Monday March 18, 2019
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Volume 105 Issue 24
Officer-involved shooting sends man to hospital Suspect stood behind stolen vehicle in alleyway on 800 block of Harbor Boulevard. KAITLIN MARTINEZ Daily Titan
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Officers secure the alleyway after the suspect was taken to the hospital.
On Friday, March 15, there was a shooting involving an officer in an alleyway near the corner of West North Street and Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim, according to Anaheim Police Sgt. Daron Wyatt. Wyatt said two officers found a suspicious person in his 20s or 30s at 10:43 a.m. The police called for assistance, then radioed that they were in an officer-involved shooting. According to police updates, the suspect is currently in critical condition. Desi Noriega, an Anaheim resident, said it happened in the alleyway behind Clinica
Medicina General and Pediatra or Good Samaritan Medical Clinic, on West North Street near Harbor Boulevard. Clinica Medicina General and Pediatra is a local clinic that treats general and infant health. Noriega was at home cleaning when he and his mother heard sirens, then gunshots. “I walked out and a block away from my house, I actually went and looked in one of the alleyways and they had a white car there. I don’t know if that’s the victim’s car or not but we did see the officers pull out a couple of semi-automatics and run towards that vehicle,” Noriega said. The suspect was standing behind a stolen car, according to the Anaheim Police Department via Twitter. A later Twitter update stated that a handgun was recovered at the scene. According to Wyatt, there
was one, not two suspects. William Noxon, a resident who lived three houses down from the incident, said that an ambulance took the suspect from the alleyway. Anaheim resident Yolanda Real received a call around 12:20 p.m. from her niece, who was at the clinic. Real ran over and officers let her cross the police tape to check on her niece. “We see people that were scared because they hear a lot of shooting but everybody’s fine in there,” Real said. The shooting is under investigation by the Orange County District Attorney’s office and the Anaheim Police Department Homicide detail. The officers involved were wearing body cameras that were on and recording during the incident. They will be reviewed during the investigation.
Titans collapse under Big West lights CSUF men’s basketball allowed UCI to shoot 61.8 percent from the field. JORDAN MENDOZA Daily Titan
Poor shooting and UC Irvine’s efficiency from 3-point range ended the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team’s chance at becoming back-to-back Big West champions, as they fell to the Anteaters, 92-64, in the Big West Tournament Final Saturday night. UCI’s 28-point victory was the largest win in Big West title game history, and led by as many as 32 points for the night. “They came out and played exceptionally well tonight,” said CSUF head coach Dedrique Taylor. “We ran into a buzzsaw. That team out there, they probably would’ve beat the Lakers.” UCI finished the night shooting 61.8 percent from the field, compared to the Titans’ 41.2 percent. Three-point shooting was the difference in the game, as the Anteaters made 10 of their 14 3-point shots (71.4 percent), while CSUF was 5-for-21 (23.8 percent). The win was UCI’s third time beating the Titans this season,
Forward Johnny Wang puts up a hook shot from the key over UCI’s Elston Jones at the Honda Center.
and the Anteaters head coach Russell Turner said his team’s ability to stop the CSUF offense led to the season sweep. “When we played this team this year, we’ve consistently dominated with our defense, so
there was nothing about what we did tonight that surprised me,” Turner said. UCI’s Max Hazzard and Collin Welp led the game in scoring with 23 points each. Hazzard was named tournament
MVP, as he fueled an 11-0 run early in the game, making three 3-pointers during the stretch. “I have a lot of confidence in my ability to shoot the ball. I put in a lot of work and my teammates and coaches have
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a lot of confidence in me too,” Hazzard said. CSUF senior guard Kyle Allman Jr. led the Titans with 16 points. SEE WELP
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Arboretum hosts annual fresh produce sale The 2019 Veggiepalooza offered 300 different plants in nursery fundraiser. HOSAM ELATTAR Daily Titan
Tomato, pepper, corn, eggplant, onion, bean and pea plants lined the tables behind the green house in the Arboretum this weekend for the 2019 annual Veggiepalooza fundraiser. Veggiepalooza is the Arboretum’s third biggest fundraising event, usually raking in around tens of thousands of dollars
according to Greg Pongetti, the Living Collections Curator at the Arboretum. “Veggiepalooza is our annual vegetable plant sale. We do it every year in spring.We grow 20,000 vegetable plants from seed here at the Arboretum. It’s grown by volunteers and staff, then we offer it in a big weekend plant sale,” said Pongetti. The 20,000 plants were all organically raised in the Arboretum’s nursery with the oldest ones planted in December of last year, said Pongetti. “Seeing all the people here is one of the best things about
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Veggiepalooza and I think they should come here because they should support their local gardens and get some really well grown, great produce,” said Derek Dobbs, a horticulturist at the Arboretum. All the earnings from the event go towards maintaining the Arboretum. Pongetti said the goal for this year is to raise about $50,000. Each plant was sold at $3.50. “It’s important to support the Arboretum because we are in a unique position in Orange County. We are the only botanical garden in the area and there is a
lot of different research and educational uses of the Arboretum. We have over 150,000 annual visitors,” said Pongetti. The Arboretum’s partnership with the city of Fullerton is set to end in 2020, which will result in a loss of $250,000 of funding that is not expected to be offset by the university. Close to 300 different species of vegetables were sold to those who attended the fundraiser, with over 100 varieties of tomatoes and 70 varieties of peppers. Forty-seven new plants were sold this year including the Trinidad Scorpion pepper and the Golden
Gem cherry tomato, according to the Arboretum website. Veggiepalooza takes place in spring, but this year’s yield was undercut by harsh weather conditions. “We have had the coldest February on record. It’s been a very rainy year also. Due to the cold and rain some of our plants have not grown to our desired size,” Pongetti said. Dobbs who helped grow the vegetables said that they even lost some plants due to the cold. SEE GARDEN
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