{"id":260687,"date":"2026-04-10T06:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:26:17","slug":"terrifying-moments-caught-on-camera-during-deputy-involved-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260687\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying moments caught on camera during deputy-involved shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTERVILLE, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Tulare County sheriff&#8217;s deputy was <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/officer-involved-shooting-in-porterville-residents-asked-to-stay-away-police-suspect-injuries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">killed in the line of duty on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies were serving an eviction notice when the suspect, identified as David Morales, started shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened around 10:20 a.m. in the area of Newcomb and Grand in Porterville.<\/p>\n<p>While all the shooting was happening, a neighbor pulled out his phone and started recording.<\/p>\n<p><p>The moment shots were fired at deputies in Porterville. (Courtesy: Juan Guerrero)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Juan Guerrero captured the sound of machine gun fire right in front of his house.<\/p>\n<p>SWAT later brought in a Bearcat and escorted people from the neighborhood while the suspect was still barricaded in a nearby home.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy who was killed responded to the call for help and took a bullet from a high-powered rifle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/deputy-involved-shooting-erupts-as-warrant-is-served-cellphone-video-captures-gunfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux<\/a> said what started out as a civil matter is now a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff said the deputy, whom he did not identify, died at the hospital at 11:20 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTERVILLE, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Tulare County sheriff&#8217;s deputy was killed in the line of duty on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-260687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260687","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=260687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}