Neighbor says she confronted Modesto Pine Tree Lane shooting suspects - Modesto Bee
A resident a couple of doors down from the west Modesto home where a man was shot to death by two intruders Sunday night said she confronted one of the men moments afterward, not realizing that the crime had just occurred. The killing occurred shortly after 9:40 p. m. , when two suspects brazenly forced a women and three children into a home on the 800 block of Pine Tree Lane house at gunpoint and began firing, police said. The woman had just arrived home with her three sons – ages 1, 6 and 11 – when two Latino men in their 20s forced their way into the house, according to Modesto Police Department spokeswoman Heather Graves. Once inside, the suspects fired several shots, striking an adult male victim who already was inside the home, police said. The neighbor, who asked that her name be withheld, said that not long before the shooting, her son and nephew alerted her to two men walking back and forth along the street and behaving suspiciously. When she went outside to confront them, the shooting already had occurred, she said, though she didn’t hear any shots. The man she encountered leaving the area was maybe 5-foot-10 and 160 to 170 pounds, the neighbor said, and “not fat, but solid. ” He wore a black shirt, blue jeans, a white baseball cap and white Nike Air Force 1 shoes, which she said she recognized because her son just got a pair. “He said, ‘No, what the hell, why’d you think I was by your son’s car. Source: www.modbee.com
