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In the early morning hours of June 9, groups of men started to appear on the streets of Santa Rosa.
[3] On December 5, 1920, Santa Rosa native Terry Fitts, along with San Francisco hoodlums "Spanish" Charley Valento and George Boyd, got into a shootout with a joint police squad from Santa Rosa, Sonoma County and the San Francisco Police department.
It was rumored that the lynch mob was made up of men from nearby Healdsburg, California who were friends of Sheriff Petray.
[3] On July 15, 1935, disgruntled rancher and hunting guide Al Chamberlain dressed up in his finest cowboy clothes, drove to his former ranch outside of Santa Rosa and shot John McCabe, the new owner of the property, leaving him for dead.
After shooting O'Neal, Chamberlain calmly walked down the street with a pistol in each hand, searching for Sonoma County Sheriff Harry Patteson.
On October 22, 2013, 13-year-old Andy Lopez was shot and killed by Sonoma County sheriff's deputy Erick Gelhaus in the Moorland neighborhood of unincorporated Santa Rosa.
Gelhaus mistook the airsoft gun for a real rifle, and demanded that Lopez drop the weapon.
"[5][6] They amended their lawsuit in January 2014, claiming that the Sheriff's office had long known that Gelhaus had a "propensity ... to recklessly draw his firearm and to use excessive force".
The deputy's attorney argued that Gelhaus "absolutely believed" that the gun was real and that his life was in danger.