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[QUOTE]Originally posted by 92_chp: [QB] Here is the story, the link takes forever. Stockton resident lured to East Palo Alto via Craigslist to buy a car in a 'setup' robbery East Palo Alto police are investigating two separate shootings along Cooley Avenue Wednesday, including one that may have stemmed from a Craigslist setup, Detective David Carson said. The first happened sometime before 3:20 p.m. Thursday, when police were called to Stanford Hospital after a 22-year-old man arrived at the emergency room suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, Carson said. The man was in stable condition and lucid enough to tell hospital staff his name and that he lives in Redwood City, but details about the shooting were unclear, Carson said. The man told police he was in his car in the area of Cooley and Scofield avenues when a car containing two or three people pulled up behind him, then drove up along his driver's side and fired several rounds into his vehicle. "We need his cooperation to find out exactly what (happened)," Carson said. "His information was vague at best." Carson said the victim was not inebriated, but police are missing details such as whether the victim's car was stopped at the time of the shooting. They also don't have information on a possible motive. "There is more going on than what he is saying," Carson said. "We're basically getting that someone came up and shot him for nothing. There's a motive there, but he wouldn't relate that to us." "I plan on contacting the victim again and I'm hoping he'll open up and give us the information we need," he said. Hours later, around 6:15 p.m., police were called to a second shooting nearby. A 32-year-old man was found suffering from gunshot wounds in an apartment complex parking lot at 1928 Cooley Ave., Carson said. The man, who lives in the complex, had been taking out his trash when he heard gunshots. He then realized he had been shot but did not see the shooter, Carson said. When the man was transported to Stanford Hospital for his injuries, police found another victim who had been shot at the same location. Neither victim's injuries were life-threatening and both were in stable condition. Investigators discovered that the second victim, a 21-year-old man, had driven from his home in Stockton to buy a car he had seen advertised on Craigslist, Carson said. He had been in contact by phone and e-mail with the people who were allegedly selling the car, Carson said. The sellers knew the man was driving to East Palo Alto Wednesday with the intent to buy the car, and when he arrived the "sellers" took the man's cash at gunpoint and shot him. "It was basically a setup," said Carson, adding that he has leads in the case and expects to find the suspects. "It's quite solvable," he said. He said the man who was shot while taking out his trash appears to have simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Carson said Wednesday's shootings were not connected and the proximity of the shootings is a coincidence. He added that while East Palo Alto has occasional bouts of criminal activity, two shootings in one day is unusual. "We have our flare-ups, where things go sideways, but as a norm it is unusual for this to happen," Carson said. Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to contact Detective Carson at 650-521-3505, East Palo Alto police dispatch at 650-321-1112 or the police tip line at 650-853-8477. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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