Two people were shot and killed at a Memorial Day gathering in San Diego.
A San Diego Police officer heard gunfire just before 11 p.m. near 53rd and Groveland in Valencia Park. The community is east of Interstate 805 and south of State Route 94.
Family and friends were hanging out on a back patio after watching a sporting event when two men walked up to the group and started shooting, police said.
When the officer arrived, he found two men with gunshot wounds to their upper torso area. One was pronounced dead at the scene. The second was taken to Mercy Hospital where he later died.
A man in his 30's was driven to Paradise Valley Hospital by a family member. He had suffered a gunshot to the shoulder in the same shooting. Officials say he is expected to survive.
San Diego Police homicide investigators say they have a lot of evidence to look through including shell casings.
Detectives say they don't have much information on the two shooters or if they knew anyone in the group. They were last seen running eastbound on Groveland Drive, police said.
Anyone with information can call the San Diego Police Department’s Homicide Unit or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
A shark sighting was reported Monday just off the coast of Oceanside Harbor Beach, Oceanside Lifeguards said.
Someone in a boat passed by a 6-foot shark and reported it to lifeguards who sent out their own boats to search for any signs of it.
They also searched from a helicopter above.
From Santa Barbara down to San Diego and through to Baja Mexico, more than a dozen great white sharks have been spotted recently, some even 50 feet from the shore in Huntington Beach.
Oceanside lifeguards say sightings are rare along our coastline. Even so, they normally don’t alert the local media or the public.
However, lifeguards in Huntington Beach recently put up warning signs for beachgoers due to sightings of more than a dozen young Great White Sharks feeding in the area.
The Oceanside shark sighting didn't stop hundreds of surfers from venturing out into the coastal waters.
Most of the people NBC 7 spoke with didn't seem too phased.
"If there was a shark approaching surfers or having some sort of curiosity of swimmers then that would concern me,” said surfer Dee Toombs. “Seeing sharks in the water doesn't concern me. They're out there."
Mike Price, the assistant curator of fishes at SeaWorld San Diego, said those sharks are not looking for people, but rather they're chasing sting rays and small fish.
“It's exactly where they're supposed to be, it's where they want to be, it's where all their food sources are,” Price said.
Lifeguards didn't specify whether the Oceanside shark sightiing was a great white shark. They say there just isn't enough information to know for sure.
A young girl who was injured after the bounce house she was in was sent flying by a waterspout at Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida, was released from the hospital Tuesday.
"I thought I was gonna die," Shamoya Ferguson said.
Ferguson spent the night at Broward Health Medical Center under observation after the Memorial Day incident that left the 6-year-old and two other children injured.
"I'm stressed, I'm really stressed, I never expected something like this, I was so shocked," mother Tameka Liscombe said at the hospital Tuesday. "When I went home last night I can't sleep, all night, I wake up with nightmares."
The frightening incident, which was caught on video, showed the bounce house spinning as it lifted off the ground and dropped the children onto the sand below.
"I was in the bounce house, then I fell," Ferguson said, adding it felt like she was in "a tornado.'
Shadaja Bryant, 5, was left with a broken arm after the violent ride. Shamoya's 11-year-old step-brother, AJ, was also injured.
Fort Lauderdale City Manager Lee Feldman issued a statement Tuesday calling the incident a "freak act of nature" that was unpredictable.
"The change in weather was sudden and severe. An intense water spout came ashore rapidly and without warning bringing forceful winds that meteorologists have estimated were between 65 and 85 miles per hour," Feldman said. "Its powerful unpredictable path knocked down street lights and destroyed a cement basketball support structure."
Feldman said the city has put the bounce house vendor, All Star Events, on notice of their responsibility as they investigate the incident.
"It's just an accident, things happen, the greatest thing is that she's here," father Omar Ferguson said.
An off-duty police officer and his mother have been charged with murder in connection with a deadly double shooting in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Waldorf, Maryland, that authorities say stemmed from a custody dispute involving the officer's children. The victims were the children's mother and her new husband.
Richard Conway, 26, a Prince George's County police officer, was arrested at his mother's home Monday night. He has been charged with murder of 25-year-old Robert Michael Mange and the shooting of Mange's 24-year-old wife, Prince George's County Police Chief Mark Magaw said in a statement Tuesday.
