EXCLUSIVE: The home of former San Jose State University Assistant Volleyball coach Melissa Batie-Smoose was shot on Monday night in Scotts Valley, California, Batie-smoose and local police have told Pakinomist Digital.
Scott’s Valley Police Department Captain Scott Garner told Pakinomist Digital that officers have decided that the weapon used was a pellet gun and it is examined as a vandalism. The pellet has been recovered by police. No one was injured and no suspect or motive has been determined. The study is ongoing.
“We follow up with some neighbors just to see what we can find out,” Garner said. “At this point there is no surveillance, there is no leads, there is none nothing. We just want to do our Due Diligence to go and interview the neighbors.”
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Batie-Smoose’s contract with San Jose State expired on January 31, after she was suspended from the program in November. Batie-Smoose previously filed a title IX complaint against the program about a situation involving the transnry volleyball player Blaire Fleming. Batie smoosis is also involved in a lawsuit against SJSU and Mountain West Conference on the situation involving Fleming.
There is no connection between Monday evening’s event and Batie-Smoose’s title IX complaint, departure from the program and the ongoing trial has been determined by the police.
However, Batie Smoosis believes she was “targeted” for it.
“I do,” Batie-Smoose told Pakinomist Digital when she was asked if she thinks the incident was linked to the situation involving SJSU and Fleming. “It can’t be a coincidence I’ve never had this to happen, and in our neighborhood I spoke with neighbors who have lived there over 10 years and not even a robber in the area so much less someone shooting at someone in their house. “
Hole in the window of former San Jose State Assistant Volleyball coach Melissa Batie-Smoose after an incident where her home was shot by what the police have decided was a pellet gun. (Photo with permission from Melissa Batie-Smoose)
Batie Smoose said the incident took place when she was in a virtual meeting with members of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (Icons).
She spoke with the leading lawyer Bill Bock and Mountain West Conference Volleyball players involved in the trial. When they discussed the legal struggle and NCAA’s new policy on gender eligibility, she heard Glass Bryde in her home.
“I hear this great sound and it sounds like breaking glass, and at first I was like ‘what just happened? Where did that sound come from?’ And then, once it is registered, I look over to the window and I see the ball hole.
Batie-Smoose said she crawled on the floor behind her couch and called her husband and asked him to call the police. The pellet was shot at the window against her backyard.
“Police said the shot was going to come from the street behind me,” Batie-Smoose said, adding that most of her neighbors were not home when the incident took place.
When Batie-Smoosis was informed that the police decided that the incident was a vandalism, due to the fact that the weapon used was, she called the decision “crazy.”
“So because it potentially can’t be a gun that it is just considered vandalism, even if it can hurt you?” Said Batie-Smoosis. “It’s a little crazy to me. Whatever, if an object by that force comes to your head you’ll be hurt. It’s crazy for me.
“I don’t know how this is downgraded to vandalism.”
Batie-Smoosis said she previously received hostile emails about her attitude towards Fleming and Trans-Inclusion in women’s sports. She also claimed to have had personal changes with individuals in Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley who disagreed with her attitude.
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“People recognize me in society and I’m in an area that speaks out and speaks to fight for women’s sports, I’m in an area with some crazies, and I definitely think it was a goal of me to speak out , ”She said.
Batie-Smoose added that all coaches and players involved in the San Jose State’s volleyball program know her address. Batie-Smoose joined the program in 2023, but does not exclude individuals outside the program who found out her address in other ways.
“I feel that this day and age people could come and find your address pretty easily,” said Batie-Smoose. “Have I put it out there? No. But I’m sure if you were so hard enough you could find my address.”
Batie-Smoose has since left his home and is staying somewhere else while the investigation continues.
Batie smoosis has appeared on Pakinomist programs several times that advocate the protection of women’s sports in the midst of the ongoing scandal with San Jose State.
Batie smoosis was suspended from the program on November 2nd after she submitted the title IX complaint. The complaint included accusations that Fleming had conspired with an opponent to have the former SJSU-CO captain Brooke Slusser hit the face during a October match.
Regular police protection was awarded to the team and continued throughout the season in the midst of security concerns, including an incident in which slusses were informed of a physical threat to her security on October 2nd, Pakinomist reported Digital earlier.
Both Slusser’s trial and Batie-Smoose’s title IX complaint claims Fleming conspired with Colorado State Volleyball Player Malaya Jones prior to the match between the two programs on October 3rd. The complaint alleged Fleming gave a scouting report to Jones to secure a Colorado State-competitive advantage and allegedly established a plan to create Jones with a clear track to spike the face slushes during the competition.
The letter stated that the conference’s study included interviews with coaches and student athletes in both San Jose State and Colorado State. However, the letter did not specifically indicate which individuals had been interviewed. The conference refused to give details of the people who had been interviewed when asked by Pakinomist Digital.
Slusser’s lawyer, Bill Bock, later made a statement to Pakinomist Digital, which insisted that the investigation had been “infected with bias.”
“Because MWC’s investigation was inadequate, and anything but thorough, and because MWC’s close letter is filled with errors, the undersigned emits this disgust and requires MWC to release immediately and publicly: (1) The investigative report prepared by its investigator (s) and ( 2) All documents associated with MWC’s claimed ‘thorough investigation’ and which MWC’s decision not to continue was further based on, “the Bock statement read.
San Jose State is also now under investigation by President Donald Trump’s Department of Education to determine if the violations of title IX took place during Fleming’s tenure on the volleyball team.
San José State University President Cynthia Teniantte-Matson has told Pakinomist Digital that the university is prepared to cooperate in the investigation.
Pakinomist Digital has reached San Jose State to inquire about a statement of the incident involving Batie-Smoose’s home.
