On February 15th at 11:55 AM, Rancho San Diego Sheriff's Deputies responded to a call of an adult male who had just been shot at a residence in the 15700 block of Lyons Valley Rd. in the unincorporated area of Jamul.
Deputies arrived at the scene and located the victim outside of the residence. Deputies safely evacuated the victim from the property and transferred him to nearby paramedics who then transported the victim to the hospital where he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound. Deputies surrounded the residence, believing the shooting suspect, a 64-year-old male, was still located inside and armed with a gun. Deputies made multiple loudspeaker announcements advising the suspect to exit the residence and surrender to deputies, which he refused to do.
Based on the suspect's unwillingness to cooperate with patrol deputies and the belief that he was still armed with a gun that he had already used to shoot the victim, the Sheriff's Crisis Negotiations Team (CNT) and Special Enforcement Detail (SED) were requested to respond to the scene in an attempt to safely resolve the incident. Once on scene, the Crisis Negotiations Team made contact with the suspect via telephone and spoke with him for several hours in an attempt to get him to peacefully surrender.
After several hours of refusing to cooperate with the Crisis Negotiations Team and exit the residence, the Special Enforcement Detail used chemical agents in an attempt to safely force the armed suspect to surrender and exit the residence. The suspect still refused to exit the residence after the deployment of chemical agents and was later located deceased in the attic of the residence at approximately 04:27 AM on February 16th. It appeared the armed suspect had suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The victim in this case is in stable condition at the hospital and his injuries do not appear to be life-threatening. The follow-up investigation in this case is being handled by the Rancho San Diego Station Detective Unit.
Source of Information: Lt. Joel Stranger, Rancho San Diego Station
joel.stranger@sdsheriff.org / (619) 660-7027
