Posted on 06/11/2020 7:42:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A sheriff’s deputy was shot Wednesday when a man opened fire outside a police station in Paso Robles, California, authorities said.
“We feel that this was an ambush that he planned,” San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said. “He intended for officers to come out of the police department and to assault them.”
The Sheriff’s Department identified the suspect at 26-year-old Mason James Lira in a news release Wednesday night. He is from the Monterey area and is considered armed and dangerous, the release said.
Officials conducted a widespread search of the downtown Paso Robles area earlier Wednesday, but Lira was not located and the manhunt is still ongoing.
Lira allegedly began firing at police cars shortly after 3 a.m. (local time) as they entered the downtown area and at the station, Parkinson said.
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“But I didn’t shoot the Deputy!”
Ah, but he (allegedly) did.
And they say it is a Capital Offense.
It’s Paso Robles. He couldn’t have gone very far.
Release the hounds....
He is walking east toward The Pinnacles...
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