Eviction battle leads to sword attack, fatal shooting in California

VALLEJO, Calif. — Two people were arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of a fellow squatter who was shot and killed by a California property owner, authorities said. The property owner was impaled by a sword during the confrontation. A witness told the newspaper that the property owner, identified as Curt Lind, 80, came to his mobile home covered in blood. “He came banging on my door with a sword sticking through him,” Patrick McMillan, a tenant who lives in a mobile home on the property, told the Chronicle. McMillan told the newspaper that Lind was his landlord and best friend.

The confrontation apparently was the result of an eviction battle that had recently intensified, the newspaper reported. For years, Lind had been attempting to evict a group of people whom his family claimed were not paying the rent, KTVU reported. Lind had bought the property, placing 20-foot trailers and shipping containers on the land so he could rent them to people who were unable to afford the cost of housing in Vallejo, McMillan told the Chronicle. Lind also lived on the property.

Someone forgot the basic rule: never bring a knife to a gun fight!

At first I thought why is there a battle, just file the papers and evict.

Then I realized I was reading about California where I hear it’s next to impossible to get the baddies out.

Note to self: NEVER invest in Cali.

Note to self #2: sell before I hit 80.

The Police and Sheriff don't respond to landlord complaints or emergency calls in the Los Angeles California area.