STOCKTON, CA - Stockton Police responded to 11 violent crimes Friday night and into early Saturday morning.
The criminal activity included an attempted kidnapping on Madison and Oak Streets, an armed robbery with sexual battery on Scotts Creek and Trinity Parkway and a homicide at the El Altenos Bar on Main Street.
"I heard pop-pop-pop-pop," Debora Ellison said. "A lot of gunfire."
Ellison said Main Street sounded like it was at war at 2 a.m.
"It had to be 100 shots," Ellison said. "Everybody in the house rushed to the back, got together and huddled until it stopped."
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Ellison said she's petitioned Stockton's City Council numerous times to get bars and liquor stores that attract violence out of her Park District neighborhood.
"I don't feel safe anymore," Ellison said. "My car and house have been broken into. I have a teenage son and I beg him to come straight home from school."
In North Stockton, a single woman who recently moved into a rental home said two armed men entered in through her open garage while her landlord made repairs.
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"They made my landlord lay down and the other man put a gun to my temple," said the victim.
She didn't want News 10 to reveal her identity or location in fear of retaliation.
"I was praying he wasn't going to kill me," the victim continued. "He put a 9mm up to my temple and put a round in it."
The victim said the two men went through her home and took purses and the jewerly off of her hands and feet. She said police responded quickly, but they didn't take fingerprints and the two men ran barefoot in opposite directions before police arrived.
News 10 requested an interview with Stockton Mayor Ann Johnston, but City Hall said she was unable to be reached.
Last week, Johnston told News 10 the recent surge in violence could be caused by a number of factors, including unemployment and foreclosures.
University of the Pacific professor, Dr. Alan Ray, organized April's "Stockton is Magificent" event to drum up support for the city after Forbes Magazine named it "America's Most Miserable."
"I think our city leaders have a genuine interest in making this city better," Ray said. "I think it takes a village. I don't think there's enough people who volunteer to get this city going."
Ray said he'd like to see better educational programs in schools and more church and organizational involvement with Stockton's youth.
Ellison, on the other hand, would like more police back on the streets.
"While they're figuring out their top priority, the budget, people are being killed," Ellison said. "People are being shot."
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