Crime & Safety
Video: Residents React to Santa Cruz Police Shooting
A Buddhist, two moms and a business owner reflect on the Feb. 26, 2013 tragedy that took the lives of three people, two detectives and the suspect who killed them.
How did "sleepy hippie" Santa Cruz go from a tranquil coastal town to four murders, an armed robbery and a UCSC student shot in the head during a robbery in the past few weeks—all semingly unrelated but shocking acts of violence.
On Wednesday, Patch asked a Buddhist, two moms and a businessman if the Feb. 26 fatal shooting of Santa Cruz Police Detectives Sgt. Loran "Butch" Baker and Elizabeth Butler and their assailant was the tipping point for the mayhem and this is what they had to say.
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