{"id":105975,"date":"2025-12-23T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/105975\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:30:08","slug":"man-fatally-shot-himself-causing-officers-to-take-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/105975\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fatally shot himself, causing officers to take cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego police officers responding to a requested welfare check were walking up to the front door of a home in Normal Heights when a man fatally turned a gun on himself, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was first reported around 3:30 p.m. when officers received a call from a man saying he was experiencing medical distress at a home on 40th Street near Meade Avenue, Officer Colin Steinbroner said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"....Police officers are on scene at 39th street and Meade Ave after a shot fire is reported at Normal Heights community on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025 in San Diego, CA. (Michael Ho \/ For The San Diego Union-Tribune)\" width=\"3936\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SUT-L-SDPD-SWAT103.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9559244\" \/>A call for a welfare check Monday turned into a SWAT incident at 39th Street and Meade Avenue. (Michael Ho \/ For The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived and approached the front door of the home, they reportedly heard a gunshot inside the house, Steinbroner said. No officers were struck or injured by the round, but they pulled back and requested backup.<\/p>\n<p>A SWAT team was requested because officers believe the armed suspect had barricaded himself inside a residence and possibly fired the shot at them, Steinbroner said. After several hours of attempting to contact the person inside the home, officers found a way to see inside the house and saw the man down.<\/p>\n<p>He suffered one gunshot wound to the chest and died before he could be taken to a hospital, Steinbroner said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers began breaking down the perimeter around 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego police officers responding to a requested welfare check were walking up to the front door of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,23,100,35862,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-105975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-normal-heights","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105975","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=105975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}