CV Crime Scene
On his morning walk, Your Boulevardier noticed an Alameda County Sheriff's cruiser and a crime scene truck in the strip mall kittycorner to Trader Joe's, at the corner of Grove Way and Redwood Road. The part of the shopping center with the nail salon and pizza parlor was cordoned off with crime scene tape, and a few anxious-looking folks hovered about. No other details are available at this time.
Labels: crime, CV businesses, Redwood Road, sheriff
posted by Your Boulevardier @ 10:00 AM
6 Comments
6 Comments:
Miss a blog day or so and there you have it, several blog posts I missed. The sign is funny. What are they doing to the hospital? And my favorite old car is a '58 Ford Retractable hardtop convertable. Yup, had one about 20 years ago and it was a collector car then. It hurts me to see that Chevy rusting.
All hospitals have to be seismicly sound by I think 2010 or maybe it's 2012. I don't remember, so they're going to build a new hospital across the street from the current one.
I saw a posting on a different blog, indicating the tape at Grove way strip mall, was due to the donut shop being robbed and one of the owners was shot.
I don't know how badly the employee was hurt. The blog said the shootee was still alive.
The blog also said it was a family owned business
bummer
Thanks for the follow-up, Jerald. Could you provide a link to the other blog post? Your Boulevardier has been unable to find any more information on this event.
Today's Forum has a report on the robbery at the donut shop. It wasn't a shooting but a pistol-whipping. The attack was severe enough to require surgery for the victim. This occurred at about 4:30 AM at Lee's donuts which is between Trader Joe's and I-580. It's not the incident noted by the Boulevardier. That was over by the 7-11 if I understood his description correctly.
Friends,
You have probably read that the owner of Lee's Donuts on the corner of
Grove Way and Redwood Road was brutally pistol whipped about a couple of
weeks ago during an early morning robbery. I'd like to tell you a
little more about him.
Sam Nouv came to the U.S. from Cambodia and, in 1987, started working at
Lee's Donuts. Before long, he was leasing the business from its owner
and, in 1990, bought the business. He and his wife, Lori, go to work
every day at 3:30 a.m., open up at 4:00 a.m. and don't close until 6:00
p.m. -- every day, seven days a week. They do close on a very few
holidays, but in 19 years have never had a vacation and the most time
they have ever had off at any one time is two days.
Our grandparents or great-grandparents worked like this when they first
came to America, but no native-born American that I know would do so.
In addition to working these brutal hours, they are raising three sons,
a 21-year-old currently at Chabot College, a 15-year-old at Castro
Valley High School and a 10-year-old at Independent Elementary.
And Sam and Lori are two of the friendliest people you could ever hope
to meet.
Sam has been back to work -- briefly -- for the last couple of days, but
the burden of keeping the shop open for the last two weeks has fallen on
Lori, the kids and a few friends.
I asked Lori if they had adequate medical insurance and she said they
did, but their deductible and co-pay were killing them, when nearly all
of their income goes for basic living expenses. Lori said their share
of the medical expenses was $15,000. Sam later told me it might not be
that high, but is at least $7,000 (Kaiser told them they don't have a
final figure yet.)
Some community members are getting together at my office on Tuesday to
plan a series of fundraisers for the family. Ken Martin is planning a
charity bocce ball tournament and other ideas that have been kicked
around include a car wash. More ideas may come from the Tuesday
meeting. If you'd like to participate, the meeting is at 2:00 p.m.
In the meantime, if any of you can see your way to making a donation,
however small, the family can sure use it. $100 would be great, but $5
or $10 will be equally appreciated. (I merely slipped them some cash.)
Please look in your wallets for old, unused bills or consider writing a
check to "Sam Nouv." You can deliver your donations to my office (20880
Redwood Rd., Castro Valley) or directly to the Nouv family at their store.
You could also pass this story on to your neighbors or other friends in
Castro Valley. They just might see fit to give you a donation to pass
on, or to visit Lee's and slip a few dollars into Lori's hand. And
maybe they'll pass the story along even further.
Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to give.
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