Officers were called at 1:48 p.m. to E2's Gun Vault, in the 300 block of El Camino Real, for a report of a handgun theft, according to the Mountain View Police Department. They arrived to find the business owner and an employee detaining a 33-year-old Mountain View man. An initial investigation found that the man walked into the shop and immediately ran out with a firearm he had not purchased, police said, prompting the owner and his employee to chase the man for several blocks.
Richard Raymond Klein, at 6 feet, 7 inches tall and weighing 280 pounds, clad in a striped jail jumpsuit, his head shaved, appeared in Department 23 in Vallejo to learn of his trial date and the setting of a motion to suppress evidence. Standing behind a lectern near the courtroom's jury box, shackled at the waist and legs, he towered over his defense attorney, Dustin M. Gordon,