Conway is the second person charged in the case. Last week, authorities charged his mother, 51-year-old Caroline Conway, with the murder of Mange, and the attempted murder of Mange's wife. The wife had a prior relationship with Richard Conway.
The Charles County Sheriff's Office says that although it was Caroline Conway who fired the weapon, her son participated in the crime before and after the shootings. Investigators say the motive appears to be an ongoing child custody dispute between Richard Conway and the female victim.
Caroline Conway allegedly got into the couple's car and shot Mange, according to the Charles County Sheriff's Office. Her son took her there but stayed in the car with his children, News4's Chris Gordon reported.
"Miss Conway produced a handgun and shot the male victim, Mr. Mange," Charles County Sheriff's Office Capt. Stephen Slavas said. "The female victim tried to flee the vehicle. As a result, Miss Conway, the shooter, shot the female victim in the back."
Both victims were taken to an area hospital, where Mange died. The woman is expected to survive, authorities said.
After the shooting, investigators found ammunition consistent with a .40 caliber handgun, the same weapon issued to Prince George's County Police officers.
The gun used in the shooting has not been recovered. Detectives are looking into the possibility that Conway's service weapon was used in the crime.
The charging document against Officer Conway says his mother told a witness she shot the mother of Conway's children with his service weapon and that he sent text messages to Mange's wife as if nothing had happened though he knew she was shot.
Richard Conway has been with the Prince George's County Police Department for three years. He has been suspended without pay, Magaw said.
A second sea lion treated in San Diego after being sickened in the oil spill near Santa Barbara has died.
The sea lion arrived with three others Sunday evening from the site of the oil spill to be treated by SeaWorld San Diego at their Oiled Wildlife Care Center. The animal was hurt at the Refugio State Beach near Santa Barbara, where a broken oil pipe spilled about 105,000 gallons of oil into the ocean.
The center has 10 sea lions and five elephant seals from the spill area in their care. The conditions of the animals remain guarded as the center assesses their conditions.
Oil can be damaging to sea lions in that it's irritating to their skin, restricts their ability to thermal regulate and can be toxic if ingested, veterinarians said.
SeaWorld San Diego has deployed three specialists to the site of the spill to help with animal rescue and relief efforts. Assistant curator Mike Price left Monday to help with the spill.
Earlier this week, a team from the Oiled Wildlife Care Network set up at SeaWorld San Diego and washed and treated oil-soaked birds.
A former Los Angeles Police Department officer charged in the shooting death of a man in California was arrested by authorities in northern Mexico, the FBI confirmed Tuesday night.
Henry Solis, 27, was wanted in connection with the March 13 shooting death of 23-year-old Salome Rodriguez Jr., in Pomona. Solis' father, Victor, was arrested in late March for allegedly lying to the FBI after helping his son flee to Mexico.
Solis was deported to the U.S. on Tuesday night and will be held in El Paso, the FBI said in a statement.
Solis is also charged in a federal criminal complaint with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, the FBI said.
Additional details were expected Wednesday.
Rodriguez's mother, Lidia Rodriguez, said she heard of the arrest from news reports.
"I felt blessed, like God is hearing us," Rodriguez said. "The only thing we kept on doing is praying and asking people on Facebook, friends and family, to keep on praying."
"I want him (Solis) to see who we are, who junior's family is," she added.
Rodriguez's family and friends gathered in solidarity Tuesday night outside the night club where he was gunned down.
Details were sketchy and sources said that law enforcement was continuing to investigate in the Juarez area where Solis was arrested. Others were being looked at in connection with helping Solis avoid the law.
Solis was off-duty at the time of the shooting. A vehicle wanted in connection with the crime was found in a Pomona alley, several blocks from where Rodriguez Jr. was gunned down after what authorities described as a fistfight.
Solis’ father was arrested in Lancaster, California, and charged with making a false statement to law enforcement. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Solis was fired from the LAPD after he was initially charged with murder.
Tena Ezzeddine contributed to this report.
A very specific bomb threat was phoned into West Hills High School in Santee Tuesday by a person claiming to be a victim of bullying, prompting a lengthy lockdown on campus and a massive response from law enforcement.
