{"id":134299,"date":"2026-01-15T05:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134299\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:46:06","slug":"video-captures-tense-gunfire-between-police-felon-in-balboa-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134299\/","title":{"rendered":"Video captures tense gunfire between police, felon in Balboa Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have released body-cam footage of a <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/crime\/2025\/12\/20\/fleeing-felon-shot-by-police-in-balboa-park-identified\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police shooting<\/a> that wounded a felon last month after he allegedly fired a pistol at a pursuing officer during a foot chase in Balboa Park.<\/p>\n<p>The events that led to the non-fatal exchange of gunfire began shortly before 4 p.m. on Dec. 16, when two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Police Department<\/a> officers patrolling in a cruiser near Cabrillo Bridge tried to detain Allen Baker, 54, as he rode an e-bike in the 2900 block of Balboa Drive, just east of Sixth Avenue and south of Spruce Street.<\/p>\n<p>When Baker failed to yield and rode off toward a wooded area, the lawmen pulled over, and one of them, Officer Kellan Taeatafa-De La Rosa, got out from behind the wheel of the police vehicle and sprinted after the suspect, his uniform-worn camera activated.<\/p>\n<p>During the brief chase, Baker abandoned the bicycle and fled on foot. <\/p>\n<p>Moments later, after running down a grassy hill surrounded by brushy foliage, he turned to face the approaching officer, held out a handgun front of him and fired a shot, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Taeatafa-De La Rosa, unharmed, responding by firing back, discharging five rounds at Baker, sending him crumpling to the ground. Paramedics took the suspect to a hospital for treatment of serious but non-life-threatening bullet wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The volley of gunfire caused no other injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Stills and slow-motion segments of the video recorded by the officer\u2019s body camera appear to show a cloud of gray gunpowder smoke appearing in front of Baker\u2019s hands as he apparently points his gun at the officer.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found the suspect\u2019s pistol in a patch of shrubs near where he fell after being shot, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Baker has been booked on suspicion of assault on and attempted murder of a police officer, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have released body-cam footage of a police shooting that wounded a felon last month after he allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[68582,4549,53924,68583,20303,74,76,75,9862],"class_list":["post-134299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-allen-baker","tag-balboa-park","tag-felon","tag-kellan-taeatafa-de-la-rosa","tag-officer-involved-shooting","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134299","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=134299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}