Woman Dead, Man Injured Following Shooting at Thousand Oaks Mall
March 18, 2018 by admin
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A woman was killed and a man was injured following a shooting at a Ventura County shopping mall Saturday afternoon.
The victim was identified as a 30-year-old woman from Thousand Oaks and the suspect was identified as a 33-year-old man from Los Angeles. The victim and the suspect are a divorced couple with two children, according to Garo Kuredjian of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.
Around 2:15 p.m., the sheriff’s department received a call of shots fired inside the Paper Source store at the Oaks Shopping Center. The victim – who was an employee of the Paper Source store – was “targeted,” the sheriff’s department said.
Shoppers feared an active shooter when gunshots rang out at the Thousands Oaks mall — the result of an attempted murder-suicide. Rick Montanez reports for the NBC4 News at 6 on Saturday, March 17, 2018.
(Published Saturday, March 17, 2018)
It was not an active shooter incident. The shooting is being described as an attempted murder-suicide.
Deputies found the woman dead inside the store and the suspect “gravely injured” from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a nearby hospital and a gun was recovered at the scene.
An update on the suspect’s condition was not immediately available.
Deputies say a man shot and killed his ex-wife at the Thousand Oaks mall where she worked and then turned the gun and shot himself. Rick Montanez reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 17, 2018.
(Published Saturday, March 17, 2018)
“The situation is contained and there is no threat to the public,” the Thousand Oaks Station tweeted around 3:15 p.m.
There are no outstanding suspects, authorities said.
Shoppers ran for safety after hearing the gunshots at the mall. A man who was in the Vans store next door to the Paper Source told NBC4 he heard the shots, ran into the back room and the employees locked the doors.
“It sounded like balloons or firecrackers … we didn’t know what was going on,” Dan Beaton said.
Amid the chaos, shoppers were advised they could seek safety at the VCFD Fire station 30 across the street.
The indoor portion of the Oaks Mall reopened shortly after 4 p.m. The open air portion of the mall remains closed during the investigation.
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Amy Yu and Kevin Esterly timeline: Secrets, suspicions, then one-way tickets
March 18, 2018 by admin
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Forty-five-year-old Kevin Esterly, arrested Saturday in Mexico with 16-year-old Amy Yu of Allentown, has known the girl at least eight years, according to relatives. Police say they developed a ‘secretive relationship.’
2009 to 2010: Amy Yu, daughter of Miu Luu in Allentown, meets Kevin Esterly, his wife, Stacey, and their family at a church in Lowhill Township, western Lehigh County, according to both families. Amy is 7 or 8 years old. Kevin Esterly is in his late 30s.
2013-2017: Kevin Esterly shows increasing interest in Amy Yu, inviting her to join his family on many camping and beach trips, according to both families. She becomes close friends with the oldest of Esterly’s four daughters.
July 2017: Esterly’s wife, Stacey, and Yu’s mother become increasingly uncomfortable with and eventually suspicious of Esterly’s claims of a father-daughter-like relationship with Yu, according to Stacey Esterly’s lawyer and Yu’s mother.
November 2017: Unknown to Amy Yu’s mother, Esterly for the first time signs Yu out of her school at the end of the school day at Lehigh Valley Academy Charter School, in Hanover Township, Northampton County, according to police and Yu’s mother. He gives Amy a ride and she returns home that day, police say.
February 2018: By now, Kevin Esterly, 45, who has a family home in Lowhill Township, has rented an apartment near 14th and Hamilton streets in Allentown, less than four blocks from 16-year-old Amy Yu’s home.
Feb. 9: Miu Luu, Amy Yu’s mother, drives out in the afternoon to pick up her daughter at the Lehigh Valley Academy Charter School, but she’s told Amy already has been picked up by Esterly, according to police and Luu. Luu learns that Amy has listed Esterly as her stepfather in school documents and, since November, Esterly has signed her out from the school 10 times without her mother’s knowledge or permission, according to police and Luu. Luu confronts Esterly about the secret pickups and text messages to her daughter, but he calls suspicions about him “lies and speculation,” according to Luu.
Feb. 10: At Esterly’s Lowhill Township home, he snatches his wife’s “cellphone away from her to prevent her from viewing his Facebook posts,” and she rips his shirt as she tries to stop him from leaving the house, police say. A state trooper is dispatched to break up the fight, according to police. The disturbance is over Amy Yu, according to Stacey Esterly.
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