The San Diego County Sheriff's Department confirmed an unknown suspect called a threat into the school around 9:15 a.m. saying he or she was going to do something violent to that particular school.
Sheriff's department spokesperson Jan Caldwell said the person claimed there were four backpacks placed on campus that were going to detonate. The caller, who sounded like a young man, said he was sick of being bullied, Caldwell said.
Immediately, the high school was placed on lockdown while deputies and officers from multiple different agencies conducted an extensive search for any suspicious devices or bags in the area.
By 11:10 a.m., officials confirmed suspicious backpacks and boxes had been found at four different locations on campus: the library, a science building, the swimming pool area and the entrance's flag circle.
The objects were still being inspected as of 11:30 a.m. By 1 p.m. school district officials confirmed the packages that were investigated ultimately posed no threat.
The Grossmont Unified High School District (GUHSD) communications office shared some details of the lockdown via Twitter throughout the morning. At 9:30 a.m., the office tweeted that law enforcement was investigating the threat.
At 10:15 a.m., GUHSD communications tweeted: "Normal safety protocols are in place at West Hills High School. Students are safe. Thx for patience while law enforcement investigates."
The communications office also confirmed, in a tweet, that students were "safe in locked classrooms," and had not been evacuated to a nearby church as another news outlet reported.
At 11:25 a.m., GUHSD communications posted another update to Twitter thanking parents and students for their patience.
"Lockdown continues as normal safety protocols are conducted at West Hills High School. Students are safe in classrooms," the message read.
Meanwhile, dozens upon dozens of law enforcement officers descended on the school, including buses from the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and officials in bomb squad gear.
Between 20 to 30 school buses were parked along Mast Boulevard, lining the entrance to the school as officials investigated.
At 10:35 a.m., law enforcement could be seen scouring the bleachers at the school's football field and surrounding areas with K-9s.
Minutes later, officials in bomb squad gear could be seen searching the school's swimming pool area, including bathrooms. A K-9 also swam in the pool as part of the search.
Shoes and gym bags, presumably belonging to students, were left behind in the pool area amid the lockdown. Officials began inspecting those bags.
Meanwhile, in another area of the campus a group of law enforcement officials gathered around an unmarked vehicle studying what appeared to be a map of the campus.
West Hills High School is located at 8756 Mast Blvd. in the east San Diego community of Santee. According to the school's website, 11th grade English State Testing was scheduled for Tuesday. School began at 7:15 a.m.
The sheriff's department said no other schools were mentioned in the phone threat.
At noon, the GUHSD communications office said via Twitter that dismissal for students with a 12:37 p.m. release time would be delayed.
"An All-Call message will update parents as details become available. Thx for patience," the tweet continued.
By 12:25 p.m., the communications office confirmed West Hills High School had been "downgraded to secure campus." The GUHSD Twitter feed said, again, that all students were safe.
By 1 p.m., many students were being released from school.
GUHSD communications officials said parents could pick up students with the 12:37 p.m. release time at Mast Boulevard and Medina Drive. The flag circle at the front entrance of the school remained closed. Meanwhile, classes resumed for students with a 7th period schedule.
GUHSD communications confirmed that bomb squad officials had checked all suspicious packages on campus and "no credible threat was found."
The investigation is ongoing, with detectives trying to trace the identity of the caller. The sheriff's department said that caller will face serious consequences for making the threat.
No one was injured in Tuesday's ordeal at the school.
A former elementary school teacher accused of molesting five boys appeared Tuesday in a South County Courtroom.
John Kinloch, 41, taught in South County Schools for 14 years until his arrest in November 2012 as part of a national child pornography bust.
Federal officials claim Kinloch posed as a 13-year-old girl to befriend boys ages 12 to 16 through a website.
After his arrest, new charges were filed against him including accusations of lewd acts with students and non-students age 8 to 15.
At a pretrial hearing in September 2013, a young man testified he was molested by Kinloch after school in the classroom of a Chula Vista charter school.
The alleged victim, identified in court as “John Doe 1”, met the defendant when he was a student in Kinloch’s 2nd grade class at Feaster Charter School on Flower Street.
