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East Palo Alto police are investigating the attempted murder of an officer in a residential area of the city Friday night.
Police said an officer was patrolling near the intersection of Kavanaugh Drive and Gloria Way at about 10:30 p.m. when he heard shots being fired.
The officer continued onto the 2500 block of Gloria Way, where he spotted a male suspect firing a gun into the air in front of a home at 2590 Gloria Way, police said.
When the officer identified himself as a police officer and stopped to confront the suspect, the suspect pointed the gun toward the officer and shot at him about five times before running to the home at 2590 Gloria Way, police said.
The officer avoided being struck by gunfire but requested assistance from police personnel. While waiting for backup, the officer located 48-year-old Corona Lynn Crowell of East Palo Alto suffering from at least one gunshot wound in the driveway of 2590 Gloria Way, police said.
Crowell was transported to a local hospital, where she is believed to be in stable condition.
Law enforcement personnel from various agencies arrived and established a perimeter around 2590 Gloria Way.
A preliminary investigation of the shooting revealed that a 3-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy were possibly inside the home but a SWAT unit was unable to make contact with anyone inside. The team entered the house after several failed attempts and found the toddlers. Police said they were unharmed and turned over to detectives.
The suspect is still at large.
Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact Detective Tracy Turner at 650-853-3177, the Police Department at 650-321-1112 or the tip line at 650-853-8477.
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This incident happened on Friday night and it is just now being added to the website? Why is it that East Palo Alto get almost no coverage in this paper? Someone can be shot in EPA and it will be buried at the bottom or off of the website within a day.
“This incident happened on Friday night and it is just now being added to the website? Why is it that East Palo Alto get almost no coverage in this paper? Someone can be shot in EPA and it will be buried at the bottom or off of the website within a day.”
Maybe because this is a Palo Alto website, not EPA? Same reason San Jose shootings go unreported?
DIDNT I SAY THIS WOULD HAPPEN THE TALIBAN RAIDS DIDNT DO SHIT TO STOP WHATS HAPPENING IN EAST PALO ALTO. IT JUST WASTED OUR TAX DOLLARS !!! DUMB ASS COPS!!! U WANT IT TO STOP DONT GO TO EAST PALO ALTO DONT EVEN PATROL IT LEAVE IT ALONE! MAKE IT UNINCORPORATED AGAIN HAVE HIGHWAY PATROL AND SHERIFFS DEPT DO THE WORK OR BETTER YET HAVE PALO ALTO COPS FIND OUT IF THEY HAVE BALLS!!
Old Palo Alto,
At one point the header used to say that this website covered Palo Alto and East Palo Alto similar to how The Almanac says it covers Menlo Park and Portola Valley. Does it not benifit the residence of both communities to be aware of what is going on? By the way, the San Jose Mercury News tends to have more coverage of EPA than Palo Alto online too.
In general, crime issues are poorly covered in the Palo Alto Weekly. The Mercury-News and some of the other free newspapers do a much better job.
Disappointed – I have to disagree. It seems like every time I go to Palo Alto Online I read about some crime associated with EPA. I keep thinking that there is way too much EPA coverage, especially when I go to Palo Alto Online to read more about the happenings in PA. We only seem to hear about EPA when it is crime related and not much else. One time there was an article about a new farmers market in EPA and it was such a relief to hear about something positive going on in EPA for a change.
I agree with Jessie, I only want to hear news that relates to progress or interesting developments in and around Palo Alto. Shootings, robberies, and gang violence, which has no direct bearing on Palo Alto holds no interest for me and I’m not interested in reading it.
I want to see all the local news for Palo Alto and the surrounding communities, good or bad. I can always choose not to read something that doesn’t interest me.
Come on- sign up to become a cop. Remember all the comments about too much pay and benifits, along with being able to retire after age 55.
Last Christmas there was a high-speed chace involving 14 poice cars that went right past my house, followed by a yard-to-yard search for the suspect complete with a helicopter. The Palo Alto Weekly said nothing of it for many days, even though it happened in Palo Alto. They didn’t even bother turing on the emergency notification system to tell us to stay inside and lock the door, even though there was an armed and desperate man on the loose. Don’t tell me about poor coverage of EPA, we get plenty of poor coverage right here.
