A 31-year-old man arrested after allegedly firing a gun in a Concord backyard has been charged with negligent discharge of a firearm, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and resisting arrest, Concord police said.
The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office on Friday filed the charges against Kentreal Julius Irving, who had recent addresses in Richmond and Sacramento. Irving remained in the Martinez Detention Facility Saturday night in lieu of a $50,000 bond.
Concord police were called Tuesday to the 3500 block of Concord Boulevard, near Farm Bureau Road, on reports of someone discharging a firearm in a back yard. When officers arrived, the man later identified as Irving fled by jumping neighborhood fences.
After a 49-minute, 1.6-mile pursuit, police arrested Irving near Chestnut Avenue and Emma Court, police said.
Officers found a loaded gun and several shell casings near where they first spotted Irving, police said.
RELATED STORY: UPDATE: Concord Police Searching For Suspect Off Walnut Ave. (In Between Concord Blvd. & Clayton Rd. Near Farm Bureau)
So in other words, He’ll be out tonight
Wait for it
Yes the district attorney will plead down the charges
and release him
With apologies Of course for inconvenience and causing him to jump fences and endanger the public as he fled pursuit.
Also giving him free tickets to a warriors game
And new nike shoes
Remember giving criminals what ever they want reduces crime right
So open your doors and minds to prop 47
And the da agenda of being light on crime
and allowing the non criminals to be preyed upon and laughed at …..
for being good citizens obeying the laws
Must be nice to pay taxes and obey the laws while the politics and judges and district attorneys are all endorsing crime and criminals and making YOU pay for it
Enjoy lol
You wanted this
And voted for it
How Dare they threaten his life by putting him in jail, he needs to be released immediately so that he doesn’t catch COVID-19
Poor guy, with the gun ranges closed, where is a man go to pop off a few rounds.
Whoever he stole that gun from is going to be happy to get it back. Those things are expensive.
Sad thing is that the person it was stolen from is probably in bigger trouble than him for having a gun stored in there own home where some one like him could actually steal it from. The lefts logic at work
That gun has the capability to penetrate body armor. Not a good thing for law enforcement. Look Him Up !
Where should I look him up? Twitter, Facebook, Grinder?
Oops, my bad… it’s Grindr 😆
It slipped by me…Lock Him up…
Penetrate body armor huh? Can you tell us what make and model of the firearm was? Can you tell us what type of ammo was being used? Was it ball ammo, frangible, steel core? Are you aware there are many different levels of tacyical vests available? They are rated to different kinds of gunfire as well as other penetrating injuries. Please stop spreading false info on things that you know nothing about.
A C, Why the burr up your butt? Wizzy’s statement is correct. This is where one would ask if you actually read the article, but in this case did you actually look at the picture? Yes, that weapon has the capability to… and yes, the capable ammo can be bought on the streets…
pew pew… your comments below are just a bad.
for you two this only proves the old saying: the more you learn the less you know.
American Citizen, Look at the picture and do some research. It’s not to hard to do these days.
Great job CPD
Some of yall are pathetic. People have mental health issues, and some are experiencing higher stresses while sheltering in place. We need to prioritize mental healthcare along with physical healthcare to help people not do dangerous crap like this. If we can provide help for poverty and mental health then most crimes will stop happening.
Oh my god Concerned get a clue. He was a felon in possession of a gun. His mental problem is he is a low life and the left has enabled him with there go lightly on crime agenda.
Deterrence of crime thru threat of incarceration.
For those who don’t recall three strikes law passed in 1994, 5,906,268 71.85% in favor and no vote was 2,314,548 28.15%.
An here we are in 2020 in liberal CA, where a criminal really has to work hard to be charged with a Felony.
A state where county jails are little more than revolving doors for misdemeanor property criminals. Ya know, the ones breaking into vehicles, businesses and residences.
IF there is little downside for criminals being predacious upon society, don’t be surprised if crime increases.
Oh what the heck give ’em all participation trophies, that’ll give ’em empathy for their victims.
A felon in possession of a firearm should be considered a high value target. That is all it should be considered to law enforcement.
I’m surprised that he’s still in jail.
Usually, the DA lets these guys go free.
Irving really didn’t hurt anyone.
But I’m glad to hear he’s in jail for now.
I hope he stays there for a long long time.
Dr. J!!!
That’s a 5.7 pistol. Glad to hear and see that no Officers were shot during this incident. 9 times out of 10, that 5.7 round WILL go through body armor. I call it the “baby AK round”.
Virtually all firearms are capable of defeating body Armour, especially with modern / defensive loadings.
The 5.7 cartridge is virtually worthless in a semi-auto format anyway. It was designed specifically for select fire platforms, for a very niche Personal Defense Weapon.
