Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Tasha Dawn Norris

Thursday, July 9, 2009
Reported by: Ryan Foran

An investigation into a deadly shooting in San Miguel continues. The incident happened shortly after 2 p.m. on Thursday afternoon on the 500 block of 11th Street.

Investigators have not released the names of the two people involved as they are still waiting to notify the next of kin.

While there are still more questions than answers right now, we do know a man shot and killed a woman inside their apartment in San Miguel.

The man who shot the victim is telling investigators it was an accident.

Officers roped off the parking lot at the apartment complex where the shooting occurred as they started to try and put the pieces together.

Investigators say the single gunshot that was fired and killed the woman was first reported by a San Miguel fire official.

"Apparently one of the San Miguel fire inspector units had knocked on the door of a residence, one of the residents came to the door and said there had been a shooting," said San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's spokesman Rob Bryn.

Bryn also told KSBY News that the victim was in her mid-twenties, and that the shooter is telling investigators the shooting was not intentional.

"The claim is that it was an accidental discharge that struck one of the people in the house."

An official from Camp Roberts tells KSBY News that the couple worked at Camp Roberts in the satellite communications division, and that the two military personnel on scene Thursday were from the Army base.

A neighbor also told KSBY News that the couple worked with her boyfriend at Camp Roberts, and that the two have young children.

"Now knowing that it was his wife, they have two kids, and it's just really hard. I don't know how they're going to deal or what's going to be going on with that," Alexis Miller said.

"I know that there are children that are a part of the family, but we believe they were in daycare," Bryn added.

An Army spokesman says the Army is not involved in the investigation but is cooperating with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department.


Thursday, July 9, 2009

Reported by: Sarah Spotten

Rob Bryn with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department has confirmed that a woman has died after an apparent accidental shooting in San Miguel.

Sheriff's deputies and several fire departments responded to a home in the 500 block of 11th Street at about 2:15 p.m. Thursday to a report of an accidental shooting. The sheriff's department says that an man accidentally shot and killed an woman.

Authorities have not yet released the identities of the man and woman.

Investigators are still on the scene.


Thursday, July 9, 2009

Reported by: Sarah Spotten

We are tracking a developing story this afternoon in San Miguel, where first responders are on the scene of an apparent accidental shooting.

Rob Bryn with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department says deputies are responding to a report of an accidental shooting that happened at about 2:15 p.m. this afternoon in the 500 block of 11th Street.

According to emergency radio, Cal Fire and San Miguel Fire and Camp Roberts Fire Department have also been sent to the scene.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Reported by: Sarah Spotten

Sheriff's deputies arrest a man accused of shooting and killing his wife.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department arrested 24-year-old John Norris Tuesday and charged him with involuntary manslaughter.

Norris claimed he accidentally shot his wife, 24-year-old Tasha Norris, on July 9 in their San Miguel home. He told detectives that he tripped while putting his handgun away, and the weapon discharged, killing his wife.

Norris was booked into the San Luis Obispo County Jail on $25,000 bail.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

January - March

Well it has been an interesting start to the year. January was pretty uneventful, just started up taking classes again, and adjusting to a new class/sleeping schedule. In February DBF and I celebrated our 1 year. I took two Jr. High girls from the youth group to a weekend retreat. That was fun. I got to catch up with some people I haven't seen for a while. I finished the month by having my wisdom teeth out. Half way through Feb. DBF got hired on with the Sheriff's Dept. His last day at the PD will be the 13th of March so in 2 days! and he will start for the SO on Monday, the 16th. Very exciting. Currently, DBF and I are working on repainting his storage shed, and starting to get spring fever. Even though everything has been going good we have had some grief strike. We both lost family members this week. On the same day no less, and neither of us are able to make it to the funerals. But I will at least get to see my family the day after when I go back home for a friends wedding reception. It has seemed like it has been so busy, however since I wrote it all out it doesn't seem to have been that busy. LOL. Anyways, That's all I got for now.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Vacation, Christmas Celebrations, and Moving

So Christmas is long over now, thank goodness. Actually it wasn't that bad. DBF and I went on vacation with my parents to the Ozarks for my family's Christmas. We left after DBF got off work, so around 4pm on Dec. 20th, the drive down was a long one. We made it all the way to the Arkansas/Missouri line before we got lost...lol...and that is only because our handy-dandy lil GPS unit is about 10yrs old and tried to send us backroads. Last time I was in the Ozarks I was about 10yo and I for the life of me don't remember the roads being to scary, but I was terrified the rest of the way, constantly yelling at DBF to SLOW DOWN, maybe it was because it was dark, but it was SCARY! But we made it safe and sound. We arrived at the condo at about 10pm.

The first day we were there didn't go quite as planned. Its was supposed to be a relaxing/wake-up whenever/lounge-around-all-day, kind of day. Didn't quite turn out that way. We woke up at 8am to a freezing cold condo, with no electricity. So we decided to go driving around and find a place to eat. Keep in mind that the roads the night before had scared me, so it was just music to my ears to know that we were going to go drive around. Anyways, we made it back to the condo around 1pm and the electricity was back on. So Mom cooked our Christmas dinner and we had our family Christmas that night. So all in all it wasn't a bad day, just didn't get to relax like we wanted.

On day two, we again woke up to no electricity. We were getting a little tired of it at this point. But we had decided the night before that we would head to Branson for the day. So it wasn't that bad. So we left at about noon to head to Branson. We went to old Branson where they just put in this really cool strip mall along with a Bass Pro Shop. It was really cool and had some good shops, I'd say we spent about 3hrs there. Then we decided to head to Silver Dollar City to see the lights. it was very pretty and very breath taking. I guess 4 million lights will do that. While we were there we saw a live version of the Christmas Story, DBF and I finally took some old time pictures (something I had wanted to do forever) and we watched glass blowing. We were getting ready to head out when we heard that the Parade of Lights was about to start so we stuck around for that, and then we got to see the dancing tree. After that we headed back to the Condo.

Day three was pretty decent too, we actually had electricity when we woke up, lol. We spent the day in Eureka Springs, and shopped, pretty much all day. I think we got back to the condo at about 5pm. We finished off the day with card games and drinking and relaxing.

Day four was the drive home, it was very uneventful.
So all in all the vacation was a success, and DBF and I survived our first road trip.

Christmas Day we spent with DBF's Mom and Stepdad. I made Christmas dinner at DBF's house and we ate once he got off work. It was a good day, spent with his family and relaxing.
The next day, Friday, was also spent with DBF's family, his Dad's side, in Salina. It was interesting. I got to meet the rest of the family, and got to spend time with DBF's Sisters and their Children. And that Wraps up our Christmas.

Saturday I began moving to my new apartment, from my house. It had to have been the worst move ever. I moved 5blocks from where I was. So I had to box stuff up just to unbox it about 10 minutes later. I took me 2 days to move, but I'm so glad I did, its a lot cheaper. Pictures will be posted at some point.

The New Year began while I was working, so nothing really to report there. I'm just looking forward to see what this year brings. 2008 was such a great year, I hope that 2009 can measure up to it.

Well thats all I got for now.
~D