A 31-year-old man who was completely nude while walking through a Yuba City neighborhood Thursday morning remains hospitalized after allegedly resisting arrest and using a shovel to fight officers before being shot twice.
Two Yuba City police officers have been placed on administrative leave during the shooting investigation, which the Yuba Sutter Regional Officer-Involved Shooting Team is leading with help from the California Department of Justice, according to a Yuba City Police Department statement. No officers were seriously hurt in the encounter about 9:15 a.m.
Yuba City police said its officers responded to reports of a man walking completely naked in a neighborhood near Bogue Road at after Guillermo Figueroa had allegedly assaulted a family member at a nearby home. Before police found the suspect, he had allegedly rammed the front door of another home, shattering a door window, authorities said.
Figueroa fled on foot when officers approached him, leading to a chase. Police said the man resisted arrest as the officers tried to detain him in the 1800 block of Rapid Falls Drive. The officers deployed their Taser guns to stun the man several times before using their batons to hit the man, authorities said, as they failed to subdue him.
Figueroa allegedly tried hitting the officers with a shovel when one of the officers shot the man twice in the torso.
The officers rendered medical aid to the man until emergency responders arrived and took Figueroa to a hospital. As of Friday, he remained in critical condition, authorities said.
The family member he allegedly assaulted also was hospitalized and later released, and officers were treated for minor injuries at the scene, police said.
Under state law, the Police Department has 30 days from the time of the incident to release body-worn video footage as it continues the investigation.
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Jake Goodrick covers Sutter County for The Sacramento Bee as part of the California Local News Fellowship Program through UC Berkeley. He previously reported and edited for the Gillette News Record in northeast Wyoming.