The Palo Alto Weekly is struggling for survival right now, and I have heard that staff has been cut. They are doing the best they can with the few resources they have. It is kind of up to us to be assisting with coverage where we can.
So funny to see some of the elitist attitudes out in force. I do recall reading or being told about an editorial decision to do less EPA-related news all around in the Weekly. That may have shifted w/online updates. I do know I’ve heard of a fair amount of crime in PA that doesn’t get covered in the Weekly.
As for those who want EPA news that’s not just the violence garbage: epa.net and http://www.epatoday.org/
It’s not PA’s job to report in detail about EPA, imo. Unfortunately, there’s such a market for the negative, violent news, it makes more headlines and does a lot to reinforce peoples’ views of EPA – especially the elitists across the creek in PA and MP.
Am I your “elitist”? I have news for you. I used to live in EPA because that is all I could afford, and I was there for several years when it was worse off than it is now. I still have good and dear friends over there and I am as concerned for EPA as I am for PA, probably moreso because I think EPA need more help.
The Palo Alto Weekly is a Palo Alto news organization. EPA is a different city, different county, and is probably only covered by the weekly due to proximity and concern.
When are YOU going to get YOUR city and YOUR county to help solve EPA’s problems, YOUR problems? I would LOVE to help, but there is a limited amount I can do, or PA can do, or Santa Clara County can do, because of the unfortunate way the lines are drawn. Don’t blame us, EPA helped draw them.
At least we are in the same state, but that’s about as far as it goes.
When you, and your city, and your county decide to fix your problems, I am sure we will support you every way we can. But it is certainly unfair to sit there and claim we are elitist because we can’t solve your problems with minimal help from you.
PA and EPA can and should be mutually supportive, with a symbiotic relationship. I owuld LOVE to work with you, but you have to stop throwing stones at me.
I find it interesting that some Palo Alto residents would like EPA news omitted when the cities border each other. Those residents would be the first ones to complain if they crossed into EPA to patronize one of the retail stores (Best Buy, Office Depot, Home Depot, etc) and something happened to them. They would begin complaining about how the crime in the city had not been reported, so they were unaware of what’s going on in the city.
Also, EPA is developing a lot and with the current housing market and economy a lot of whites are moving in the city, some which may be your relatives. So before complaining about EPA news being displayed on a PA website…think about the information you’re omitting yourself from. And like someone said above, you can always choose not to read the article, but don’t deny the information to those who are interested.
Sheesh, you always take everything so personally. Was my comment directed at you, like this comment? No. Frankly, I do a lot for my community, and for the county. I do a lot of volunteer work, always have, always will. I’ve done volunteer work for YOUR city, too. You always ask online what you can do for EPA & I’ve responded. So I’m asking you now:
What are you doing for EPA? Do you volunteer for organizations?
Personally, it doesn’t matter what you do/don’t do for EPA, but you’re always posting about it, so I’m asking.
Living here when it was worse – why did you mention that? Many of us have lived here “when it was worse” & since the violence moves around, it’s always worse for someone! Or we have lousy landlords like Page Mill jacking up rents and participating in predatory equity schemes.
While you don’t come across as an elitist, you do have a rah-rah, cheerleader attitude about EPA.
I think all PA residents should get themselves over to see that hate film.
At least most of the haters here don’t base their hate on cultural, ethnic, racial or religious differences. We don’t get swastikas spray painted around town, we don’t have hate crimes (as they are currently written into law) committed often. Our problems are the results of poverty, ignorance, lack of opportunity and entrenched institutionalized racism, on the grand, community-based scale. On the family scale, a lot of the problems are people not raising their kids right, being weak, absent or overworked parents, broken families, crappy values.
So there are huge challenges here. Frankly, this country, overall, doesn’t care. Check out Moyers’s interview w/David Simon – disturbing, thought-provoking and in my opinion, heart-breakingly true.
But for a mini-infusion of something positive, check out EPA.net. They’re the only youth-centered org in Silicon Valley doing what they do. And they need funding.
i want to be a cop wen i grow up. Cops inspire me. i just love them.