
Shareef Allman was 47 years old described as Sunny and kind, his tattooed boxer’s biceps as big as his personality, Allman would help people when they had trouble at work, friends said Wednesday. He was the one who stopped gang fights. And he was the one on his cable show “Real 2 Real” interviewing Jessie Jackson about hope and local street walkers about salvation. who along with working at the cement plant, Allman also was a contributing producer at the San Jose public access TV channel CreaTV and an author who wrote a book, “Amazing Grace,” that addressed domestic violence issues.
Video posted on YouTube showed Allman interviewing the Rev. Jesse Jackson outside a memorial for the late musician Walter Hawkins for a piece for CreaTV. In the video, Allman talked with Jackson about the positive and transformative messages of gospel music. The president of the San Jose/Silicon Valley chapter of the NAACP said Allman “was a nice man, a brilliant man, a proud man, a man who spoke of black pride.”
Pastor Jethroe Moore II added that Allman was an evangelist, who was known throughout churches in the Bay Area, and was doing everything he could to change the perception of a positive role model in the black community, and encouraging an emphasis on family and strong father figures.
Rose Douglas, a neighbor who has known him for 12-13 years, said she was aware he was having problems at his job. One of the major issues Allman had at work, Douglas said, was a recently move from the day shift to the night shift. Douglas said the shift change interfered with Allman's plans to spend more time with his daughter.
“There is no logical way to explain what has happened today from what we know of him. Our community is devastated and hurt,” Moore said of Allman, who he has known for 15 years.Co-workers and acquaintances of Allman also said that he appeared to be happy up until he opened fire at the plant meeting.
At a news conference, the Laurie Smith the Sheriff of Santa Clara County said that Allman was disgruntled at his employer, but she did not know exactly what the issue was.
“During the press conference, Sheriff Laurie Smith named a host of law enforcement agencies involved in the manhunt, including the FBI, US Marshals, Homeland Security, and San Jose, Santa Clara, Campbell, and Sunnyvale police departments.”
-I personally saw Homeland Security vehicles on Stevens creek Rd and De anza around 11am -
(FBI, Homeland Security where on seen fast.)
She said they recovered a shotgun, handgun and two assault rifles, some of them inside Allman's abandoned vehicle. Behind the Arco station by HP, But she still believes he is armed.
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The portrait of the 47-year-old quarry worker and single dad that emerged Thursday -- a day after he gunned down three co-workers and wounded seven other people -- was not that of a spiritual, peace-loving man who snapped. It was one of a coldblooded killer who sheriff's officials said kept a handgun at home hidden in the cutout pages of a Bible. Sheriff's officials revealed Thursday that Allman used a rope and piece of plywood to jam shut a door and trap about a dozen co-workers in a trailer at a Cuperitno quarry during a predawn meeting Wednesday. Then he began shooting. While on the run a little more than an hour later, Allman made a walkie-talkie call back to the terrified survivors. His message: He was coming back to finish them off, sheriff's officials told this newspaper. He never returned. Wednesday's massive hunt for Allman moved about five miles away to a neighborhood across the street from a Hewlett-Packard campus. A surveillance video released Thursday by the Sheriff's Office shows Allman walking past a liquor store with a rifle slung over his shoulder. Soon after, sheriff's officials believe he placed assault rifles in two hiding places along Homestead Road -- and left a shotgun in the trunk of his 1999 Mercury. Sheriff's officials said Thursday they believed he could have been preparing for a final shootout. Carrying a bulging bag of ammo, he next turned up in the HP parking lot, where he shot a 60-year-old woman in a botched carjacking. Then he disappeared. As helicopters searched overhead and schools locked their doors, officers picked through the neighborhood with German shepherds and bloodhounds, clued to Allman's scent through his abandoned car. Deputies said they were not sure how Allman had evaded them all night. He could have hidden in a home or a garage, but there's no evidence he knew anyone there. Deputies finally confronted Allman about 7:30
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