Jose Lira said he had last spoken to his son about two months ago, when his son had threatened him and became belligerent. Police closed parts of a freeway and used flash-bangs while searching apartments. The search intensified on Thursday in Paso Robles, a tourist destination in California’s central coast wine region. Nicholas Dreyfus, 28, was hit in the face and underwent surgery. Two sheriff’s deputies heard gunshots and responded but did not see the attacker until they were outside their patrol car and under fire. Police say Lira opened fire on the police station around 4am Wednesday. “He doesn’t have a beef with the police.” “He lives in a fantasy world,” Jose Lira said. He said his son has been in and out of jail and treatment centers and often thought he is a special agent or a soldier. Jose Lira said his son had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, Asperger’s syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Police believe Lira was responsible for the killing. He appeared to be a homeless man who had been camping out overnight. While scores of officers searched for Lira, they received a report of a body near a train station and found a 58-year-old man shot to death on the tracks. The manhunt for Lira, 26, began at dawn on Wednesday, when authorities said he opened fire on the Paso Robles police station and then shot a San Luis Obispo county sheriff’s deputy in the face. Officials did not immediately say how many other officers had been injured or how serious their wounds were. Lira’s father said his son had several mental illnesses and did not take his medication.Īt least one officer was shot as police attempted to take Lira into custody during a chaotic scene in a riverbed, with residents in a two-mile radius locked down. The attacks set off a huge manhunt on the central California coast that ended in the shootout. Lira is accused of ambushing and seriously injuring a San Luis Obispo sheriff’s deputy and killing a homeless man on Wednesday. Officers from the Arroyo Grande police department, California highway patrol and Kings County sheriff’s office were wounded. Details of the circumstances around his death were not immediately available.

The sheriff's office, the District Attorney's Office and the FBI are investigating.A spokesman for the San Luis Obispo sheriff confirmed the death of Mason James Lira, 26. We are grateful to have known him and we mourn with his family.'Ī vigil for Gutzwiller will be held on Sunday. 'Words cannot express the pain we feel for Damon and his family,' Hart added, 'He was the kind of person we all hope to be. Hart said he was married with a child and was expecting another. Gutzwiller was a patrol supervisor who had worked for the sheriff's office since 2006. Hart said he would be charged with first-degree murder and other felonies. He was reported armed at the time, the sheriff's office said.Ĭarrillo was taken to the hospital for treatment and released. Hart said Carrillo was shot while being arrested after he attempted to carjack a vehicle nearby. 'We are hopeful the deputy will recover,' the sheriff's office said in a news release. The deputy was also struck by a car the suspect drove out of the driveway. The other deputy, who was not identified, was wounded by gunfire or shrapnel. LA Mayor Urged to Fire Cop Who Said Floyd's Death Was on Looters' 'Hands'.Marine Veteran Says He Was Seriously Injured After LAPD Fire Rubber Bullets.Student Justin Howell Critically Injured by Austin Police During Protests.NYPD Officer Stabbed in the Neck, Two Other Police Officers in Hospital.Gutzwiller was wounded and taken to hospital, where he died. Hart said the deputies were ambushed by gunfire and multiple improvised explosives after they got out of their vehicle. When deputies arrived, the van pulled away and the deputies followed it to Carrillo's home on Waldeberg Road in Ben Lomond.

The caller said there were guns and bomb-making materials inside, Hart said. about a suspicious van near Jamison Creek in Boulder Creek. The deputies had responded to a 911 call around 1:30 p.m. The suspect, Steven Carrillo, 38, was shot during his arrest and was being treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, Hart said. 'Damon showed up today to do his job, to keep our community safe, and his life was taken needlessly,' Hart added. Gutzwiller was a 'true hero' and 'a beloved figure here at the sheriff's office,' Hart said. Damon Gutzwiller was killed after being ambushed by gunfire and IEDs while pursuing a suspect in Ben Lomond, California.

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