EB83 ive been looking for jared for alil over 5 years i used to work with him from what i remeber he could be a hard ass but never violent unless need be meth does make u do stupid things but i truly think that there was a struggle i couldnt see jared intentionally killing anyone ever period...............

How did two people on meth turn the whole town of Tracy on meth?

If Tracy PD is'nt treating the meth problem seriously,raise a fuss. I rented-out three rooms in my Orange County house for nine years prior to moving to Trona,Ca. I figure 80% of the people who answered my room-for-rent ads were meth addicts. So I am well aware of the effects of long term methamphetamine addiction. I could tell you true stories of what I saw that would make you lose your lunch. Meth is no joke. It is a deadly serious problem in towns large and small thruout America.

** I meant to write I wish the best for the victim's family & hope they are able to get through this ordeal. Losing a loved one, especially in such a way, must be incredibly hard. **

I grew up in Tracy & was at one time very close to the Alger family. They are all amazing, wonderful people. Jared was always the "black sheep" of the family. He was a handsome, caring young man & when I heard this story it was hard to believe it could possibly be the same person. I've lost contact with the family over the last ten years, but nonetheless, the memories I have of them are all great ones. My thoughts go out to his family and the family of Steve. This entire event is just tragic and it pains me that this happened. I wish the best for the victim. Just goes to show that drugs make people do horrible, evil things.

Here's what it all boils down to "Alger and his friend were high on methamphetamine during their trip to a Brentwood marsh in 2006 to hunt for coyotes, bullfrogs and rabbits, prosecutors said". Both individuals were high on meth with loaded firearms. I have firearms. Hades would turn to ice water before I ever got within a country mile of my guns if I so much as spilled a drop of beer on me. Guns and anything that affects the mind are not compatable. That I actually have to SAY this reflects horribly on today's society.

This is a poor picture of Steve. He was a hard working awesome father. He messed around with meth once in awhile and one too many times. There was bad vibes between Jared and Steve. Steve employed him and let him live in his house with his children then Steve fired the little drug addict and then killed him in cold blood. The papers didn't mention the verbal fight earlier in the day or the bump on the back of the head or Steve being shot in the face. I wish it told the real story for Steves sake. He was by no means perfect, but didn't deserve to die.

If you want to know about my experience in Trona,Ca this 1950s movie pretty much spells it out. It was filmed spitting distance from Trona. Tag me the 'mysterious stranger' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Day_at_Black_Rock

Well,it was the year 2003. I was experiencing hard times,so I looked into selling my property in the classy section of North Tusti/Lemon Heights,Orange County. It was the last of 80 acres my grandfather had purchased for fifty bucks back in 1899 that I had inherited. So I offered my property for a ridiculous price. It sold in 72 hours,holy mackeral. So I had enough money to buy Ferraries for the rest of my life. But oh gosh escroe would close soon so I had to find a new house ASAP. Wearing boxer shorts I sat at my computer websearching properties. Omigosh the realtors had overpriced everything north,south,east and west. I was alone. Just me and 10 rescued cats. I did'nt want a mansion. In frustration I websearched hell and Trona,Ca popped up on my screen. I went there,bought a lovely three bedroom two bath house w/ huge garage,front and back yards for $24,000. Then I put another $$40,000 into buying a new 4 wheel drive Nissan Frontier truck,new Honda 350 Rancher ATV,all new appliances and tons of other goodies. Then I set about getting to know the Tronians who seem very nice though I think they're the result of generations of incest. I get along with them very well. All in all me so happy.

Yeah, we have about 87,000 or so living here.

We are really not that small.

Not too hot here. Summers we have many days over 100, but rare to get over 110. Many people have pools in their backyards. I would say the valleys meth problems are more concentrated in the foothills (so I have heard). How'd you end up in Trona gain?

