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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) —
Violence again struck the community near the University of California, Santa Barbara, a year after a 22-year-old's rampage left six students dead.
Two university students in their early 20s were shot Monday night after fighting with two men who came to their apartment just a block or two from campus, authorities said.
Neither of the suspects are students. One of them fled, and the other was held by neighbors until police arrived. James Joshua Taylor, 22, of Lompoc was arrested and taken to a hospital for head injuries he got in the fight.
The second suspect drove away in a white sedan, prompting a search of the campus and a lockdown of student dormitories for about two hours. People living nearby also were urged to stay inside until getting the all-clear.
Jose Guadalupe Gutierrez, 19, later checked himself into a hospital to be treated for unspecified injuries, Santa Barbara County sheriff's spokeswoman Kelly Hoover said early Tuesday. The Goleta resident was connected to the crimes and arrested.
The victims, whose names were not released, received gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening and were being treated Tuesday at the hospital, Hoover said. One was shot once in the stomach, the other once in the chest, Hoover said.
Investigators have not identified a motive for the shootings. A handgun was recovered at the scene.
Gutierrez and Taylor could face charges including attempted murder, robbery and participation in a criminal street gang, Hoover said. It wasn't immediately known if they have lawyers.
Although the violence had nothing to do with the rampage a year ago, it occurred in the same square-mile community of small apartments and houses that is home to thousands of university students.
Last May in the community of Isla Vista, Elliot Rodger killed six UCSB students and wounded 14 other people before killing himself.
Rodger stabbed his two roommates and their friend, then gunned down two women outside a sorority house and shot a man standing in a deli as he drove through town, firing a semi-automatic handgun and plowing into pedestrians with his BMW.
Rodger, who wasn't a student or alumnus, had posted a manifesto and a series of online videos voicing contempt for everyone from his roommates to the human race but reserving special hate for two groups: the women he says kept him a virgin and the men they chose instead.
In one video, he said, "I'll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you."
In a final handwritten journal entry on May 23, he wrote: "This is it. In one hour I will have my revenge on this cruel world. I HATE YOU ALLLL! DIE."
ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama has failed live up to a campaign promise to push through immigration legislation, but he has met a post-election pledge to slow deportations with or without approval from Congress.
Since October, the Homeland Security Department has sent home the fewest immigrants in the country illegally since Obama took office in 2009, according to internal government data obtained by The Associated Press.
In fact, with 127,000 removals though the first six months of the government's fiscal year that started in October, the administration is on track to remove the fewest immigrants since the middle of former President George W. Bush's second term in 2006.
Beginning shortly before his re-election in 2012, Obama has taken a series of steps to slow deportations, including creating a program to allow some young immigrants to stay and work in the country illegally for up to two years at a time.
His effort to shield more than 4 million immigrants from deportation by expanding that protection program to the parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents is on hold after a federal judge in Texas blocked its start.
AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press
DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press
Schools reopened across the city and tensions seemed to ease Wednesday after Baltimore made it through the first night of its curfew without the widespread violence many had feared.
With 3,000 police and National Guardsmen keeping the peace and preventing a repeat of the looting and arson that erupted on Monday, the citywide, 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew ended with no reports of disturbances.
Baltimore's school system opened and after-school sports and other activities were set to resume. Monday's riots began when high schools let out for the day and students clashed with police near a major bus transfer point.
But life was unlikely to get completely back to normal anytime soon: The curfew was set to go back into effect at 10 p.m. And in what promised to be one of the weirdest spectacles in major-league history, Wednesday afternoon's Baltimore Orioles game at Camden Yards was closed to the public for safety reasons. Press box seats were full, but the grandstands were empty as the first pitch was thrown.
Activists stressed that they will continue to press for answers in the case of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man whose death from a spinal-cord injury under mysterious circumstances while in police custody set off the riots.
A few dozen protesters gathered outside the office of Baltimore's top prosecutor to demand swift justice. Organizers say they are rallying in support of State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who took office in January and pledged during her campaign to address aggressive police practices.
Mosby's office is expected to get a report from police on Friday. She will then face a decision on whether and how to pursue charges against the six police officers who arrested Gray.
The curfew got off to a not-so-promising start Thursday night when about 200 protesters ignored warnings from police and pleas from pastors and other community activists to disperse. Some threw water bottles or lay down on the ground.
A line of officers behind riot shields hurled tear gas canisters and fired pepper balls at the crowd, which dispersed in a matter of minutes.
Just before midnight Tuesday, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts declared the curfew a success.
"We do not have a lot of active movement throughout the city as a whole. ... Tonight I think the biggest thing is the citizens are safe, the city is stable," he said. "We hope to maintain it that way."
Police said 35 people were arrested after the curfew went into effect.
In an interview broadcast Wednesday on "The Steve Harvey Morning Show," President Barack Obama said the riots show that police departments need to build more trust in black communities.
The president also said underlying problems such as poor education, drugs and limited job opportunities must be addressed.
Looting, fires and gunfire broke out overnight in Ferguson, Missouri, during protests triggered by Gray's death in Baltimore. Ferguson was rocked by violence last year over the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer.