Peter Selis: five Quick Facts You Need to Know
Peter Selis’ job photo.
A car mechanic casually held a beer in one forearm while shooting seven people – almost all non-whites – at a San Diego-area apartment complicated pool.
An eighth man was injured as he fled the scene, and a ninth victim was shot at but not struck.
The mass shooter, who was shot to death by police, was identified as Peter Selis, 49, a white man who lived in the luxury apartment elaborate. Witnesses said he smirked as he calmly shot people after being invited to join the pool party. He was a service technician at a San Diego-area Ford car dealer whose life was crumbling under financial stress and a mountain of credit card debt. The Daily Brute reports the shooter – upset about a breakup with a gf – told her he would go down “in a blaze of glory.”
#Cracking shooting suspect is Peter Selis. Born in 1967. Also learned one shooting victim has died. @CBS8
According to police, the victims included three African-American females, one white female, two African-American masculines, one Hispanic masculine, and an African-American-male who broke his arm fleeing. The woman who was shot at but not struck was identified as a Hispanic female. Police originally misidentified the Caucasian female as African-American. Police have not yet labeled the mass shooting a hate crime, however, as they say Selis was “despondent” over a relationship break-up. That’s even tho’ one witness said Selis spared a white victim.
This is an picture of white supremacist terrorist Peter Selis calmly sitting in a chair during his racial attack on Black people at a pool pic.twitter.com/mV2M4Q3d5b
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) May Two, 2017
Several of the victims were reportedly in critical condition after the April thirty shooting at the University City apartment elaborate, according to Fox five San Diego. It was later reported that one victim, a female, has died. Family members identified her as Monique Clark.
Gunman was sitting down drinking a beer before he opened fire in the pool area. #SanDiego #LaJolla San Diego pic.twitter.com/GZOA5LZsAH
Here’s what you need to know:
1. Selis Reloaded His Gun in the Pool Area While Holding a Beer & a Witness Described the Shootings as ‘Cold Blooded’
Witnesses described a “relaxed” looking gunman who clutched a beer in one arm while opening fire at numerous people with another. When he wasn’t spurting people with gunfire, he was telling to others “You can either leave or you can stay here and die,” reported the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Selis “was reportedly drinking a beer during the gunfire according to a witness who spoke to CBS News 8,” that television station reported. NBC7 interviewed a witness who said, “there’s a view of the pool area where we could see the shooter sitting there with a beer in one arm and the gun in the other. He looked pretty relaxed.”
Just that morning, Selis had taken his two daughters to breakfast and acted normal, reports The Daily Animal.
David Phillips told the San Diego Union-Tribune that the shooting erupted at his best friend’s bday party and as he was returning from the bathroom. “He said he instantaneously got on the ground. His best friend was among those shot,” the newspaper reported, quoting Phillips as telling, “It was like the Twilight Zone. I truly can’t explain what happened.”
Shahrayar Jeff told the newspaper that his “8-year-old granddaughter told him the man was sitting and drinking a beer and ‘relaxing and shooting,’” and Jeff labeled the mass shooting “very cold blooded” to the Union Tribune.
The suspect was “reloading his gun in the pool area,” a nine hundred eleven dispatcher says in the initial audio from the scene. “People down.” The suspect was originally described in the dispatch audio as a white masculine, age 40. The shooting occurred at La Jolla Crossroads Apartments.
Witness took pic of shooting scene. Says this is the shooter police took out. Courtesy: Sunil Kuma. @CBS8 pic.twitter.com/FyXDfNHExj
A witness told FOX five “he spotted three people had been shot on a sidewalk at the apartment elaborate. He ran into the clubhouse and looked out the windows. He eyed two other bloody people and one of them was crawling to the other attempting to help.”
“We looked at the pool area where the shooter was sitting there with a beer in one arm and a gun in the other,” the witness said, according to FOX Five. “The suspect looked pretty relaxed, pretty relaxed.”
The police chief, Shelley Zimmerman, said in a press conference, that, shortly after six p.m. on April 30, “our communications division received numerous calls that several people had been shot in the pool area. The helicopter arrived on scene and spotted that there were numerous victims in the pool area.”
She called the shooting spree a “spontaneous act of violence.”
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Two. The Shooter Targeted Only Non-White Victims & He Opened Fire at Police Too
Live pic from the pool area shows chairs in the pool in what was a chaotic scene of a mass shooting in #SanDiego #LaJolla San Diego pic.twitter.com/XqMmcKsjSK
The dispatch audio said that a nine hundred eleven caller heard numerous gunshots and then people commenced screaming. Initial reports said two were shot, but the injury count enhanced.
It was later exposed that the gunman had shot all non-white victims, albeit the motive is under investigation.
According to the police chief, eight people were transported to the hospital. They were: four African- American females, all shot; two African-American masculines; one Hispanic masculine; and one African-American masculine who broke his arm “fleeing the gunfire.” That account was later switched to correct the fact that one of the females was in fact Caucasian and that a nine person was shot at but not hit.
“It is with utterly sad heart that we report that one of the females has passed away,” the chief said.
**Updated Press Release on the University City Neighborhood Shooting** pic.twitter.com/dJW4Bwp3NV
— San Diego Police (@SanDiegoPD) May Two, 2017
Police, tho’, are stopping brief of labeling the mass shooting a hate crime, and they say it’s not yet clear whether Selis knew any of the victims. “We have zero information that this was racially motivated,” the chief said on May 1.
Police shot the gunman to death when he commenced firing in their direction.
“The suspect pointed the gun at our officers and three of our officers fired on the suspect and the suspect went down and the suspect is deceased,” San Diego Police chief Shelley Zimmerman said in a news conference.