Kinloch faces an additional 12 counts of lewd acts with a child under the age of 18 involving a second alleged victim. The allegations involve situations that happened between August and December of 2012, investigators said. The alleged victim was under the age of 13 and not a student.
He also faces six additional lewd act charges involving a third victim who was 14 or 15 between 1996 and 1998 when he alleges inappropriate contact. The incident allegedly occurred when Kinloch was 24 or 25 and not working as a teacher.
Kinloch has pleaded not guilty and is currently on unpaid leave from the Chula Vista Elementary School District.
If convicted on all charges, he faces between 450 years to life in prison.
Kinloch was teaching first grade at Wolf Canyon Elementary School at the time of his arrest. He had passed background checks designed to protect students, according to district officials.
At least four vehicles were involved in a crash after a box truck rolled over on Interstate 15 Tuesday evening, the California Highway Patrol said.
The rollover stopped on the right shoulder of the I-15 north at Camino del Norte just before 5 p.m., blocking one lane of traffic.
The CHP issued a Sig Alert, but about 40 minutes later, most of the crash had been cleared and all lanes were reopened.
It's unclear if anyone was injured.
A plan to cross the border into the U.S. was quickly halted by a cement barrier just 15 yards into the country, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Early Saturday morning, CBP officers said they saw a group of people climb over a fence just west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry in Mexico. After running east along Interstate 5, the suspects piled into a Dodge Caravan with California license plates parked south of the border in Mexico.
The driver sped off northbound in the southbound lanes of I-5, crossing into the U.S., the CBP said. But just 15 yards in, the van lost control and crashed into a cement barrier on the side of the freeway.
Some inside tried to run away, but nine men were ultimately taken into CBP custody. Only the driver was able to escape back into Mexico, according to officials.
Five of the suspects were taken to the hospital, but all have been released to the CBP. The nine men were Mexican citizens with no legal documents to enter the U.S., and everyone will be returned to Mexico, the CBP said.
The arrests were part of a busy holiday weekend for border officers. Between Friday and Monday, they apprehended another 25 fugitives wanted for outstanding felony warrants and seized more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana, 257 pounds of methamphetamine, 170 pounds of cocaine and 18 pounds of heroin, according to the CBP.
A gas leak briefly evacuated a construction site in a commercial area of Poway, the Poway Fire Department said.
The leak happened around 10:45 a.m. on Kirkham Way and Paine Street when a blackhoe hit a gas line. By 12:13 p.m. the leak had been capped and firefighters were clearing the scene.
The line was broken and blowing, fire officials said.
The construction site was evacuated as a precaution.
Nearby buildings were advised to shelter in place.
SDG&E crews responded.
A large, popular restaurant in the bustling North Park community has shuttered its doors after just a little over three years in business.
Wang's North Park – an Asian-Fusion and traditional Chinese restaurant located at 3029 University Ave. – confirmed its sudden closure on the eatery’s Facebook page last week by posting this message for patrons:
To All our Guests: We are very sad to let you know that Wang’s North Park has closed for business. Thank you all very much for the support you’ve shown us over the past years. We really appreciate it and will miss the good times together.
Sincerely,
The Staff and Management of Wang’s North Park
San Diego Eater confirms the restaurant has shut for good and reports that the president of Venture Commercial is handling the sale of the massive venue, the liquor license and all of the fixtures, furniture and equipment on site.
“They’re seeking a new restaurant/bar tenant with unique entertainment theme,” San Diego Eater reports.
Wang’s opened in late January 2012 at the 40,000-square-foot historic building on University Avenue that originally began as a JCPenney department store in 1942 that operated there for decades. The building went on to house other retail stores but then sat vacant for years, from 2008 until Wang’s took over.
In January 2012, Eliana Barreiros, Project Manager of the North Park Redevelopment Agency, told San Diego Uptown News that the Wang’s “rehabilitation project” cost approximately $1,775,000, including a $500,000 forgivable loan from the Agency.
At the time, co-owner Tom Eads told San Diego Uptown News the owners had signed a 15-year lease and were “in this for [the] long haul.”
He said the owners were thrilled to be taking over a building with so much history and said the biggest challenge had been turning the enormous space into a more intimate dining setting.
