (60)
Gonzo
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:40amTragic. This kind of situation is where Obama could actually do some good. If he would raise these issues with the black community they would listen to him. However, he and Jackson, Sharpton etc.
Report Post »spend their time demonizing Fox, Republicans and the rich while the black community continues to spiral in to chaos.
TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:17amHow do you know they are black?
Report Post »highcarry
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:33amyeah, how do you know they weren’t mexicans?
Report Post »dizzyinthedark
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:30amThere’s nothing like a parents love–to give. She gave her life so her child could live.
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:48pmand how do we know she was not just shot and her dead body fell on the kid. assume all you want but only she knows and she took that with her
Report Post »Dawgnabox
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:28am“Curran said two dozen people were playing games in a back room of the shop when the shooting occurred”
24 dewds in the back of the shop playing games? What we have here is an illegal gambling operation. The people had 6 poker games going on or 8-liners lined up or even dominoes. This may have been a robbery gone bad or not enough protection money being paid. There is a lot more going on here then we are being told. I doubt the real information will ever be revealed. This goes on a lot more then people realize. It’s a shame innocent people get caught up in these crime on crime situations. Damn shame….
Report Post »badswing
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:21amif guns were made illegal this wouldn’t have happened…….hahahahahahah BTW, 20 people playing games in the back room at 1 in the afternoon? wonder how they make ends meet? wonder if they get ‘assistance’?
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:15amI’m sure that this will also be brought into gun control. I wonder why all the leaders always want more gun control, but never ask for a law against gang membership. After all, by what they believe about gun control, then a law against gang membership would stop most of the crime.
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:11amThe people in the community know who the gangsters are. Time to take some action, since the cops wont. Some sniper rifles with scopes could end the gang problem in a few days. C’mon people. Stand up for yourselves. The stupid cops wont help you, they are to busy stroking their own ego’s with their badges.
You gotta stand up for yourselves and take back your community!!!
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:43amOK, gangsters shooting and people killed is not a classic gang shooting, because it was at a barber shop? What kind of BS political horse squeeze is that? Our community is safe BS. Our community has no illegals BS. We all love barry. That boy is the ghetto king, yo
Report Post »justice
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 5:55amI pray for this mother who so loved her child to give her own life to protect him. God, be with the child who’s mother gave her life so he may have life. Help this family through this unspeakable loss that should have never, never happened.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 4:13amTragic.
Report Post »Big_D
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 3:04amreloadnoretreat
nice call. very sad.
Report Post »jColes
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 3:02am…no mention of a father in this story.
The whole thing sounds like the product of a broken, dysfunctional community.
There are now too many places in our formerly placid nation like this…and if you track the governing powers in those communities you find they are almost uniformly Liberal/Progressive governing powers. Crime and criminality can be found almost everywhere in the US of A, but crime and fractional family units are far more common where Libs rule.
Tragedy and pain follow Liberal rule wherever it is found.
Report Post »phoenixrising
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 2:43amLove has none greater than those who lay down their life for another.
Report Post »ReloadNotRetreat
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 2:39amMay God bless this mother and her ultimate sacrifice. May God bless and protect her son. Someday he will understand her sacrifice, but may God shield him from the horrible memory of his dead mother laying on top of him.
Report Post »I often find the comments on here enlightening, amusing, head scratchingly dumbfounding, and occasionally, like today, insensitive and inappropriate.
I,too, am a gun owner and would love to discuss gun right issues with anyone, but this mothers sacrifice was the real story here for me.
TenStrings
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:29amReloadNotRetreat
Report Post »I agree. Whatever the circumstances that led this woman to be in this particular place at this particular time is irrelevant. The fact that she protected her son from the violence around them with her very life is far more worthy of prayer than criticism.
I pray her son grows up far removed from the lifestyle that killed his mother.
leftylemn
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 2:29amoops…snitch
Report Post »leftylemn
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 2:28amNo stitch idiots get the community they deserve.
Report Post »AntiUSSA
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:56amtoo bad only the bad guys are allowed to have guns anymore………….
Report Post »Cadcamtrainer
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 2:36amYou can own guns if you live in Florida. So sad that people in California allowed themselves to be duped by their politicians. California voted for Gov Moonbean, Nancy Pelossi, Barbara B an for Barak Hussein Obama.
Report Post »God Help us all!
Cliff
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 3:30amnot only bad guys have guns… I have a gun every third day of the week… guess which day!!!
http://www.mentordvd.com
Report Post »tgarrett369
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:29pmwe still have guns in nebraska. i named mine libkiller and ronald
Report Post »Vox Populi
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:54amHmm – lets compare notes.
Sacremento police would love to get local residents who saw a gangland shootout to say something about the dead and wounded citizens.
If you say something about GANG shootings – members of one of the (alleged) gangs involved (or perhaps members of BOTH alleged gangs) will come to your home and murder everyone they find.
Police need information from 20 citizens from the backroom of the barbershop where the shootout began (this time), who saw the entire shootout. The police assume that ALL 20 people know: A) the names of the customer/gang members involved, but must also live on the streets after the police go home to mull over MORE evidence about gang shootings going back ALL THE WAY TO LAST JANUARY, when a 22 year old man was shot in the back-o-the-head-execution style (that they haven’t yet found a culprit to)….
