Anonymous
Update by the Santa Barbara Police Department
On March 2, 2023, at 4:58 PM, Santa Barbara Police Officers responded to the 900 Block of Chapala Street for a reported assault in progress.
Officers arrived on scene, and during the initial investigation determined no assault occurred. It appeared to 9-1-1 callers that an individual was actively assaulting a male laying on the ground, however it was determined the individual was attempting to perform CPR on the unresponsive adult male.
Santa Barbara City Fire and AMR Paramedics arrived on scene and continued CPR for approximately 30 minutes. The male was pronounced dead at the scene and the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Coroner responded.
The cause of death is currently unknown, and the investigation is ongoing. The name of the decedent is being withheld pending notification to next of kin.
Large Police Response by Canary Hotel
By an edhat reader
Driving by the corner of Carrillo & Chapala around 5:30pm (Thursday) there was a large police presence, about a dozen officers putting with a body on the ground covered by a sheet. Anyone have any insight into what happened?
Heard it was some type of assault. Male victim, required CPR.
Unsure what the condition or status of the victim is.
~Bob on the Scanner
Surprising there’s no more info about this.
Also, there’s an artcile on noozhawk
Give the coroner a chance to contact next of kin!
4am – wow, pretty early to be up and so angry. I meant no information on other news outlets when it happened yesterday 11 hours before you came to chastise.
Typical response without real information
“Typical response without real information” – yeah, so why’d you respond?
died suddenly ™
Still today, the most common 1st syptom of heart desease is death. That’s not good for us.
This is terrible. I feel obviously for the decedent, and also for the person trying to save his life. How horrible that so few people know CPR that it was perceived as assault. May all find peace.
They weren’t being kicked, the reporting party was wrong. If people would actually try to help they would see that.
Sac, they probably were the ones that called to misreport what was going on.
No doubt! The scanner reports were of someone kicking him in the head. Talk about bystanders being total idiots and ALSO not getting involved, which would have told them if it was assault or CPR pretty quickly.
SEABIRD, When someone is being repeatedly kicked that’s not recognized as CPR.
SANTABARBARNATIVE – where you there?
I heard the dispatch say the calls coming said it was assault so SBPD officers responded as if it was an assault. It was the officers on the scene who determined it was not an assault but CPR in progress.
~Bob on the Scanner