CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : REDWOOD CITY : Salcido Witness Tells of ‘Watch Out’ Cries

Ramon Salcido’s neighbor testified that desperate cries of “watch out” followed by three gunshots sounded from Salcido’s house on the morning he is accused of killing seven people. Margarita Ledeam, who lived next door to Salcido in the second unit of a Boyes Hot Springs duplex, said a commotion preceded the gunfire. Salcido, 29, is charged with fatally shooting his wife, Angela, 24, in the couple’s home and cutting the throats of their three daughters and leaving them for dead in a county dump. Sofia, 4, and Teresa, 22 months, died. Carmina, then 2, survived. He also is charged with fatally stabbing his mother-in-law, Marian Richards, 47, her daughters, 12-year-old Ruth and 8-year-old Marie, and with shooting to death Tracey Toovey, 35, a co-worker at the winery in Glen Ellen. Salcido has confessed to the crimes, but his attorney argued that he was in a “psychotic depression” and not capable of planning the killings.