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Hadn't seen this posted yet. Just outside Monterey, CA. Not a lot of news has followed since this initial report.

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I’m sure the gunmen were black and unarmed.

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BLM terrorists?

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Fatal shooting in Sand City parking lot

By James Herrera, Monterey Herald

Sand City >> Police officers fatally shot two people in a gunfight in the parking lot of a Target store in Sand City’s Edgewater Shopping Center on Monday.

Around 3:30 p.m., two Sand City police officers attempted to serve warrants on two people when the suspects opened fire on the officers, police said. Both officers were wounded and both suspects were killed, Sand City Police Chief Brian Ferrante and District Attorney Dean Flippo announced in a joint media briefing Monday afternoon at the scene.

“After the officers confronted them, the suspects opened fire,” said Ferrante. “Both officers injured were transported to the hospital via ambulance and are in stable condition.”

Bouchra Gygax, a student at Monterey Peninsula College, was trying to find parking at the shopping center off Highway 1 when she saw two policemen holding up a third man and the foot of another person sticking out of a car in front of them.

“While I was waiting people started pulling out their phones and somebody said, ‘The cop got shot and he shot back,’” Gygax said.

The scene quickly became chaotic, she said, as she saw patrol cars and ambulances coming from everywhere.

“It was crazy,” she said.

Ferrante requested the DA’s Bureau of Investigation conduct the investigation.

“We now have 15 investigators that are involved in gathering evidence both here” and at Natividad Medical Center, said Flippo.

Officers from Seaside, Marina, Monterey, the California Highway Patrol and the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office aided Sand City police at the scene. No further information was released on the two suspects pending notification of next of kin.

Ferrante said the officers knew the suspects and knew they had outstanding warrants.

“Fortunately no innocent bystanders were involved,” Ferrante said.

Though Target was closed in the wake of the shooting, the other 20 or so businesses in the shopping center stayed open.

Herald staff writer Claudia Meléndez Salinas contributed to this report. James Herrera can be reached at 726-4344.

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Target makes me irritable too.

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Uhhhh, Jose and Josb, I betcha

[ImNotLying]

Sounds like the officers were using proper target acquisition techniques and the two dead thugs were firing gangsta style

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Fatalities in Sand City shooting identified

By Herald Staff, newsroom@montereyherald.com, @MontereyHerald on Twitter

Sand City >> The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office has identified William Spaits, 27, and Tina Money, 23, as the fatalities in Monday’s police shoot-out in the parking lot in front of a Target store in the Edgewater Shopping Center.

Spaits was wanted on a no-bail parole violation and $300,000 in other outstanding warrants, Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Spaits failed to appear while out on bail, and a warrant was issued for his arrest on Sept. 14. Sand City police were attempting to serve that warrant when the gun battle broke out. The two policemen were wounded and taken to a local hospital. One was released on Monday evening, and the second officer was expected to be released Tuesday, according to Sand City police.

Spaits was charged with burglary in February 2013, and with domestic abuse and robbery in December 2014. He also had previous convictions for check forgery and second degree burglary.

Tina Money was charged in June with child abuse and with possession of controlled substances. The medications she was found to have without prescriptions were Diazepam, used to treat anxiety disorders; hydrochloride bupropion, an antidepressant; tramadol, a pain reliever; and carisoprodol, a muscle relaxant.

Money was scheduled to appear in court, but after failing to show up for three hearings, a warrant was issued for her arrest on Aug. 21. Flippo said she had warrants totaling $160,000. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.

There was a third person who was taken into custody, Flippo said, but his name is not being released pending further investigation.

Money and Spaits