Santa Ana police Thursday are continuing their investigation into an officer\u2019s fatal shooting of a 18-year-old man in downtown Santa Ana.<\/p>\n
Officers attempted to stop the suspect, who was driving at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, but he refused to do so, Santa Ana Police spokeswoman Natalie Garcia told City News Service.<\/p>\n
The man was identified as 18-year-old Victor Lopez of Santa Ana, according to the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Coroner\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n
A short pursuit ensued after the suspect drove way and ended when he drove into a parking garage at 450 Fourth St. The suspect then got out of his car with a handgun and after he refused commands to drop it, the officers shot him, Garcia said.<\/p>\n
Paramedics from the Orange County Fire Authority pronounced the suspect dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
A handgun was recovered at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n
Garcia said a woman whom police believe was the suspect\u2019s girlfriend and a 1-year-old baby were passengers in the vehicle and were not harmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is cooperating with the investigation,\u201d Garcia said of the suspect\u2019s girlfriend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Ana police Thursday are continuing their investigation into an officer\u2019s fatal shooting of a 18-year-old man in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,410,14913,2426,236,21777,47379,2131],"class_list":["post-155361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-fatally","tag-garage","tag-parking","tag-police","tag-santa","tag-shoot","tag-suspect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155361","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=155361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}