Jimmie Lopez didn't think much of it when around 7:40 p.m. on October 30 he saw a strange car sitting idle in front of the Oakland home he shares with his husband, Marco Chavez, and their two children. "It was definitely an older model — 1990s or early 2000s.
I'm not exactly a car buff," Lopez, a 43-year-old gay man, told the Bay Area Reporter. "Maybe a Buick, Oldsmobile, or an older Dodge.
Silver or cream; it was dark outside." As he went back into the house, the car pulled closer to the front of the couple's home.
Chavez was holding their 5-week-old baby girl behind the living room's bay windows. Their 4-year-old daughter was also in the room. "I told Marco and the girls to get ready for dinner," Lopez said. "Within a couple of seconds, I