CAJW
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Yesterday my son was doing some survey work a couple of miles from this mayhem in a little town named Minkler which is a dozen or so miles east of Fresno on Hwy 180. LEO's were flying by him at break neck speeds and he knew something really bad was going down. Here's the story, but please put these LEO's families in your prayers.
Date: Friday Feb. 26, 2010 6:36 AM ET
SANGER, Calif. — A gunman opened fire Thursday on authorities who tried to serve search warrants at his mobile home in Central California, killing one law enforcement officer and wounding two others before barricading himself in the residence during a raging gunbattle that also left him dead.
One wounded police officer is not expected to survive.
Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said authorities used a robot equipped with cameras to confirm the suspect's death Thursday evening following a tense, daylong standoff outside the home in Minkler, a tiny village in a rural section of the San Joaquin Valley.
It was not immediately clear if his injuries were self-inflicted or suffered as he exchanged hundreds of bullets with officers, Dyer said. Authorities need to fingerprint the man to confirm his identity before releasing his name, he said.
About an hour before the robot was sent in, a woman who was inside the home voluntarily came out with a dog spattered in blood, according to Dyer. Her relationship to the gunman was not immediately known and detectives were interviewing her Thursday night, Dyer said.
The bloodshed started just before 10 a.m. local time when two Fresno County Sheriff's deputies and a state fire official arrived at the mobile home to serve the warrants connected to a series of arsons and a Tuesday shooting allegedly involving the gunman, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said.
Mary Novack, who runs a convenience store across the highway, said authorities used a loudspeaker to repeatedly order someone inside to surrender, then smashed down the door.
She saw deputies go inside before hearing gunfire.
She later saw an officer on the ground.
Both deputies were shot, one fatally, Mims said. The surviving Fresno County deputy was in stable condition.
A police officer from the nearby city of Reedley was critically wounded while responding to a call for backup, Mims said.
The names of the deputies and officer were not immediately released. Reedley City Manager Rocky Rogers said the wounded officer, who he identified as Javier Bejar, was on life support and not expected to recover.
Rogers said Bejar, who had two years on the police force, was being kept alive so that his family can pay their last respects.
Mims said the shooter was suspected in a recent series of suspicious fires involving sheds and other outbuildings and of randomly firing a weapon from his home on Tuesday.
Authorities had no contact with the suspect after Thursday's gun battle, she said.
Minkler, which has a population of about 30 people, is located along the scenic highway to Kings Canyon National Park.
Novack said a man and a woman lived in the mobile home located on sprawling rural property owned by another family in Minkler. They sometimes came to her store for cigarettes and soda, but Novack said she did not know their names.
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Date: Friday Feb. 26, 2010 6:36 AM ET
SANGER, Calif. — A gunman opened fire Thursday on authorities who tried to serve search warrants at his mobile home in Central California, killing one law enforcement officer and wounding two others before barricading himself in the residence during a raging gunbattle that also left him dead.
One wounded police officer is not expected to survive.
Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said authorities used a robot equipped with cameras to confirm the suspect's death Thursday evening following a tense, daylong standoff outside the home in Minkler, a tiny village in a rural section of the San Joaquin Valley.
It was not immediately clear if his injuries were self-inflicted or suffered as he exchanged hundreds of bullets with officers, Dyer said. Authorities need to fingerprint the man to confirm his identity before releasing his name, he said.
About an hour before the robot was sent in, a woman who was inside the home voluntarily came out with a dog spattered in blood, according to Dyer. Her relationship to the gunman was not immediately known and detectives were interviewing her Thursday night, Dyer said.
The bloodshed started just before 10 a.m. local time when two Fresno County Sheriff's deputies and a state fire official arrived at the mobile home to serve the warrants connected to a series of arsons and a Tuesday shooting allegedly involving the gunman, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said.
Mary Novack, who runs a convenience store across the highway, said authorities used a loudspeaker to repeatedly order someone inside to surrender, then smashed down the door.
She saw deputies go inside before hearing gunfire.
She later saw an officer on the ground.
Both deputies were shot, one fatally, Mims said. The surviving Fresno County deputy was in stable condition.
A police officer from the nearby city of Reedley was critically wounded while responding to a call for backup, Mims said.
The names of the deputies and officer were not immediately released. Reedley City Manager Rocky Rogers said the wounded officer, who he identified as Javier Bejar, was on life support and not expected to recover.
Rogers said Bejar, who had two years on the police force, was being kept alive so that his family can pay their last respects.
Mims said the shooter was suspected in a recent series of suspicious fires involving sheds and other outbuildings and of randomly firing a weapon from his home on Tuesday.
Authorities had no contact with the suspect after Thursday's gun battle, she said.
Minkler, which has a population of about 30 people, is located along the scenic highway to Kings Canyon National Park.
Novack said a man and a woman lived in the mobile home located on sprawling rural property owned by another family in Minkler. They sometimes came to her store for cigarettes and soda, but Novack said she did not know their names.
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