{"id":105860,"date":"2025-12-23T04:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/105860\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T04:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:36:08","slug":"man-found-dead-after-suspected-shot-fired-at-sd-officers-in-normal-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/105860\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead after suspected shot fired at SD officers in Normal Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Normal-Heights.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Normal-Heights.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360692\"  \/><\/a>A heavy police presence during Monday\u2019s SWAT standoff in Normal Heights. (Photo by Adrian Childress\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>A man suspected of firing a shot at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego police<\/a> officers who responded to his call for help in Normal Heights was found dead inside his home Monday, according to law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p>Police were called around 3:40 p.m. Monday to a house in the 4400 block of 40th Street, near Interstate 5, after a man requested help, said acting Sgt. Colin Steinbroner of the SDPD Media Services Unit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers responded to a mental health-distress call placed by the resident on himself,\u201d Steinbroner said. \u201cOfficers approached the residence and knocked on the front door. They heard what they believed to be a gunshot, though they did not know where the round went.<\/p>\n<p>The officers withdrew safely and requested additional resources, treating the man as a barricaded suspect. A SWAT team was called to the scene to attempt to communicate with him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Normal-Heights-2.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Normal-Heights-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360694\"  \/><\/a>Officers heard a suspected shot when they responded for help. (Photo by Adrian Childress\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>Police later located the man dead inside the residence. No officers were injured and the circumstances surrounding the man\u2019s death were under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>City News Service contributed to this article. <\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heavy police presence during Monday\u2019s SWAT standoff in Normal Heights. (Photo by Adrian Childress\/Times of San Diego)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[348,35862,74,76,75,9862,57199,57200,57201],"class_list":["post-105860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-investigation","tag-normal-heights","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police-department","tag-shot-fired","tag-suspect-dead","tag-swat-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}