[Updated: Tue., Sept. 5, 2023, 3:28pm]
It could have been the residual results from the Tremendous Blue Moon Thursday night time, or it was simply the three-day vacation weekend, however Santa Barbara County emergency and regulation enforcement businesses have been busy over Labor Day weekend, responding to assaults, collisions, a dumpster hearth, and a tragic fall off a cliff that left a school scholar useless in Isla Vista. Right here’s a short recap of what occurred over the weekend.
Saturday, September 2
A person was stabbed early Saturday morning on the Eastside close to Milpas and Ortega streets, with Santa Barbara police responding to the scene to search out the sufferer with a single stab wound to the chest. Based on police reviews, the sufferer and the suspect — who fled the scene and was not apprehended — have been concerned in “some kind of verbal altercation” previous to the incident. The sufferer was transported to the hospital and was reported to be in steady situation; the investigation is ongoing, however police say it’s an remoted incident and never gang-related.
Later that night time, Santa Barbara County Hearth responded to an condominium hearth within the Ellwood neighborhood of Goleta. County Hearth spokesperson Scott Safechuck mentioned that residents returned to their residence on Mathilda Drive round 10:30 p.m. to search out their smoke detector alerting and an lively hearth of their unit. The residents used a hearth extinguisher to douse the hearth, which was believed to be confined to a bit of furnishings, though all three tenants have been displaced to the hearth.
Lower than a half-hour later, County Hearth responded to a different name a few miles away in Isla Vista, the place a 19-year-old male had reportedly fallen from a cliff 40 ft to the seaside beneath. The incident occurred close to the 6700 block of Del Playa Drive shortly earlier than 11 p.m., and though there have been fellow college students on the scene who pulled the sufferer from the water to aim CPR, Safechuck reported that {the teenager} was pronounced useless on the scene. It was the eighth deadly cliff fall in Isla Vista over the previous 20 years.
On Tuesday afternoon, Sheriff’s Workplace spokesperson Raquel Zick introduced the Coroner’s Bureau had recognized the sufferer as 19-year-old Benjamin Scott Schurmer of Ojai. County Supervisor Laura Capps, who represents Isla Vista, confirmed in a press release on the incident that he was a scholar at Santa Barbara Metropolis Faculty.
“My coronary heart breaks for the household and associates of the coed whose life was tragically lower quick alongside the cliffs of Isla Vista on Saturday night time,” Capps wrote. “One demise alongside these bluffs is one too many — and we’ve had far too many. Sufficient is sufficient: Cliff security have to be the driving issue. I’ll proceed to push for protecting fencing and different security measures in addition to redoubling the tutorial efforts led by the Isla Vista Neighborhood Service District and others. These bluffs pose an actual hazard to individuals’s lives — it’s time for commonsense security options.”
Sunday, September 3
An inmate at Santa Barbara County’s Major Jail was reported useless after being discovered unresponsive in his cell and transported to the hospital early Sunday morning, in line with a press release from Zick.
Zick mentioned the decedent — who was recognized Tuesday as 37-year-old Goleta resident Luis Enrique Duron Rodriguez — had been booked into the jail on Thursday, August 31, on felony prices of driving below the affect leading to harm and hit-and-run with accidents, in addition to misdemeanor reckless driving. He was positioned in a “single remark cell as a consequence of medical considerations,” and checked at common intervals, Zick mentioned, till early Sunday when he was found unresponsive by deputies who tried life-saving measures with WellPath medical employees. County Hearth and American Medical Response have been known as to the jail, and the inmate was transported by paramedics to a close-by hospital, the place he died a couple of hours later.
Shortly earlier than midday on Sunday, the Santa Barbara Metropolis Hearth Division doused a hearth in an condominium advanced on the Westside close to Modoc Highway. The hearth was exterior the advanced and included a dumpster, a close-by tree, and furnishings.
Later round 5 p.m., County Hearth and California Freeway Patrol (CHP) responded to a two-vehicle collision in Orcutt with 4 occupants sustaining average accidents. The injured occupants, three grownup females and one minor feminine, have been transported by way of two ambulances to Marian Regional Medical Heart.
Monday, September 4
On Labor Day round 4:30 p.m., a lady escaped a scary state of affairs close to Freeway 1 in Orcutt after being concerned in a solo collision that left her automotive disabled instantly on the practice tracks within the path of an oncoming Amtrak Pacific Surfliner. She was capable of escape unscathed, although the practice plowed into her black sedan and dragged it 600 ft alongside the tracks earlier than coming to a halt. There have been no accidents reported among the many 95 passengers on board, and the accident is below investigation.
Then within the early night round 6 p.m., emergency crews have been known as to the scene of a bike accident that sparked a vegetation hearth close to Vandenberg Village. The motorcyclist sustained main accidents and was transported to the hospital whereas firefighters labored on the small blaze, which was stopped at below two acres lower than an hour later.
Based on Sheriff’s Workplace arrest logs, a complete of 42 drivers have been arrested for DUI from Friday to Monday — with 12 arrested on Saturday and 14 on Sunday — whereas a DUI checkpoint carried out by the Santa Maria Police Division on Friday night time yielded three DUI arrests and 12 citations out of 174 vehicles screened.
