Household, Pals of Slain Campbell Tech Exec Wrestle to Make Sense of Taking pictures – CBS San Francisco

CAMPBELL (KPIX) – Family and friends of a Campbell man who was shot dead outside his own house nearly two weeks ago said Friday that it makes no sense why he would have been targeted.

Greg Cirimele, 42, was the “life of the party” who, according to his parents, had “hundreds of friends,” best friend and neighbor.

“He was that kid who just – you couldn’t like him, he was full of life, he was full of energy,” said Cirimele’s mother, Kim Cirimele.

At 10:45 am on November 2, Campbell Police responded to a shooting on West Sunnyoaks Avenue. A witness told 911 dispatchers that he saw a blue Saturn in the middle of the street and that Cirimele walked up to the driver and started hitting him, according to Mercury News. The man behind the wheel pulled out a gun and began firing multiple shots at Cirimele, hitting him twice in the chest, the newspaper reported.

The witness followed the Saturn and gave the dispatcher the license plate. The Mercury News reported that within minutes police arrested 18-year-old Nickolas Amman from a house a mile away.

“It could have been any of us in the neighborhood and I think that’s the scariest thing about it being just so random,” said Cirimele’s neighbor Morgan Musto.

KPIX has contacted Campbell police but has not yet received a response.

Shortly after the fatal shooting, a candlelight vigil was held, which attracted a large crowd to remember the Silicon Valley manager. Ten days after he was murdered, candles continued to burn for Cirimele, and a heart was drawn on the street where he collapsed.

“I just want to know what happened. I mean, it was very unusual for Greg to get into any kind of argument, ”said Cirimele’s best friend James Boucher.

The two of them, he said, spent every day doing sports, playing softball, and going on trips. Boucher said he met Cirimele playing baseball at Menlo College two decades ago and the two became inseparable.

Boucher said it was because of Cirimele that he got a job years ago and that Cirimele was the reason for so many friendships he made over the years.

“It seems like he made very good friends everywhere he went,” said Boucher. “That’s why it’s all so shocking and somehow incomprehensible how this could happen.”

Musto had the same thing to say about Cirimele.

“He actually made you feel like he cared about what you had to say,” said Musto.

Most devastating for those who know the former baseball star is that he leaves behind two young daughters and a wife.

“Loves her to death, I mean he’s a real girl dad and you miss him so much,” said his dad, Gary Cirimele.

Gary and Kim had just returned from a trip to Hawaii with their son and granddaughters.

“He was just a good, good person,” said Kim.

Cirimele’s funeral is scheduled just before Thanksgiving. His wife told KPIX that Cirimele was her “best friend” and that they were all “shocked and devastated”.

“I check this phone every morning, there are no text messages,” said Gary. “I didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye.”