Street 5.7 ammo is NOT AP. It is extremely hard to obtain AP rated 5.7 ammo, legally or otherwise.
That’s not necessarily true. There are many different sorts of tactical vests that are rated for different sort of ballistics. It all depends on the type of vest worn and the type of plating that you have inside the vest. I’ve never seen a quality vest that couldn’t stop most ammo from handguns. Rifle ballistics is a different story. The amount of velocity that rifles produce create far more likelihood of penetration of certain vests. This is the exact reason why steel core 5.45 * 39 ammo is no longer legal for import. It was rifle ammo for a long time and then someone developed a handgun to use it in. Not all firearms can defeat body armor.
American Citizen, Next time before you engage the key board. Find out about the model of the gun, It’s a hand gun that shots a very high velocity round. One of these days I wish I can know as much as you about guns. Do you write Books on the subject mater?
How ’bout that, there gonna keep one in jail ! ! !
Glad he is still in custody. This was too close to home for me.
That’s a mighty small “rifle”.
So have they let him out without bail yet because he might get the virus in jail?
So did they cite release him on his promise to appear?
Grew up near there in the 60’s/70’s – looks like Concord’s really changed.
The bail seems pretty low for a felon in possession of a firearm. He was probably just about to turn his life around. I think they were profiling.
FN Five Seven. Oddly expensive gun for a felon
usually market only to military and police…
My guess is he followed ALL the gun laws and purchased it by the book.
Wouldn’t you agree?????
Oh most certainly! He followed our stringent gun laws to the very end!
Anti gunners are finding out just how hard it is to legally purchase the tools to defend your family from trash like this. That’s a good thing.
Most felons don’t buy guns at gun stores. The 5.7 is actively marketed toward competitive shooters and other freedom-loving citizens. Maybe now the liberals can see that they have made it more and more difficult for true Patriots to acquire the tools they need to protect themselves. Especially now that the liberals have voted crime to become legal.
Doesn’t sound like he was in possession of the gun when he was arrested. If he was allegedly firing it, why wasn’t he allegedly in possession of it?
Because he allegedly dumped it and ran when he saw the cops.
Diana Becton is the worst DA in Contra Costa County history. She was backed by George Soros. She rules from her Ivory Tower and let’s criminals run through the cities causing havoc and mayhem. When criminals are arrested. She pleads them down or releases them for “lack of evidence”. Normally when you are arrested the police have pretty good evidence. She has handcuffed police from doing their jobs. She has given criminals a free reign of terror on law abiding citizens. Her and her band of idiots are part of the corruption that is ruining CC County. We need Diana Becton removed immediately.
That’s BS. Do you work at the courts?
@on da; No, it’s not BS
ON DA,
That’s the reality, Becton is horrible. Released the two arrested from a recent Pleasant Hill home invasion. I’m former law enforcement.
108RS
Two words, Castle Doctrine.
Jeff my family and I have been in the business for like 2 centuries or 3. I have deep respect for all enforcement and welfare of families. They know what they are doing, even if it totally sounds unbelievable. Easy to make judgements on scarce hear say. And I do mean scarce.
ON DA,
How do you explain releasing two individuals who kicked in a door with occupants home and then attempted to run over the homeowner with a car. Sure sounds like assault with a deadly weapon to me. Those guys were lucky the homeowner didn’t go for his gun first…..they would have been stacked up at the morgue.
108RS
Wow I don’t think that ( concerned )
Understands that for over 40 years in this state the democrats have forced us to pay for the mental care
Or have you also not heard of the opioid medication running rampant being thrown at anyone who will buy it from a doctor
I am sorry your ill informed about how this state is run and or maybe your on the democrat system and are forced to repeat their agenda laden sleek about how we need to do what needs to be done
Even though the so called elected officials are supposed to handle the cities problems
Anyone care to explain what the dem politicians are doing for the city
They seem to be telling us to deal with crime and bums and mental challenged
As they take our money and do nothing
Is there some sort of reason he was shooting stars or something?
It doesn’t matter, he shouldn’t have been in possession of a gun.
Someone could have been injured or killed when the bullets returned to earth.
Nice work CPD!
This shouldn’t be happening. Can we get sensible gun laws? If only you weren’t allowed to have a gun felons like this man could never get their hands on one either.
I’m praying your being sarcastic and truly don’t think that is the solution. Scary thought if you really think that will change any behavior of criminals in getting what they want for there crimes.
Yeah, and if you banned forks nobody would become obese. While you are at it, let’s eliminate car accidents by banning cars.
Googy,
There’s only one sensible gun law. We Americans refer to it as The Second Amendment. Anything else is uncivilized.
