{"id":78524,"date":"2025-12-02T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78524\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:32:08","slug":"at-least-one-sacramento-deputy-involved-in-i-5-shooting-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78524\/","title":{"rendered":"At least one Sacramento deputy involved in I-5 shooting, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Suspect is down’ after freeway shooting involving Sacramento deputies, officials say<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 10:20 AM PST Dec 2, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA freeway shooting involving at least one deputy with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office happened Tuesday morning, the agency said. Traffic is now shut down in the area.Sgt. Amar Gandhi, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, said the shooting happened along Interstate 5 near Thornton Road in San Joaquin County just south of Highway 12. Gandhi said personnel with the sheriff’s office are involved, but he is not sure if personnel from other agencies are involved.All deputies are OK, and the “suspect is down” with unknown injuries.Caltrans said I-5 is closed to southbound traffic at the Highway 12 junction in San Joaquin County due to law enforcement activity.This is a developing story. Stay with KCRA 3 as we work to gather more information.See news happening? Send us your photos or videos if it\u2019s safe to do so at kcra.com\/upload.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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A freeway shooting involving at least one deputy with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office happened Tuesday morning, the agency said. Traffic is now shut down in the area.<\/p>\n

Sgt. Amar Gandhi, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, said the shooting happened along Interstate 5 near Thornton Road in San Joaquin County just south of Highway 12. Gandhi said personnel with the sheriff’s office are involved, but he is not sure if personnel from other agencies are involved.<\/p>\n

All deputies are OK, and the “suspect is down” with unknown injuries.<\/p>\n

Caltrans said I-5 is closed to southbound traffic at the Highway 12 junction in San Joaquin County due to law enforcement activity.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Stay with KCRA 3 as we work to gather more information.<\/p>\n

See news happening? Send us your photos or videos if it\u2019s safe to do so at kcra.com\/upload<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Suspect is down’ after freeway shooting involving Sacramento deputies, officials say Updated: 10:20 AM PST Dec 2, 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4742,8186,2820,3047,167,23615,2516,5151,473,671,346,3335,45275,121,357,6771,45273,123,122,2637,135,669,45274,2734],"class_list":["post-78524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-agency","tag-amar-gandhi","tag-app","tag-com","tag-deputy","tag-download","tag-freeway-shooting","tag-interstate-5","tag-kcra","tag-more-coverage","tag-office","tag-official","tag-personnel","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-deputy","tag-sacramento-deputy-shooting","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sheriff","tag-shooting","tag-subscribe","tag-thornton-road","tag-top-california-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78524","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=78524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}