A San Diego police officer fatally shot an ax-wielding man who had reportedly vandalized a trolley before approaching the officer in the Morena area Wednesday afternoon, a sheriff\u2019s homicide lieutenant said.<\/p>\n
The incident started with a report from trolley officials that a man with an ax was vandalizing a trolley at the Linda Vista Road station near Morena Boulevard about 3:20 p.m., sheriff\u2019s Lt. Juan Marquez said. The Sheriff\u2019s Office investigates shootings by San Diego police officers as part of a countywide agreement to prevent agencies from investigating themselves.<\/p>\n
Police scoured the area looking for a suspect. An officer in a patrol vehicle located a man with an ax about 3:35 p.m. on Friars Road near the Interstate 5 overpass, Marquez said in an interview with freelance photographer Ed Baier, who provided the video footage to local media outlets. The overpass runs over the San Diego River in that area.<\/p>\n
Marquez said the officer got out of his vehicle to make contact with the man.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe individual was armed with an ax and approached the officer,\u201d Marquez said.<\/p>\n
The officer opened fire, shooting \u201cmultiple rounds\u201d and striking the man, he said. The lieutenant said the officer administered life-saving measures, but the man died at the scene about 4:10 p.m.<\/p>\n
The officer was not injured in the incident, Marquez said.<\/p>\n
Authorities did not release the names of those involved.<\/p>\n
It is not clear what damage the trolley may have sustained. Marquez said the vehicle had been in service and was gone by the time police arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n
Friars Road was closed as authorities investigated the shooting.<\/p>\n
Staff writer Alexandra Mendoza contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego police officer fatally shot an ax-wielding man who had reportedly vandalized a trolley before approaching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,23,29926,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-503845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-morena","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503845","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=503845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}