Pleasant Hill’s mayor has defended the tactics of local police last week, when they surrounded the house of a former Pittsburg police officer who shot his wife on Thursday, then apparently left early Friday morning without arresting him.
Police shut down the Sherman Acres neighborhood around 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Chunliam Saechao, 40, had barricaded himself in his home at 227 Cleopatra Drive after shooting his wife once with a shotgun through a closed door.
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