Police continue search for MTS shooting motive San Diego police are interviewing witnesses who may have more information surrounding the Tuesday, March 24 shooting in which a Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) repairman opened fire in a downtown bus yard, killing one co-worker and injuring another before being shot and killed by officers. According to police, Lonnie Glasco, 47, entered the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System bus yard at 100 16th St. near the East Village early March 24 following his shift and threatened his co-workers with a gun, telling them, “No one’s leaving here.” Police said Glasco then walked outside and critically injured one person. Witnesses reportedly heard the gunfire and tried to run when the suspect shot and killed a second victim, 37-year old Benjamin Mwangi. MTS officials said both victims are MTS employees. Mwangi was a maintenance foreman position at MTS. According to an acquaintance of Glasco, the suspect had been despondent over losing his wife and his home. Officers are interviewing witnesses who may have more information on the details surrounding the shooting. Glasco, a 29-year veteran of MTS, repaired MTS’ automated fare boxes. Deckhand sentenced in 2007 stabbing case A former deckhand on the fishing vessel Alaska was sentenced March 19 to 13 years in prison for stabbing another crewmember in a 2007 incident and was ordered to pay $12,000 in medical expenses to the victim. Robert David Legerrette, 70, had agreed to accept a stipulated sentence in the Aug. 11, 2007 stabbing of David Cunningham, 52, while the Alaska was moored at 750 North Harbor Drive around 5:50 a.m., according to court records. Cunningham was stabbed in the chest. San Diego Superior Court Judge David Danielsen gave Legerrette credit for almost 1½ years served. Legerrette will have to serve 80 percent of his 13-year term before he can be paroled, according to court records. The motive for the assault is unknown, said a prosecutor. Legerrette was also accused of attempted murder and of being under the influence of Vicodin, codeine and morphine at the time of the assault. These charges, however, were dropped in return for the plea agreement on the main assault charge. Legerrette drew a lengthy sentence partly because of his criminal record. He was convicted of robbery in 1971, attempted theft in 1997 and burglary in 2000, according to records. Legerrette fled the ship after the 2007 assault, and San Diego Harbor Police distributed fliers with his picture. Paramedics were trying to deal with an “unruly person” later that day when someone saw a flier and recognized Legerrette. Harbor police responded and arrested him. Groups grade city, county on environmental voting Four leading environmental groups have released report cards on the environmental voting records of the city and county of San Diego, with county supervisors receiving an average mark for their efforts and their city counterparts scoring somewhat higher. The League of Conservation Voters San Diego, San Diego Coastkeeper and the local chapters of the Surfrider Foundation and the Sierra Club gave the city council and Mayor Jerry Sanders an overall grade of B-plus regarding issues impacting local waters and coastal habitat over the last full year. “The 2008 San Diego Water Quality Report Card” includes information on the city’s votes on water and wastewater rate increases, urban run-off issues, the beach alcohol ban and coastal protection funding. Five current and former councilmembers scored in the A range. “The 2008 San Diego County Environmental Report Card” assesses the county board of supervisors on their actions during 2008 related to water and air quality, land use and renewable energy. The average grade was a C, with supervisors Pam Slater-Price and Greg Cox receiving the highest marks, at B-minus. The report cards, released Feb. 26, were prepared by Strategic Community Consulting, a student-managed firm based at the University of California, San Diego. This is the first year the groups have issued an assessment of the county’s actions; the city’s report card is the seventh such document. The reports mark the first time all four groups have jointly released their findings. Cuban TV tech defects during baseball classic Yuri Boza, a Cuban broadcast television technician assigned to help cover his country’s performance in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, defected in San Diego on Friday, March 13 to seek political asylum in the United States. In an interview with a Miami TV station, Boza said he made the decision to defect when he’d learned he’d be traveling internationally to work on the games. Cuba’s victory over Australia assured the team’s visit to San Diego, where Boza boarded a flight for south Florida. He arrived in Miami, where a brother has lived for five years, the next day. Boza, 31, said he also entertained defection during travel to the Pan-American games in Rio de Janeiro in 2007 and to the Olympics in Beijing last year. “Young Cubans don’t have any loyalty to the revolution,” Boza told a Miami newspaper. “We simply don’t want to stay there because we see no future… and I’m not daunted by the current economic crisis because in Cuba we were born in and have always lived in crisis.” SDG&E hawks new kit that saves water, energy San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is offering a kit designed for double duty – the conservation of both water and energy – to all residential customers with an SDG&E account. And it’s free. The new Home Energy- and Water-Savings Kit includes aerators for the kitchen and bathroom faucets, a low-flow showerhead and a list of tips to save energy. Aerators introduce air into the water flow, maintaining high pressure while reducing usage; low-flow showerheads do pretty much the same thing and can cut the use of water by more than 50 percent. One kit is available per household; please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. To order, visit sdge.com/energykit or call the company’s energy information center at (800) 644-6133.