photo credit: Sun Terrace Ken
The following is from the Concord Police Department:
Around 5:20 p.m. tonight, Concord Police officers responded to a report of a physical altercation involving several adults in the front parking lot of Sun Terrace Elementary School, located at 2448 Floyd Lane. Upon arrival, officers located an adult male unresponsive on the ground. Officers, along with community members, rendered medical aid until paramedics arrived. The male was transported to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased.
The Concord Police Department Major Crimes Unit responded and is actively investigating the incident, working in partnership with staff from the Mt. Diablo Unified School District. The individuals present during the altercation have been identified, interviewed, and are cooperating with the investigation. CPD is not currently seeking any outstanding suspects and there is no known threat to the public. CPD is investigating all facts and circumstances related to the incident, to include what may have contributed to the man’s death.
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Detective Raul Alvarado at (925) 603-5820.
If CPD is not currently seeking any outstanding suspects, then apparently all parties involved have been identified. So what happened?
I hate how they never release details any longer. There should be a full release and details published for the citizens safety.
How do the details create ‘citizen safety’?
What you really are looking for is basically gossip.
There was an altercation and a life was lost. What more do you need to know?
More obviously and it has nothing to do with gossip and everything to do with public safety which is something you very obviously could care less about! Don’t care if you think differently or what you think at all just glad you aren’t my neighbor enabling crime!
How does what you recommend improve citizen safety?
Responces that are basically childish responses and idiotic assumptions don’t count.
Facts aren’t gossip!!
That makes zero sense.
To you!
Check out that thing called a dictionary. In it you will find the definition of the word gossip.
p.s. I didn’t write and create dictionaries.
Sounds like an unfortunate cardiac arrest during an altercation.
Since our Local Police Department has “gone dark” with information, we will probably never know what happened.
This is why Concord needs a public police review board to oversee the police department.
When any taxpayer-funded entity goes secret, the public must have a way to know how their tax dollars are being spent.
I would prefer that all publicly funded agencies be open to the public.
When one goes dark, that’s when I no longer trust them.
Yes, we do need some public oversight of the Concord Police Department. It’s been almost a year and we still don’t know anything about the shooting that took place in the lobby of the police station which resulted in a city employee being shot.
In other words, you recommend non police members of the public overseeing how the
police do their job. Just like Oakland?
Oh, so you’re one of those who believes the police should continue to investigate themselves with the express purpose of protecting themselves. If the Concord Police Department were an open and honest agency then public oversight wouldn’t be necessary. Our locally elected city council doesn’t seem to have any interest in the oversight of the department.
They need oversight? Are you an authority in police science? I believe in letting our local police do their jobs, and not hindering them by being a member of the anti law enforcement defund the police bunch of loonies.
If there’s a problem, that can be addressed. I’m not for assuming the police are always a problem and that they need to be constantly watched.
Yes, the Concord Police Department is in desperate need of oversight. The department is severely lacking in oversight, transparency, supervision, and training. The problem is that problems aren’t addressed in the CPD, problems have been allowed to fester and continue for the last 6 years. I never said anything about defunding the police, but I will say that CPD does take up too much of the city budget. Yeah, since you mentioned “loons,” those Concord back-the-blue at all costs bootlicker loons are a huge problem in this city and heavily contribute to the problematic culture that currently exists within CPD. I find it interesting that you find oversight and transparency of a local government agency and demanding greater supervision and training within the department to be such a problem. It really sounds like you don’t care at all about how CPD operates and behaves, as long as the perception “of letting our local police do their jobs” propaganda is pushed out to the public.
What are doing wasting your time here since you are such an expert on how the department is dysfunctional and how should really be run? Why don’t get a job with the department, rise through the ranks, and become the chief? That way you make it what you think it should be.
In reality, I just see another armchair self anointed expert who knows much much less than they think they know.
If the Concord City Council or the Chief of Police was providing honest transparency and trustworthy public oversight of CPD, then there’d be no need for a Public Police Review Board, but citizens aren’t being provided with transparency and oversight.
The problem with Citizen Review Boards is that they devolve into a group of people who think they know how a police department should be run, while in reality they don’t.
Again, if CPD were an honest, open, and transparent agency, and the Concord City Council actually performed public oversight of the department, then a CRB for CPD wouldn’t be necessary.
The Concord Police annual budget is posted and made public each year.
That’s what happens when grown adults fight, someone will lose,
and sometimes it can be a life. Grow up and conduct yourselves
as responsible adults. If you want to fight, step into a boxing ring.
Two yn’s on an old man, he didn’t want to fight. They attacked him for because their kid ran into the parking lot and almost got hit.
Yesterday at Sun Terrace Elementary School, a tragic and unacceptable act of violence took place. An older man confronted a child who had been bullying his child—using only his words—and was then attacked by others. That man has now lost his life.
This is beyond heartbreaking. No one deserves to be assaulted, especially for trying to stand up for their child in a non-violent way. The individuals who chose violence must be held accountable.
Where was the supervision? Where were the adults responsible for keeping children and families safe during after-school hours?
This is not just an isolated incident—it’s a failure on multiple levels. Violence like this puts every child at risk and cannot be ignored.
My thoughts are with the victim and his family. Justice must be served.
Fight in front of kids in front of the kids at school pickup and now a grandfather is senselessly dead, what a shame.
Let me guess
Why guess? Just tell us what and who you’re thinking this was.
Nope…… not this time
Nope……
No names have been released except for the victim.
Sixty-two-year-old Sione Filimoehala of Concord.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-sione-tekina-filimoehala
This article from KRON-4 actually says that Sione Filimoehala died from injuies suffered during the fight. This was the first news report that I’ve seen that said his death was a result of injuries, and not a medical emergency.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/fight-outside-concord-elementary-school-leaves-1-dead/
No need