***MEMO TO THE COPS*** You will never get your answers as the good people of Sacremento have been turned into sheeple. The criminals know that their gunbattle was over before you showed up – probably because they know how long it takes you to show up.
Here’s a couple of questions I have from information NOT in the story:
!) What is the nationality of the suspected gangs involved in crimes that OBVIOUSLY had ZERO chance of being GANG RELATED ACTIVITY?
2) How much information should cops expect to get about activities of KNOWN gang members – many of which are extension of the Narco-Anarchists running our neighbor to the south – when they lie?
3) How can cops HOPE to get information from victims of the activities (i.e. SHOOTINGS) of KNOWN GANG MEMBERS – do NOT serve as evidence of “gang related activities”?
4) Do you think that citizens feel empowered when they ONLY have to wait 40 minutes for the police to come and defend them from GANG ACTIVITIES (i.e.-SHOOTINGS) – even though most crimes are over in 20 minutes – or do you think they feel like sheeple?
5) Do you think strong, independent and free people will remain sheeple?
The RIGHT of self-defense is the first law of nature.
Vox
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:29amCan we assume one of the patrons was not pleased with his hairstyle?
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:39amor cheated someone out of big bux in the “legal” card game
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:35amCan we assume that these guys were registered gun owners?
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:29aminstincts are powerful, amen to thepatriotdave
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:24amRemember the story a few weeks ago about the Vermont barber who didn‘t want to cut the black man’s hair. Well, draw your own conclusions.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 4:17amI have drawn my own conclusions.
I conclude that you are a racebaiting idiot.
Report Post »flagringo
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:07amhey MossBrain, the barber was not familiar with HOW to cut a black man’s hair…that’s why. It had nothing to do with race, he wasn’t trained to cut it…well. I quote the AP story below
BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. (AP) — Barber Mike Aldrich says he was trying to avoid embarrassment — and a lousy haircut — when he balked at trimming the hair of Dr. Darryl Fisher. He says he’s just no good at cutting black people’s hair.
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:11amso naive aren’t we? that’s not why….but credit is due for a good excuse.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:33amNappy Hair is now an offical epidemic………….
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 5:29pm…and you are an official racist.
Go play in traffic.
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:23amand what would 2 dozen people be doing in the back of any lagitamate business?
Report Post »FishersCPA
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:17amDuh…I am told to say “Although it’s likely gang members were involved, authorities do not believe the shooting was directly related to gang activity” but I really don’t have the guts to call it out like it is… What a bunch of crap! Yea, this sounds like a normal day at a barber shop… Can we get any more politically correct STUPID.
Report Post »flagringo
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:03amtypical bureaucratic CYA nonsense…..bullets were flying from members of gang(s)….looks, smells and sounds like ‘gang activity’ to me. AND if you check the Sacbee.com story, it’s not too far from MLK Blvd and many more activities with guns (on the map).
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:07amSay a prayer for Monique Nelson and her now Motherless son.
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:06amhuh sounds like a normal barber shop to me……..?
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:58amgood grief. what’s this world coming to!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 2:49amObamacare
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 4:16amDamn.
WTF.
Report Post »Outside Looking In
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 4:26amAre you really asking what’s the world coming to when we wring our hands and wipe away tears because a young mother brings her toddler to a location obviously infested with gang-bangers?
What’s got everyone so surprised that people end up dead in a situ like this?
Why isn’t everyone pointing at the Mom and screaming “What were you thinking bringing your dumb self and your baby to a place like this?”
GeauxAlready
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:29amThere were undoubtedly people involved that were gang members. But as far as this being a classic gang shooting … that’s not what this was at all,” he said.
Well what the hell was it numbnuts?
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:47amIt’s not coming to anything, it’s going to hell in a hand basket. It will keep going there until it arrives, or we start looking towards God to answer our problems. Ridicule me if you must. But we didn’t have a lot of these problems until God was shut out.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:51amWe need a law, outlawing “Nappy Hair”. It’s killing people now.
Brave Mama to put her self in the line of fire to save her child.
“Life is just a gleam, between two eternities. So Shine while you’re here.” She did R.I.P.
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:50amThis mother gave her ultimate to save her child; most of us would do the same if we were in her own place at the time. To Americans, the most precious gift in the world is our children, they are the future of our land.
God bless her and comfort her family, and guide her child in the years to come.
Report Post »Mad Az Hell
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:13pmSome brutha pissed at the hack job his barber did, looks for some payback. Maybe we need a 3 day waiting period on all nappy haircuts….just thinking out loud.
tgarrett369
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:21pmwelfare creates crime. get people off welfare and on the clock and crime fades away
Report Post »racialcoward
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 4:07pmWERE THE DC SNIPERS MELBO AND MOHAMMAD RELEASED FROM PRISON?
This women’s assassin is a member of Obama’s Domestic Military Force he spoke about during his campaign. Obama has kept every promise he has made. These shootings are happening around the nation at an increasing rate and are intended to keep people from shopping. Remember that Melbo and Mohammad the DC snipers increased their sniping during the Christmas Season.
Sinista Mace
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 5:28pmOnce again, we’ve been infiltrated by racist trolls.
Please, go to http://www.kkk.com with those racist comments.
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