Edhat Staff
Source: Santa Barbara Police Department
On April 12th, Easter Sunday, at about 1:50 pm, Santa Barbara Police Officers were dispatched to reports of shots fired in the vicinity of Punta Gorda Street and Salinas Street. Officers discovered evidence of a shooting, including spent shell casings.
Several occupants of an involved vehicle were contacted in the area during a high-risk stop. Bullet holes were found in the vehicle.
An investigation ensued, and after several significant leads were exhausted, Santa Barbara Police Detectives identified the suspect of the shooting as 24-year-old Daniel Djamali-Kahi who resides in Goleta. A search and arrest warrant was authorized for Djamali-Kahi and his residence on Covington Way, in Goleta.
Yesterday, on April 14th at about 7 P.M., the Santa Barbara Police SWAT team and crisis negotiators, assisted by the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s SWAT team, served that warrant.
Djamali-Kahi was arrested without incident. A search of the residence revealed two firearms, a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol, and an AR-15 assault rifle as well as hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Djamali-Kahi was booked at Santa Barbara County Jail for 246 PC, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and 245(a)(2)PC assault with a firearm.
Related Articles
April 12, 2020: Easter Sunday Shooting on the Eastside
April 14, 2020: Police Issue Shelter in Place Order While Serving Search Warrant
Will this punk get out with no bail? He better not!
Just another responsible gun owner.
Responsible gun owners don’t make the news because they know how to handle their weapon(s) and adhere to standard gun safety measures.
Until they don’t.
The story says he had an “assault rifle.” Those are outlawed in California. Since it’s illegal, he could not possibly have had it right?
CHIP – Shooting into an occupied vehicle is also outlawed in California. Since it’s illegal, he could not have possibly done it right? Logic.
Glad no LatinX people were involved in the making of this story. Is he a UC student? A Civil Law Suit is in order to pay for the damge to the beamer. Does vehicle insurance cover gunshots??
With all due respect, MAC, please compare the numbers of deaths from car accidents and homicide/suicides by firearms for the state of California. You’d be shocked. If you’re aim is to save lives, the you should advocate the banning of cars.
That’s an idiotic argument. Cars are necessary. Outside of law enforcement and the military, firearms are not, at least in civilized societies.
quod sic: Bona res est, quae non est eorum qui sunt in libro prophetae Addo latine accessio fuerunt. quod est nice videre de conservis antiquae linguae usor qui sollicitissimum circa alios, qui de Latina lingua antiqua uti.
I agree MACPUZL and its the same argument I try to have with my wife’s boyfriend but he’s usually busy when he stops by which gives me more time with the 4 year old son he has with my wife of ten years to teach him that it is much better to depend on the police and military to protect you, and if by chance some brute accosts you with a gun, it is far better to be armed with a shriek and compliance than to have access to a….weapon!
Speaking of idiotic arguments…so you like the pollution that results from cars, so someone lazy person can have fast food delivered to them? For an anti-gun guy I figured you’d be down for the whole green new deal and be anti-car as well. Hey, it’s a free country, so I’m not judging, just quit pointing fingers. And what do you mean by “civilized societies”? Do you prefer the good old days before guns, when we used cross-bows and lived through the Black Death? Or do you like the idea of firearms, but just in the hands of authoritarian agencies that can oppress us, which is certainly not my idea of civilized.
That’s just whataboutism. And your basic premise is flawed in that firearms deaths are at a similar level to automobile fatalities. And yes, AGW is real unless you like ignoring climate data, and is actually a more pressing issue than the pandemic. Remember, perr-reviewed data from you or nobody GAS.
Maybe you should compare the ration of gun owners : gun deaths and car owners : car death. I did that math for you – 4.2 million people own guns in California. There are 14.1 million cars on the road. And yet, 3,184 people died in gun deaths last year in CA and only 400 more (3,563) died by vehicle. That’s a little over 3 deaths in 4,200 gun owners compared with 3.6 deaths per 14,000 vehicles, if you’re keeping track. Guns, by per capita, are WAY more deadly than cars.
Maybe you should compare the ration of gun owners : gun deaths and car owners : car death. I did that math for you – 4.2 million people own guns in California. There are 14.1 million cars on the road. And yet, 3,184 people died in gun deaths last year in CA and only 400 more (3,563) died by vehicle. That’s a little over 3 deaths in 4,200 gun owners compared with 3.6 deaths per 14,000 vehicles, if you’re keeping track. Guns, by per capita, are WAY more deadly than cars.
Taxionna, I did a quick search and found the same numbers you did. I believe it is important to add that about 2/3 of the firearm deaths are suicides.
Gifted–do you realize the fallacy of your argument or are you being sarcastic? Once you define “responsible” gun owners as those who don’t make the news you immediately eliminate the gun owners who were “responsible” until they did make the news. Never will your defined class ever contain a malfeasor. How perfect for your fatuous position. Meanwhile the rest of us have to go about our lives in the shadow of the huge amount of weaponry in the hands of the scary public.
I’d be curious to find out the rest of the story. He doesn’t look like your typical drive-by shooter. What was this all about?
12:32 – What does a typical drive-by shooter look like? I’ve seen plenty of non “gangsters” getting in trouble for road rage or other violent situations.