PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 A man shot and killed a central California sheriff\u2019s deputy Thursday morning while authorities were serving an eviction notice and hours later he remained barricaded inside the home, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Tulare County deputies were serving an eviction notice at a home in Porterville when a 60-year-old man opened fire on them, the department wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n
Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said at an afternoon news conference that SWAT teams were clearing nearby homes and the situation remained extremely dangerous. Residents were urged to shelter in place and nearby schools were on lockdown.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the man is still barricaded inside the home and believed to be armed with a rifle, news station KFSN reported. Porterville is located about 150 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the state\u2019s Central Valley.<\/p>\n
Bystander video shot from a driveway and posted by the Visalia Times-Delta shows several armed deputies crouched on the ground in the roadway when a series of shots ring out and some of the deputies run away. The gunman cannot be seen from the video. Additional video shows someone being carried into an emergency medical vehicle.<\/p>\n
Boudreaux said the man had failed to pay rent for 35 days and had been expecting law enforcement to arrive to serve a final notice for eviction. Boudreaux said he \u201claid in wait\u201d and immediately shot at officers when they arrived.<\/p>\n
The deputy that was shot was part of a group of officers that arrived to help after gunfire began, Boudreaux said. He was taken to a hospital where he died.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is senseless,\u201d Boudreaux said.<\/p>\n
Miguel Ibarra\u2019s 82-year-old mother lives across the street from the gunman and was among residents evacuated due to the barricade. Ibarra, who lives in Orange County, said it was surreal to see his parents\u2019 house on TV in what is normally a quiet, boring neighborhood. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe police did a really good job keeping us informed and keeping us in the know of what\u2019s going on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 A man shot and killed a central California sheriff\u2019s deputy Thursday morning while authorities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27902,5167,7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-260350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-ap-u-s-news","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-headlines","12":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260350","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=260350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}