A day after an attempted robbery at that left an 18-year-old would-be robber dead, the jewelry store announced it would be closed for the next several days.
The storefront was empty and the lights were off in the shop on the 2500 block of San Ramon Valley Boulevard. A note on the front door explained the closure:
To Our Customers and Friends,
Due to an un-fortunate incident we will be closed for the next several days. We appreciate your support and understanding.
Sincerely,
The Gold N' Treasures Team
On Wednesday afternoon, , San Ramon Police said. One of the robbers, , 18, brandished a gun and was shot by someone in the store. He then left the store, collapsed on San Ramon Valley Boulevard, and later died at .
Police are still seeking the other three suspects, who police said left the scene in a 1990s white sedan.
According to Mantra.com, a small business website, the store is owned by Everett Parvin.
Parvin could not be reached for comment.
The candy store next door to Gold N' Treasures, Oh So Sweet, , is also owned by the Parvin family. It was closed Thursday as well.
Employees and customers at neighboring businesses said they didn't hear the gunshot but that the shopping center turned into a hectic scene after the robbery attempt.
Jessica Lin, owner of , which is located a few stores down from Gold N' Treasures, said she didn't hear the gunshot but saw "three young kids" who were "skinny, tall and black and wearing t-shirts" run away from the scene.
Next door, at , Jeannie Kohles arrived around 4 p.m. and was eating and talking with the staff. She didn't notice anything out of the ordinary until she heard helicopters outside.
"We knew something had happened," Kohles said. "We went outside and saw the helicopters and police cars and the police started closing off the area."
Hairstylist Dalila Castanon, who works at Twenty-Five+Fifty Hair Studio, which is about 30 yards from Gold N' Treasures, also didn't hear anything and thought it might have been a hit-and-run when she first noticed police arriving at the scene.
Gloria Cheung, an employee at , wasn't working Wednesday, but said the shooting has affected business.
"We haven't had any customers last night or this morning and we're not expecting any tonight," Cheung said. "Hopefully it doesn't stay like that for long."
The shooting Wednesday was in the same shopping center as the . In that incident, San Ramon police officers shot Joseph John Baumgardner after he pointed a gun at them.
NO MORE...
as for the Section 8 housing, if you attended one single council meeting or even talked to Wilson when he was our mayor you idiots would know that Abraham was 100% against Section 8-- it was ALL THE COUNTRY NOT WILSON OR San Ramon that wanted it and they fought to keep it out of our city.. to no avail.. O AND BTW all those who voted NO on W - you voted to allow MORE LOW INCOME HOUSING in this city now that all of the power is in the hands of the county! So you can thank YOURSELVES FOR THAT! NOT ABRAM he LOVED THIS CITY and always wanted the BEST FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS CITY. regardless- this POS was from hayward not SR...morons...
could not have said it better...Things are certainly going down hill with the new regime in town..They can't manage the 4th of July fireworks..so we wont have them..whats next!!!!
The San Ramon Police are wonderful! Any time I've called for any incident, they have come out within a few minutes and handled the situation. I believe it's pretty sad when this racist pig SRVDAD makes comments he knows NOTHING about. San Ramon would be a MUCH BETTER PLACE if you moved your sorry butt out of the area!
All well said.If you don't like the San Ramon area or the 925 area code move your sorry ass out of town and be sure and take SRDAD and R with you.We have lived here since 1979 and raised three kids in what I think is a safe and nice area.Mayor Wilson and Chief Holder have done a great job.
city! Period!!
I have lived in Danville for 26+ years and just within the past couple years found out about the "group homes." I don't believe they should be allowed. Kids that have got into trouble and they can't or don't want to live with their parents so they spread them out amongst hard-working tax paying citizens that pay good money to live in the what "used to be" safer areas. I found this information out from a couple of San Ramon officers a couple years ago. They are not happy about them being placed in our neighborhoods either. I think if they make sex offenders register so the public can see where they're living, that they should also announce to the public where they are allowing these group homes to move in. They probably get better rent than us because I believe the court system sets them up!
I've lived in San Ramon since 1989 and I dare you to find a community in the Bay Area of comparable population with our crime stats. The robber wasn't a San Ramon resident. It was his decision, along with his three thug friends, to come here and commit this robbery. So where do you plan to shop? According to the Sperlings Best Places website, both Dublin and Walnut Creek have the same crime stats San Ramon does (3 on a 1 to 10 scale, with 10 being the worst). Livermore's violent crime stat is 4. When I moved to San Ramon in, our violent crime stat was 1, but, we also had a population of around 25,000. We're not as safe as we used to be, but, I believe San Ramon is still a beautiful, safe community and I still love living here. I feel so bad for these store owners. Their family must be so traumatized by this. I shopped at the Safeway across the street yesterday and saw a group of people near the store as I left. No one gets up and goes to work in the morning thinking they may have to kill someone that day. Just very sad.
Wake up!! People are individuals, not just a race. There are good and bad in ALL races. Do us all a favor - post your address so we'll make SURE we don't accidently move into your neighborhood. Especially me - as a black person, you'd probably burn a KKK symbol on my front lawn. I would hate to be walking around in that racist, stereotyping, narrow-minded head of yours.
San Ramon is a wonderful, diviserfied place of people and cultures, I personally love it. I am sorry some of the above people actually have these opinions they are expressing. Let's go Niners Susan
How about this for racism. If 90% of white voters voted for a white presidential candidate it would be called racisim by many but if the black population does the exact same thing not a word is said. Reject the R word people it is the last resort of a failed debate.
Please supply a list of the most amazing people coming from section 8. I can see you a a logical person. This should be fun.