Pittsburg, CA Cop gunned down

[zander_zye]

Take from KPIX.com

The Contra Costa County Coroner has confirmed that a Pittsburg police officer has died of a gunshot wound.

The officer was found in an unmarked police car in front of 2124 Abbott Street. Neighbors say the car had been parked there for some time before other officers arrived and pulled the man out of the car. He was wearing a suit, not a uniform.

Residents of the street were ordered to leave their homes and stay at least a block away.

Initially it appeared that officers on the scene were looking for someone in the area, but it is unknown if there is a suspect. Neighbors say that plain-clothes police officers had been at that address on and off for about a week, because there had been a shooting there about a week ago.

An autopsy will be conducted Wednesday.

Zander's note
Officer Ray Giacomelli was a 23 veteran of the Pittburg Police Department. PPD is a department of around 80 officers located in the Delta region of the SF Bay (Northeast of San Francisco). He leaves behind a wife and two daughters.

The guy they are looking for, Earl Foster, is of course an ex-convict out on parole. Hopefully they are saving a needle for this scrote with his name on it at Quinten.

[zander_zye]

Update

Stanaslaus County Deputies, along with the Modesto PD cornered Earl Foster at a strip mall in Modesto, CA. When ordered to "show his hands", Earl Foster decided to show his gun (wrong answer). SCSD Deputies shot and wounded Foster. Foster continued to return fire until being squelched permanently by Modesto PD.

None of this will bring back an apparently gifted officer and father/husband. It is too bad the parole boards don't possess a crystal ball to screen these types.

BTW: Officer Giacomelli was investigating another murder at the time of his homicide. Police believe that Foster killed his best friend in while high on meth.