Go ahead, make my day.
108RS
Great job, CPD.
CPD management: Allow your hard working officers to fight crime. And tell Captain Cleans-A-Lot to go home and shelter in place.
If you’re going to release felons from jsil, at least provide supervision and work, to keep them out of trouble. Let them earn providing farm labor. We don’t need illegals. Reward them at the end of the day with some pot.
https://geekbeat.tv/review-uniden-home-patrol-2/
He’s looking at a year or so which is pretty heavy for being an idiot, but clearly he’s not responsible enough to have a gun otherwise he wouldn’t have been needlessly firing it. I used to live right next to there, that part of Concord is known as “Crankord” because about a tenth of households there having someone using meth, especially with the trailer park right there.
He’s a convicted felon. Hs is legally prohibited from having a gun and ammunition. That didn’t stop him, though.
Where is this trailer park?
Hope he was wearing s mask!!
What? Did I just hear the sound of a wrist being slapped?
He’ll be loose on the streets in no time as I am sure he’ll claim he’s afraid of contracting the Wuhan virus in jail and needs to be set free.
I’m not addressing this to anyone specifically but there seems to be some confusion about the 5.7 x 28 cartridge and it’s ballistic performance. No, I haven’t written a book about it, but read most of them. The 5.7 was introduced as a replacement for the 9×19 Parabellum. NATO didn’t end up adopting it but it is widely used in Europe. The cartridge was centered around the P90 PDW and the FN Five 7 pistol. Three key areas of ballistic performance:
Velocity: The 5.7 is a 31 +/- grain projectile at aproximateLy 2000 to 2200 feet per second. The 9 mm(9×19 – 9 mm Parabellum – etc) is a 115 grain or 124 grain at 1100 to 1200 feet per second. So the 9mm is four times as heavy and half as fast. Are you willing to give up bullet weight for velocity? Not me. Winner 5.7 x 28 with an asterix
Muzzle Energy: The Corbon 115 gr JHP delivers 466 foot pounds of energy from a 4″ barrel. The 5.7x28mm drives a 32 grain bullet, load #SS190-AP (armor piercing), at a muzzle velocity of 2350 fps with 390 ft. lbs. of muzzle energy, but that’s only from the 10 ” barrel P90, not the FN pistol! (an effective range of 50 m and a max range of 1,510 m when fired from the Five-seven) Winner–9 X 19 Parabellum
Penetration: In 1999, the RCMP Forensics Laboratory ran comparative testing of the 5.7x28SS190 against body armor at 3 and 25 meters using calibrated 10% ordnance gelatin.
Additionally, in the Spring 2000 edition of the Journal of the International Wound Ballistics Association this report was published in its entirety along with data that supported the assessment that “the wound capability of the 5.7×28 SS190 is approximately 40 percent that of a 9mm 124 grain FMJ fired from a Glock 19, with appreciably smaller wound size, penetration depth, wound channel diameter and soft tissue volume displacement”.
Winner: 9 x 19 Parabellum
So if you’re old like me and remeber the .22 Remington Jet cartridge which you could shoot out of a S&W 53 revolver, the 5.7 is similar balistically to that. Fast but not all that fearsome and the advantages don’t outweigh the disadvantages. And the scary numbers all come out of the P90 anyway. Which even if you could find, they start at $1500. And 5.7 x 28 starts @ .40 a round and goes up over $1 a round.
I’ve already posted about body armor levels and penetration. I’ll try and find that instead of typing it all again.
Thank you Atticus. The amount of thought and opinion that goes into the design of firearms and ammunition has always interested me.
Attucus,
So to answer your question…would I rather get shot with the 5.7 or the 9mm? The 5.7 of course.
Only know a few people who own these, not very popular or useful. Like any firearm, they are fun to shoot but…
Ruger felt there was enough of a market for the cartridge to put out a new pistol recently. I’m betting they don’t make enough money off it to continue long term production.
My pleasure WC. I often think to myself maybe least interesting thing about military firearms for a hobby is shooting them. Until I get to the firing line anyway. I have a 104 year old Swedish military rifle (Mod 96) that shoots an odd caliber(6.5 x 55 ) and I have had more fun developing loads for it to squeak out that last sliver of MOA, than a line full of guys going full auto with their ARs are having. Now it shoots tea cup sized groups at 100 yards and dinner plate sized a 500 yards. From a 104 year old beater rifle I paid maybe $200 for! 😎
#swedishriflesarebestrifles
1791 I agree. But I guess it doesn’t matter what caliber it is if you miss, right? 🤪🔫
some good old rock salt will do the trick
And everyone knows Black Talons are cop-killer bullets. 😉