WCPD: Jason Amen Watts The forgotten shooting victim

 

 

 

 Jason Amen Watts


Published on June 13, 2001,  
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) 
CORONER'S INQUESTS A MIXED BAG

More than a few people were puzzled by a recent coroner's inquest ruling that it was accidental when a Walnut Creek police officer killed a Pittsburg man Feb. 13. 
After all, Officer David Wright testified during the May 29 hearing that he fired four bullets that killed 23-year-old Jason Amen Watts. 

Yet the nine-member panel ruled the shooting an accident rather than "at the hands of another." 

The ruling sheds light on an enduring quarrel between civil rights attorneys. . 

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Fake-Credit-Card-Suspect-Draws-gun-Shot-Dead-by-2952175.php

Fake Credit Card Suspect Draws gun, Shot Dead by Police / 2nd person ever killed by Walnut Creek cops

Charlie Goodyear, Matthew Taylor, Chronicle Staff Writers

Published 4:00 am, Thursday, February 15, 2001

A police officer shot and killed an armed suspect at an electronics store in Walnut Creek after he refused to drop his gun, authorities said yesterday.  Jason Amen Watts, who, according to court records, had a prior conviction for theft and burglary in Walnut Creek in 1998.

Pete Bennett in Kasier Hospital
Walnut Creek CA Jan. 2015
Beaten again with
No Police Report
Yes that is C-collar 

Police identified the slain suspect as 23-year-old 

Officers responded shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a man using a fraudulent credit card at the Good Guys at 2044 Mt. Diablo Boulevard.

Customer Jeff Stimson was 10 feet away when he saw police confront Watts, then shout, "Don't move! Keep your hands out."

The officers repeated the commands several times before the shooting began, which Stimson heard but did not see.

"I first thought it was the TVs making a popping noise," Stimson said, adding he thought he heard a total of five shots.

"It was shocking," Stimson said. "It's too close to home."

Police were releasing few details of the shooting yesterday but Lt. Damien Sandoval confirmed that two veteran officers have been placed on paid leave pending an investigation by the department and the Contra Costa District Attorney's Office.

Sandoval said only one officer was believed to have fired at Watts after the suspect drew a gun and pointed it at police.

"We're not sure yet how many times," Sandoval said. "It was multiple shots. We don't know if there was an exchange of gunfire."

Asked whether the officers had told Watts to drop his weapon, Sandoval said,

"There were some orders shouted. There were orders shouted back and forth."

Watts was later pronounced dead at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.

Police have had prior contacts with Watts, whose last known address was in Pittsburg. A man who answered the telephone at Watts' family home said his relatives were not available for comment.

Investigators had trouble determining the identity of the suspect after finding several "conflicting" documents on his body. Watts was recognized by some officers and his name was eventually confirmed through fingerprints, Sandoval said.

In 1998, Watts pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery and petty theft. He was sentenced to 90 days in the county jail, a $100 fine and three years probation. The state Department of Corrections has no records for Watts.

Detectives were also looking into another possible male suspect who was arrested outside the store for an outstanding warrant. Police would not say if that person was a suspected accomplice.

"There was another person contacted at the scene," Sandoval said. "They're trying to clear that up right now."

Yesterday's incident was only the second fatal shooting by Walnut Creek police. In December 1999, police killed a suspect near the Broadway Plaza Shopping Center after he fired at them.

Asked about how the officers responded Tuesday, Sandoval said, "They were confronted with the most extreme set of circumstances," adding he believed the officers acted appropriately.

Read More

The Homeless Programmer Profile hired by PG&E (me)

By PETE BENNETT - 

Posted: 10/29/2013

Reposted to Protect My Sons

The Untold Story that has never been told 

Walnut Creek CA: In March of 2011 the Vice President of Ravenell

Enterprizes hired me to work for PG&E's highly sensitive Gas Transmission Group Hydrotesting project.  There is something wrong with how I was hired, what occurred while working for PG&E, the critical pipeline data, the memorial day high speed swoop, the the 4th of July Parade Danville, the loss of my son, the Walnut Creek Police handling of events with my former roommate, the arrest on July 7th 2011, the unknown warrants, the lack of a license, the back support, the fact that I was recently homeless and how Ravenelle arrives with a job, a car and money then my car gets totaled by a police officer connected to an arson fire who is friends with cops now in Federal Prison? 


You be the judge and perhaps think this through when you watch the video I found with a man walking away from the San Bruno fire with what looks like two gas cans. 

I've been analyzing the video while cross correlating other videos taken after the neighborhood was on fire as it appears a news crew got close enough to the same intersection and what is missing is just as important as what's there. 

The Power Struggle with PG&E 
As for PG&E I've personally been battered many times since this fire occurred, my car has been totaled, accidents, punches, muggings and High Performance Engineers in my office about a week after this fire with a San Francisco Police Lieutenant who knows Mayor Newsome who knows that damn well that his former employee was a problem for me as I went up to Newsome in November 2010 with information about the SFPD.  

Somewhere someone is fibbing and the rest are running for the hills while my sons rot in a trailer, living on Welfare, while I battle Walnut Creek Police officers in a verbal campaign of words.   

The Endless Battles with Attorneys - you've won! 

In summer 2011 I spoke to PG&E Attorney Kate Dyer in length about my missing laptop, the accidents, hit and run plus my 2004 arson fire where I'm now positive a CHP officer intercepted the investigation by being first on the scene thereby preventing an attempted murder investigation.  Just a hunch but I called around outside of Contra Costa County asking other fire agencies about this event - they all said "you mean with flames shooting back over 100 feet no investigation?"  Yep that's what happened. 


The next problem facing Contra Costa County investigators is how would the Kinder Morgan Fire be perceived if my Mid-August Fire been determined to be Jet Fuel? 

My destination that day was Walnut Creek with possibly exiting onto to the Broadway extension which would have brought me past the same location.  I call CHP in Martinez, their answer is what do you want us to do?  Perhaps you could investigate, I've dealt with the FBI since 1988 on numerous cases, in 2001 the Arson Fire at 1776 Ygnacio Valley Road is linked to my former attorneys offices.  

If my 2004 fire was investigated then if the Kinder Morgan Fire occurred as it did then would this change how the NTSB would have investigated the PG&E Pipeline fire given the truly odd coincidences? 

I think we're going to see dual murder investigations arise from what I'm saying.   

PG&E owes me over $10,000, the Contra Costa Bar Association won't help, it's clear that my legal events have been tainted and I'm the only person in the United States that can, my attorney was beaten, that a Danville Building Inspector beat me, that my truck blew up on the Freeway, that there are no police reports about the incident, that ConFire couldn't find records for the 1776 fire, that my attorney's brother in-law was murdered, that I know three persons killed in three separate plane crashes, that five houses in my old neighborhood could have been arson fires, that two murders occurred next to my house in 1979 and the Chemical shed was hit by an arsonist but when I ask questions 30 years later? 

The pile of Bulls--- so thick it's pretty clear we've got a conspiracy but on 10/28/2013 I connected the attorneys connected me were once PG&E attorneys.  

I've had incidents at Safeway Walnut Creek, Oak Park Center, four offices in Walnut Creek, I've been beaten up, nearly run over and killed in Walnut Creek, I've posted videos of homeless men that say the same thing, I know murder victims spanning 30 years plus personally know politicians who've died from Spinal Meningitis, Contracted bacterial meningitis but I know they all know each other.  

It's time extract who doesn't have an illness, car accident or murder as this is a story of the last man standing.  

Read More