They don’t call it Berserkly for nothing. Because Berkley, California is where Crazy Davey David Depape called home until he was jailed for violent assault and attempted murder in the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker Pelosi was the alleged target of the attack but it happens she was in D.C. with her multi-person armed guard. Eighty-two-year-old Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, was not so lucky. He became a victim of the vicious attack.
Paul Pelosi survived the bludgeoning and is expected to
recover from life-threatening wounds, a cracked skull among other injuries. According to Pelosi family members, Depape
brought a hammer to the Pelosi house, used it to smash windows and gain
entrance. There he confronted Paul Pelosi and demanded to know where Nancy
Pelosi was.
An NBC report describes David Depape and Paul Pelosi both
holding on to a hammer when police arrived for a “welfare check” at
approximately 2:30 a.m.. The same article says police arrived in time to
witness the attack with Depape striking Mr. Pelosi multiple times in the head
and body. It is unknown whether police
were alerted by a direct alarm from the Pelosi residence or whether Mr. Pelosi
called 911 before the violent attack.
Police quickly disarmed Depape but one wonders if they might have saved Mr. Pelosi from near fatal injury if they’d shot him. Perhaps there were good reasons police did not fire on Depape. Or perhaps there were poor reasons why they didn’t.
Were the two men tangled so close that a police
bullet might have accidentally struck Pelosi? Or were police worried about police
department policy more inclined to sanction officers who use their weapons than
the dangerous and violent criminals who require their presence.
Police are still in the early stages of the investigation. A
neighbor who wished to remain anonymous said Depape lived in a school bus parked in a
driveway of a Berkley home. The home
itself was described as a “hippie collective.” A resident of that home refused to speak in
detail with FBI visitors who arrived on his doorstep to inquire about Pelosi’s
attacker. Another person says that he lived in a different school bus parked
nearby.
More details will emerge with a police press conference set to begin moments from now.