When the restaurant first launched, it hired more than 80 employees, many of them North Park
residents.
NBC 7 has reached out to Wang’s for comment on the closure. Check back for updates.
The group behind a provocative contest for cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that led to a deadly shooting in Texas earlier this month has submitted the winning image to run as an advertisement on Washington, D.C., public transportation.
The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), a conservative group behind some controversial ad campaigns, wants to plaster the image of the Prophet Muhammad on the side of Metrobuses and in train stations.
Pamela Geller, founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, submitted the the winning cartoon from the “Draw Muhammad” event to the Washington, D.C., Transit Authority.
"There is nothing about this cartoon that incites violence. It is within the established American tradition of satire. If America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history,” Geller said.
Metro riders News4 spoke with had mixed opinions about the idea.
"I know it is a First Amendment issue, but I also know pictures of the Prophet Muhammad are considered disrespectful to Muslims,” one rider said.
"The First Amendment is absolute,” another said.
"We are aware that an ad has been submitted,” Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said in a statement. “It is going through a review process and has not yet been approved for our system."
The American Freedom Defense Initiative has run controversial ads on subways and buses in other cities across the country as well — among them Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. In 2012, they were able to get another poster deemed offensive to Muslims on D.C.’s Metro.
Geller and the group were in the news recently, when the nation's largest mass transit system voted to ban all political ads on New York City subways and buses, following the group's legal battle to display "Hamas Killing Jews" ads on buses.
The AFDI is listed as an anti-Muslim hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
With so much public attention focused on building a new stadium right now, Balboa Park activists are wondering “Where’s the love?” for that civic asset -- as well as for the Chargers.
The city is falling farther and farther behind on repairs and upgrades needed throughout the century-old park.
There are plans to fold those into a "mega-bond issue" next year.
But there's concern that stadium project financing might complicate that scenario.
"A couple of these buildings have been rebuilt in the 70s and the 80s,” said Kevin Swanson, an organizer of the grassroots San Diego 2015 centennial movement. “And those have new structures but they were built to the old standards. The other buildings? They're falling apart inside."
They’re falling apart outside as well -- throughout the century-old enclave known as San Diego’s "Crown Jewel".
Earlier this month, a 300-pound section of molding broke off a building on The Prado – fortunately, when no visitors were walking underneath.
“But our city council and our mayor do nothing," said David Lundin, a Hillcrest attorney who chairs the Balboa Park Historical Assn. “They just assume it's going to take care of itself.”
In recent emails to news media outlets and hundreds of association members, Lundin has characterized the situation as “condemnation by aggressive neglect."
In February, a water main break in the Spanish Art Village forced cancellation of that night's performance of "Murder for Two" at the Old Globe Theater.
Many facades on scores of buildings around the 1,200-acre park are stained with mold from dry rot behind them, and countless electrical systems need rewiring or replacement.
Nonprofit park preservation groups are accelerating private funding campaigns, saying they can’t wait until the city makes progress toward reducing the $300 million infrastructure deficit estimated by city auditors.
"If Balboa Park was a large condominium project, the attorney general would have shut it down,” Lundin told NBC 7 in an interview Tuesday, “because there are no reserves for maintenance, no reserves for new roofs, no reserves for painting the exteriors, no reserves for what a large condo project is compelled to do by law.”
A widespread request for responses from those officials’ media relations staffs went unanswered Tuesday.
Meantime, park activists also are calling for hearings on a city audit of the now-defunct civic committee that spent nearly $3 million on park centennial plans that didn't pan out.
Volunteers and a professional rescue team from SeaWorld came to the aid of a sea lion that appeared Saturday on a dock in Channel Islands Harbor with the handle of a bladed weapon protruding from his body.
"This animal would have died because of this impalement," said Keith Yip, curator of mammals at SeaWorld San Diego and leader of its rescue team.
The male sea lion, estimated to weigh 600 pounds or more, had been overnighting on an empty dock, then disappearing during the day. Concerned boaters and live-aboards in the harbor dubbed him Bubba and worried that he might not survive until rescuers could get him help.
