The California Highway Patrol is investigating a shooting involving officers after a multi-agency pursuit that began in Buena Park and ended in Oceanside on Interstate 5 early Saturday, causing a full shutdown of the freeway that lasted hours.<\/p>\n
Buena Park police officers attempted to stop a gray 2005 Cadillac CTS for a traffic violation at about 12:47 a.m. Saturday near the intersection of La Palma Avenue and San Marino Drive, but the driver took off, prompting officers to begin a pursuit, according to the Buena Park Police Department and the CHP.<\/p>\n
Officers turned the pursuit over to the CHP at 1:05 a.m., but kept their K-9 Unit involved in the chase at the request of the CHP, BPPD Sgt. Martin Tomsick told City News Service.<\/p>\n
The multi-county pursuit traversed several freeways for more than an hour before entering the Oceanside CHP jurisdiction, where officers used legal intervention to stop the suspect vehicle on southbound I-5, according to CHP Sgt. Omar Morales.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver, armed with a handgun, exited the vehicle and fled on foot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
With a full freeway closure in place for several hours, the suspect remained in a large brush area on the freeway median between the northbound and southbound lanes of I-5, north of Harbor Drive, according to Morales. Despite repeated commands from CHP and Buena Park PD officers, the suspect refused to surrender and remained uncooperative, the CHP said.<\/p>\n
The San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office dispatched aerial drones at 2:15 a.m. to assist with finding the suspect, according to SDSO Lt. Sean Gallagher.<\/p>\n
Tomsick said a BPPD K-9 officer and at least one CHP officer fired their weapons at the suspect.<\/p>\n
No officers were injured in the shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect was taken into custody at approximately 7:40 a.m. and transported to a local hospital for treatment of major injuries,\u201d Morales continued. \u201cDuring their investigation, officers recovered an unserialized firearm, commonly referred to as a ghost gun, where the suspect was taken into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n
I-5 was closed in both directions and a Sigalert was issued shortly after 2:30 a.m. Saturday between Harbor Drive in Oceanside and Christianitos Road in San Clemente, according to the CHP.<\/p>\n
All northbound and southbound lanes on I-5 through Camp Pendleton were opened by late afternoon Saturday.<\/p>\n
The CHP Border Division Major Crimes Unit is investigating the shooting. Anyone who witnessed the incident was asked to contact CHP Border Division at 858-944-6300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California Highway Patrol is investigating a shooting involving officers after a multi-agency pursuit that began in Buena…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,10688,14483,3282,1833,2592,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-66756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-buena","12":"tag-investigating","13":"tag-oceanside","14":"tag-park","15":"tag-pursuit","16":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66756","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=66756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}