The chief said a police helicopter pilot witnessed the suspect was still in the pool area and was armed with a handgun.
Race’s role in motivating San Diego killer is questioned: The question of whether race motivated Peter Selis hung… https://t.co/6wkN6XnXTw pic.twitter.com/4tpXFMgOBx
Three officers arrived, and the “suspect was reloading and shooting into the party goers for this pool party. The sergeant and two officers went to the pool area, confronted the suspect, who was still armed,” Zimmerman said. She said officers then shot and killed Selis.
Police now say the shooter and his gf had violated up a few days before the shooting spree and a despondent Selis “even called the gf on his cell phone during the bloodshed because he wished her to ‘listen in’ and be a part of the senseless violence,” reported The Fresh York Daily News.
Three. The Shooter, a Car Mechanic, Had Filed for Bankruptcy & Had a Series of Marriages
Part of Peter Selis’ bankruptcy filing.
Selis’ court history shows that he was collapsing under the weight of financial problems, including a mountain of credit card debt. However, he had no past known criminal record. The Daily Animal reports he had troubles with alcohol and gambling.
San Diego court records showcase a legal separation with minor children in the marriage of Peter Selis and his wifey, Michelle Selis, that dates to 2008. There is a two thousand thirteen wedding registry at Macy’s for Peter Selis and a woman named Patricia Martinez. Her Facebook page does not carry any mention of him, however. Peter Selis’ own Facebook page emerges to have been deleted.
Peter Selis also had a one thousand nine hundred ninety eight family court case from Idaho labeled “reciprocal support family law.”
A two thousand fifteen Chapter thirteen bankruptcy filing exists in the name of Peter Raymond Selis and lists as a joint debtor, his spouse, Patricia Martinez. The filing listed assets of $14,100 and liabilities of $108,028. See:
The current monthly income of the debtors was listed as $Four,496 and expenses at $Trio,896. The filing says Selis owed $Ten,200 in taxes and other debts owed to governmental units. Household goods and furnishings were described as “usual and customary nothing over $400.” A two thousand thirteen Ford Escape was listed that was worth $12,000.
There was also a listing of an “estimated sales tax liability of estranged wifey.” The debts included a series of credit cards and health expenses such as “collection attorney radiology medical group.”
The bankruptcy filing said Peter Selis worked as a “car mechanic” for Mossy Ford, Inc. in San Diego and had been employed there for five years. The two thousand fifteen filing said he had, at that time, a 12-year-old daughter, 16-year-old son, and 19-year-old stepson. He earned $74,676 a year in two thousand fourteen from Mossy Ford.
There was also a two thousand nine bankruptcy filing. It is only in Selis’ name and lists liabilities exceeding $400,000. That filing said Selis had a rental property and lists liens for specialized mechanics’ implements. Before San Diego, he lived in Poway, California. That filing listed him as unmarried.
Facebook posts display the killer was from a large family well entrenched in the San Diego area.
Four. Movie Captured the Sounds of Gunfire & Shooting Scene
One man captured the constant sound of gunfire on a cell phone movie as he stood at his apartment window. (Listen and observe above.)
A movie that captured some of the shooting sounds was also posted to Snapchat:
Shocking movie shows moments during a mass shooting at a University City apartment complicated.
Other movies showcased the massive law enforcement response, as well as people sitting on the side of the road on curbs.
Five. The Gunman Opened Fire at a Bday Party After Being Invited to Join & May Have Fired Dozens of Shots
NBC seven spoke to a witness who recounted how the “suspect walked into the pool area where friends were celebrating one of the tenants’ 50th bday party.”
The witness told the television station that “the tenant who was celebrating his bday walked up to the shooter, who seemed to be acting strangely. When he invited the suspect to join the celebration, the suspect lifted up his T-shirt, took out the gun and shot him in the tummy. He continued shooting people until he was out of bullets, according to the witness.”
According to ABC7, “The gunman evidently opened fire at a bday party in the pool area of a complicated in the University City area of San Diego around six p.m. Officers spotted the gunman still armed at the scene and engaged with him.”
10News reported that the woman who died was attending a bday party.
The police chief confirmed in the news conference that the shooting occurred at a “large bday party.” She said the party was occurring in the pool area of the apartment complicated.
Witnessed described hearing 30-40 shots, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, and said the shooting scene resembled a war zone.
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White people always have the most trouble witnessing things for what they are, instead they always rush to defend their “whiteness”. You people in this thread are sick, just mentally ill. This man was a monster and I’m glad he met his fate. You are a terrorist when you take the life of harmless people, and then to display no regret? what a satan. This was cold murder and all you sick people can talk about is how the article is racially driven. In fact, the article spends more time defending how troubled the man’s life was supposedly, however making Sixty-nine,000 year and having won bankruptcy isn’t very troubling compared to people who actually have nothing. This man was a selfish lump of shit, it is unfornunate that all of those people were injured and three children lost their mother, but I’m glad this scumbag was put “out of his misery”.
Another nutter goes off. Everyone looks for the excuses. Race, Trump, political BS of every stripe but the real reaction is ordinary. He was mentally ill and lost his sh:t on harmless people. They invited him to the party like good neighbors and got slaughtered for their kindliness. This sick individual brought his weapon and calmly sipped a beer while he butchered his neighbors to please his passion for blood and vengeance upon others for a life gone sour. This bitter maniac who caused unimaginable ache had no real reasons why he did it, except the delusions in his sick mind. Attempting to 2nd guess the motives as racist or political is just as evil and disingenuous as his thoughtless butchery. Such expressions only divide us further and set up future mayhem. We should instead all come together to help those who were affected instead of laying blame on our phantom issues…
I understand what you mean, but have you read comments on the internet lately? People have been spewing very venomous racism after Trump won