A bizarre and violent series of events unfolded in the Inland Empire Friday after a man opened fire on Southern California Edison workers, barricaded himself inside his home and was later fatally shot by law enforcement, authorities said.<\/p>\n
San Bernardino County sheriff\u2019s deputies were sent to the 300 block of King Street in the community of Mentone at 10:50 a.m. in response to reports that a man had fired at some utility employees while they were working along the road near his home.<\/p>\n
The workers were part of a vegetation management crew completing planned tree-trimming work, according to Edison spokesperson Kathleen Dunleavy. The workers were able to move out of harm\u2019s way after the man opened fire and were not injured, she said.<\/p>\n
By the time deputies arrived, the suspect had barricaded himself inside his home, authorities said. The Sheriff\u2019s Department dispatched a team of specialized crisis negotiators who attempted to negotiate his surrender, but the man refused to exit.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 2 p.m., authorities allege the man fired at sheriff\u2019s deputies. They returned fire, striking him.<\/p>\n
Medical personnel attempted to tend to the man, but he died from his injuries. His identity has not been released. <\/p>\n
The motivation for his behavior is under investigation by the Sheriff\u2019s Department Specialized Investigations Division.<\/p>\n
No other civilians or deputies were injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are so grateful that our team members and contractors are safe,\u201d Dunleavy said, \u201cand we really appreciate the swift response from local law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bizarre and violent series of events unfolded in the Inland Empire Friday after a man opened fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2640,6577,7,9,8,6246,167,172135,3802,1073,172136,734,1555,172137,17283,2637,427,4455],"class_list":["post-433382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-a-m","tag-authority","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-department","tag-deputy","tag-edison-employee","tag-fire","tag-home","tag-king-street","tag-law-enforcement","tag-man","tag-mentone","tag-response","tag-sheriff","tag-team","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433382","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=433382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}