The owner of Skim X, a planned indoor skimboarding facility in Roseville, California, was found shot to death inside his place of business Monday afternoon May 30, 2011, according to a story in the Placer Herald.
Christopher Dale Northam, 44, of Rocklin, was found inside Skim X, in the 8200 block of Industrial Avenue in Roseville, with at least one fatal gunshot wound. . . Police responded to reports of an argument and multiple shots fired inside the business shortly after 3 p.m. . . “During the call, the person on the phone line with us then heard three gunshots, at least three, maybe more gunshots inside the business,” said Roseville Police Sgt. Daniel Wanamaker at the scene.
Northam and his son were reportedly working on a new kind of boarding complex that mixed ramps, water, and slick surfaces to create a skimboarding skatepark.
We’ve been following the business for a while thanks to its seemingly quixotic business plan. Northam reportedly said the park would open in June. So far no arrests have been made. Our thoughts are with his family.
[Link: Placer Herald and Sacramento Business Journal]
There is no need to capitalize ”quixotic”, as it is being used as an adjective-even though it derives from Quixote’s last name.
Huzzah for grammar!
He was very mean to his staff.
I know both him and his son Jr.. He was trying to do something really cool but had a $ trail of other peoples $ that was not good…. God rest his soul and catch the POS that stole his life and ability to make all of it a go!!!!
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