Sheriff\u2019s deputies and a college police officer shot and killed a passenger who authorities said picked up a gun and refused to drop it during a San Marcos traffic stop Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The incident started shortly after 9 p.m. when a San Marcos-based deputy pulled over a red Hyundai Sonata for an unspecified vehicle violation, San Diego police Homicide Acting Lt. Christopher Leahy said in a news release Thursday. San Diego police are investigating under a countywide agreement designed to prevent policing agencies from investigating themselves following a shooting.<\/p>\n
According to Leahy, the 21-year-old woman driving the sedan pulled over on North Twin Oaks Valley Road near West Borden Road, which is less than a mile north of state Route 78. With her was a 33-year-old man in the front passenger\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n
A check of the car\u2019s license plate and vehicle identification number appeared inconsistent with Department of Motor Vehicles registration records, Leahy said. Additionally, the deputy spotted damage to the steering column, which Leahy said suggested the sedan could have been stolen.<\/p>\n
The deputy asked for backup, and several deputies and a Palomar College police officer arrived to assist.<\/p>\n
As they arrived, the passenger \u201cabruptly rolled up his window and ignored commands to keep it down,\u201d then reached for the floorboard and armed himself with a semiautomatic pistol, Leahy said. He said the man did not comply with repeated commands to drop it.<\/p>\n
The driver of the sedan was able to get out of the vehicle, and deputies \u201cescorted her to safety,\u201d Leahy said.<\/p>\n
Leahy said the passenger continued to ignore commands and at some point \u201cbegan to raise the firearm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn response, five deputies and one Palomar College Police Officer discharged their weapons, striking the passenger,\u201d Leahy said.<\/p>\n
The passenger died at the scene. His name was not released, pending his family\u2019s notification of his death.<\/p>\n
The vehicle itself was collected as potential evidence, Leahy said, and detectives are working to determine whether the car had been stolen.<\/p>\n
Leahy said cameras worn by law enforcement officers at the scene recorded the traffic stop and the ensuing encounter and shooting. Investigators were still reviewing the footage as of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
Under California law, law enforcement agencies have 45 days to release footage of the encounter, unless doing so would impede an investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheriff\u2019s deputies and a college police officer shot and killed a passenger who authorities said picked up a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,23,100,3054,74,84,76,75,85,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-185025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-north-county","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-county","16":"tag-san-diego-headlines","17":"tag-san-diego-news","18":"tag-san-marcos","19":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185025","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=185025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}