A 56-year-old man has died after he allegedly tried to carjack a tree-trimming truck while it was moving and the driver successfully fought him off in San Marcos on Saturday, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred when the man \u2014 allegedly armed with a knife \u2014 jumped onto the running board of a Freightliner tree\u2011trimming truck in an attempt to forcibly take the vehicle on Pacific Street near Grand Avenue around 5:40 a.m., said sheriff\u2019s Lt. Juan Marquez.<\/p>\n
Due to either the window or door being open, the driver of the truck then got into a fight with the carjacker, Marquez said. At some point, the man fell off the side of the truck and into the roadway.<\/p>\n
The driver immediately called 911, and paramedics arrived, according to Marquez. They found the suspect lying in the street with a serious head injury.<\/p>\n
He was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday. He was identified as Mark Douglas Heninger, a San Diego County resident, Marquez said.<\/p>\n
The driver stayed at the scene and spoke with investigators. He suffered minor injuries but declined medical attention.<\/p>\n
Marquez said it appears Heninger was not run over or struck by the truck, but investigators are waiting on the county Medical Examiner\u2019s Office to determine the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe circumstances and motive surrounding the incident remain under investigation,\u201d Marquez said in the release.<\/p>\n
Homicide detectives are continuing to gather video surveillance and review footage they have already received, Marquez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 56-year-old man has died after he allegedly tried to carjack a tree-trimming truck while it was moving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,138,1338,100,2480],"class_list":["post-409246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-morning-wire","tag-news","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409246","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=409246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}