PITTSBURG — A 37-year-old man was in county jail after a search warrant served at a Modesto house led to an hours-long standoff that resulted in his give up and arrest Wednesday in reference to a deadly capturing final month, authorities mentioned.
Police mentioned Gregory Rossignon, 37, was arrested on suspicion of homicide for killing Abdul Raouf, 44, a retailer clerk who was shot useless on March 22 within the metropolis’s first murder of the yr.
Shortly after 9 p.m. that night time, police responded to a house after a doable gunshot report within the 100 block of Bruno Avenue. About 40 minutes after officers arrived, they heard gunshots a couple of half-mile away within the 1000 block of Energy Avenue, and discovered of a dispatcher’s name a couple of clerk shot at a retailer.
Different officers responded to the shop, and located Raouf affected by a minimum of one gunshot wound. Regardless of officers’ life-saving efforts, he was pronounced useless on the scene.
Police mentioned that Rossignon and Jessica Russo, 34, had been concerned in a fracas on Bruno shortly earlier than somebody fired a handgun a number of instances into the air. There have been no reported accidents in that capturing, and the 2 Pittsburg residents fled. Investigators later developed info that the 2 additionally fled after their involvement in a confrontation with retailer workers that led as much as the deadly capturing.
In a social-media put up Wednesday afternoon, police mentioned officers discovered the girl had had a disagreement with a unique retailer clerk, and that shortly afterward, Rossignon allegedly entered the shop and shot Raouf “for no obvious cause.”
A 3rd man concerned within the confrontation, a 43-year-old Pittsburg man later detained at a Pittsburg residence, was not later listed in custody.
Final week, Pittsburg police took Russo into custody after serving a search warrant after 2 p.m. at a house within the 2000 block of D Avenue in Antioch. She was booked into West County jail on the warrant and held on $1 million bail, in line with a county information verify.
Late Tuesday, investigators discovered that Rossignon was hiding at a Modesto house, and labored with Modesto police items to serve a search warrant at an tackle round 7 a.m. Wednesday. After studying he was inside and refusing to return out, crisis-response officers arrived on the scene and opened negotiations with him.
Hours later, shortly after 12:15 p.m., Rossignon surrendered and was taken to Pittsburg, the place he was arrested on suspicion of homicide and booked into county jail with out bail.
Anybody with info on him could name Pittsburg police Detective Jonathan Elmore at 925-252-4875 or the division tip line at 925-252-4040.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.