Updated on May 1, 2021 at 10:48 am
A woman is suing the frontman of the San Diego-based metal band As I Lay Dying, alleging she suffered second-degree burns when he sprayed a flammable liquid into a fire pit at his parents North County residence.
Vivienne Barcena alleges that she was standing near the fire pit on Dec. 12 when Timothy Lambesis squirted an accelerant into it, causing flames to explode out and up her arm, back and mid-section.
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Lambesis was also injured in the fire, which he referenced in a Dec. 16 Instagram post that featured a photo of him laid up in a hospital bed. In the caption, he wrote, The entire gas cap fell off when trying to use a little from the trickle tip to get a bonfire started. Gas got all over my clothes and I ended up burning 25% of my body.
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The 32-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a parking valet then wounding four others in Gaslamp Quarter all apparently unprovoked attacks with a “ghost gun” pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges Thursday.
Travis Fereydoun Sarreshteh is also charged with four counts of attempted murder and a count of assault with a firearm, as well as gun allegations. He faces more than 100 years to life if convicted.
San Diego Superior Court Judge Laura Halgren ordered that Sarreshteh remain jailed without bail, although the defense can later come back and ask a judge to consider setting bail or conditions of release.
San Diego County district attorney moves to lift all gang injunctions
San Diego Dist. Atty. Summer Stephan speaks at a media briefing in 2019.
(Sam Hodgson / San Diego Union-Tribune)
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In a move some view as a win for criminal justice reform, San Diego County Dist. Atty. Summer Stephan said this week that her office has filed petitions in court to lift all 20 injunctions against street gangs in cities throughout the county.
Seven of the 20 gang injunctions court-approved orders that restrict the movements of alleged gang members were dissolved as of Tuesday, with approval from judges in San Diego Superior Court.
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The injunctions are court orders restricting the most active and dangerous gang members from congregating with other known gang members, fighting, carrying weapons and intimidation. However, no gang injunctions have been filed by the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office in the past eight years. The oldest existing injunction dates back to 1997.
The order remains in effect for a lifetime unless that person applies for removal and meets certain criteria.
“In our county, civil gang injunctions were put in place 10 to 20 years ago and for the most part had become stale, and in many cases, continue to cause hardships for people who have moved on and are trying to get a job or connect with relatives,” Stephan said in a statement.