Rescuers arrived early Tuesday morning, shortly after Bubba had disappeared again into the water, and they awaited his returned. One search boat, Captain Jax, patrolled the harbor the entire day without a sighting until just before 5:30 p.m., when Heidi Dinkler checked back at the spot near the end of dock B where the sea lion had been overnighting and found him swimming nearby. Dinkler, a retired Kern County Fire Battalion Chief, radio'd the second rescue boat.
"He's back!" Dinkler said in lowered voice as not to startle the animal. Within minutes the sea lion perched itself atop the end of the dock.
NBC4 was riding with Dinkler at the time of the sighting, and remained in the Captain Jax for the duration of the mission, affording an up-close view of the rescue.
On the dock, the sea lion was darted twice with a tranquilizer, then dove into the water and resisted the efforts of rescuers to capture him for nearly two frustrating hours. With the effect of the tranquilizer starting to wear off, a third dart was fired and stuck, but still the sea lion was able to back out of a net every time it was placed over his head.
Team members were beginning to worry that they would have to postpone the effort on account of darkness when he was finally netted using an extra-long net provided by the Coast Guard. Harbor Patrol also assisted in spotting and herding the sea lion.
After Bubba was brought to shore, Yip and veterinarian Sam Dover, DVM, discovered the blade was so deeply embedded it had to be cut out with a scalpel.
"It angers me," said Yip as he held up the weapon. "You know, it's not right. There's no animal that deserves this kind of treatment."
"Clearly it was done intentionally," said Dover, founder of the Channel Islands Marine Wildlife Institute, which organized the rescue effort.
The blade was taken as evidence for follow up investigation. Harming a sea lion is a federal offense under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, enforced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA's office of investigation will attempt to determine how the sea lion was wounded, Martina Sagapolu, deputy special agent in charge, said.
Who stabbed the sea lion remains unknown. NOAA is encouraging anyone with information to call its hotline number, 800-853-1964.
Boaters were stunned and angry over the wound that was inflicted.
"I've seen him about three days ago, it was the first time it was here," said Kenny Knoll, who lives aboard a boat near the dock where Bubba appeared.
"But this was vicious, this was," Tony Raimondo said. "I think someone must have gashed the thing because when you look at that gash, it was continuous -- it didn't happen by accident."
Sometimes loud and aggressive -- even known to steal fish from a catch -- sea lions are not always popular in harbors.
Just last month, sport fisherman Dan Carlin was holding a fish for a photo while motoring back to dock in San Diego's Mission Bay when a sea lion leapt to snatch it from his grasp.
The sea lion bit Carlin's hand and pulled him down some 20 feet underwater before he broke free and escaped, he told interviewers.
In Channel Islands Harbor on New Year's Day, a fisherman who had been cutting bait on a dock was bitten in the leg by a sea lion and sent into the water. The same sea lion continued to loiter near the dock for another month and at one point he struck it with a pole to ward it off, the fisherman said. The fisherman identified himself as Jerry and his account of the January incident was corroborated by others in the harbor.
That sea lion had different coloration from the wounded one that was rescued Tuesday, Jerry said, and he expressed doubt they are the same animal.
From his dinghy, Knoll was able to follow the rescue until its conclusion. After Bubba was placed in a safety cage for transport to San Diego, Knoll was able to get a close look.
"Amazing!" he exclaimed, visibly relieved that the days of suspense were over.
Dover and Yip expressed confidence that after treatment, the sea lion will be able to return to the ocean.
Yip returned to SeaWorld with Bubba. Dover said planned to return to Santa Barbara to resume working with mammals oiled by last week's spill. Its draw on resources was a factor that kept volunteers from getting to the sea lion sooner, he said.
D.C. police are looking for a man who knocked a 63-year-old man out with one punch in an apparent robbery May 17 in Southeast.
About 5:45 p.m. that Sunday, a man in a red shirt exchanged words with the victim in the 2900 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE.
WARNING: Some may find the surveillance video below disturbing.
Surveillance video from nearby Petey Greene Community Center shows the man in a red shirt punch the 63-year-old victim, dropping him to the ground. He stepped away from the motionless victim before returning, bending over him, and apparently going through his pockets and taking a dollar.
Several other people seen in the video did nothing to intervene or assist the victim.
Anyone with information about the case should call police at 202-727-9099 or by texting the tip to 50411.
