{"id":260154,"date":"2026-04-09T23:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:29:07","slug":"california-deputy-killed-in-shooting-while-serving-eviction-notice-in-porterville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260154\/","title":{"rendered":"California deputy killed in shooting while serving eviction notice in Porterville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California sheriff&#8217;s deputy was shot and killed on Thursday while serving an eviction notice in Porterville, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tulare County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said deputies were in the area of Newcomb and Grand avenues around 10:20 a.m. when 60-year-old David Morales allegedly opened fire, striking one deputy.<\/p>\n<p>The wounded deputy was taken to a local hospital, where he later died. Officials have not yet released the name of the deputy.  <\/p>\n<p>Morales was able to flee the area and remains outstanding, and officials said shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday that shots were still being fired in the area. A large law enforcement presence was in the area searching for Morales.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Mike Boudreaux has urged residents in the area to shelter in place. Schools in the area were also placed on lockdown as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California sheriff&#8217;s deputy was shot and killed on Thursday while serving an eviction notice in Porterville, officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,609],"class_list":{"0":"post-260154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-police-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260154","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=260154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}