Wow. You folks actually have a city. My ghost town is located on the bottom of ancient Searles Lake. 10,000 years ago it had 900' of water in it. The water dried up thousands of years ago. Death Valley is only a several minute drive from my house. Temperatures here are same as Death Valley which means 130F during August. We have one barely surviving food market,one liquor store and that's about it. To shop I drive 62 miles thru the desert to Ridgecrest. Our meth situation is under control now but in years past it destroyed the town. There's a sea of burned down arson-caused house fires here result of payback for drug sale ripoffs.

Kiddinnnnnnng ya shelly13!

You are fine, intelligent people can figure out what the person is saying.... happens to me, too. Get letters transposed, my key dropping a letter, finger brain fluke...

Might want to strap on tinfoil hats to avoid the spelling scrambling in our brains!

That is what happens when you spend too much time in the "cell", you get to hang around lots of rednecks and their speaking and spelling rubs on ya. Thar's no reison to be spiling bad...but sumetimes it isok.. i aim to keep mahself abeast in udeucatin mahself.... too late, my foil ran out!

cut downtown? How about "cute" sorry I'm seeing lots of typos. Should have proof read that one.

Tinfoil, how are ya!

Well, in Tracy we are a commuter city. Most people work in the San Fran Bay Area. Without traffic we are only an hour away from the city - but there is usuallly always traffic. Lots of tract homes = suburbia city.

The Delta winds through here so many people fish, go boating, wakeboard etc.

We have a cut downtown that does better in the day, but a ngiht soed not have much to offer, but we are working on that. It has had some great renovations and has huge potential.

Not a lot of trailer parks and meth. Mostly working families. Big into baseball, soccer and football leagues. We have a mall with some stores closing due to recession. But we still have Target, Wallmart, Costco, Bed and Bath, Home Depot, Marshalls, JC Penney, Barnes and Noble and an Outlet Mall. Chevy's, Applebee's, Olive Garden, Texas Roadhouse, lots of fast food. A movie theater in the mall and lots of farmland around.

I hope that gives you a better picture of our city. It's nice. We have a few problems, especially the ones in the Press lately, but it is a good place. I think within the next 10 yars, if the council does thing right, we will really have a lot more to offer.

One thing I wonder about,Trona and Tracy being sister cities is what do you people do for thrillzies. Here in my desert ghost town it's laying outside in an aluminum lawn chair drinking beer Saturday afternoons,listening to Jimi Hendrix's Hear My Train A Comin' on the stereo while looking for UFOs from nearby Area 51 passing overhead. From reading the Tracy News it looks like you folks have trailor parks and meth. There must be something else. Do you have shopping centers?

There's a lot of us in America born into a different time at odds with today's foolishnesses. My grandfather whose lap I used to sit on was born in the 1870s. His son my father was born in 1910. My mother was born in 1912. I was born in 1946. My parents concieved me in joyous celebration of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. I had a BB gun at 8,pellet gun at 9 and an antique Sears Roebuck single shot bolt action .22 at 12 that I bought for $7 at the long gone Tustin Hardware Store. No defense lawyer wants me on his/her jury on a firearms-related murder trial.

PS. Glad you are a member of NRA! Tired of having to explain what a "round" is... my friends kept thinking when they hear on TV show in the shooting of a round is like automatic spitting out 120 bullets a second when I had to tell them it is just one bullet!!! Guess I ruined their own sense of morbidity!

Thanks for the laugh!!!

Yeah, people get desensitized to reality and the length of time it takes to take through examination of the case... I would be amazed if anyone on the jury fell for it!!!

Dumbing down of judical system? I hope not!

Didn't like it any time the victims rights gets trampled.

Victims have the right to take drugs, smart, heck no!

Victims under the influence handling weapons, smart, no?

Makes me wonder if they trampled their own rights??

I think Ms Barker felt free to give that bogus scenario because juries have been raised on tv shows. 'The gun just went off by itself' works fine on tv. In real life someone has to pull a trigger. I'm amazed the prosecutor did'nt do a courtroom act-out with a partner and an unloaded rifle. I figure there was an agreement between prosecutor and defense to let the trial go where it went. The core of this tragedy was meth. Had neither party been high on meth no murder would have occurred. I'm an NRA member,too.