DEPUTY KILLS MOTORIST; MAN BRANDISHED PAINT-BALL GUN AT END OF CHASE THROUGH T.O.Byline: Kevin F. Sherry Daily News Staff Writer A 26-year-old Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. motorist who led a sheriff's deputy on a brief chase was shot and killed early Thursday after he jumped out of his car and pointed a realistic-looking paintball paintball Sports medicine A sport in which marble-sized gelatin capsules filled with a nontoxic dye are shot at speeds of 300 kph/200 mph Warning: gun at the deputy, authorities said. The 3 a.m. shooting on an unlit dead-end on Sheffield Place followed a two-minute chase that began near Hillcrest hill·crest n. The summit line of a hill. Drive and the Moorpark Freeway, where the unidentified deputy tried to stop Derek Brandon Myers for a traffic violation. But Myers, a Thousand Oaks resident, took off, driving through a residential neighborhood until his 1988 Ford Thunderbird The Ford Thunderbird was a car manufactured in the United States by the Ford Motor Company. It entered production for the 1955 Ford Thunderbird model year as a two-seater sporty car but, unlike the similar Chevrolet Corvette, the Thunderbird was never sold as a full-blown sports jumped a curb on Sheffield, just south of Galsworthy Street, and came to rest against a cinder-block wall. Myers got out of the car holding what appeared to be a black, pistol-gripped shotgun, officials said. Myers approached the patrol car while the deputy was still in the car. The deputy then exited the car and opened fire, said Ed Tumbleson, a spokesman for the Ventura County Sheriff's Department The Ventura County Sheriff's Department (VCSD) provides law enforcement for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, USA, as well as several cities within the county. The cities that VCSD serves are Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, and Thousand Oaks. . ``The officer was in fear for his safety and fired first,'' said Tumbleson. The deputy then took a position of cover and ordered Myers to drop his weapon, officials said. He fired additional shots when Myers did not comply. Myers was hit in the neck, chest and leg, officials said. He was taken by ambulance to Los Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
Investigators later learned that the weapon that Myers pointed at the deputy was a paintball gun used for recreation. The 23-inch, black, pistol-gripped, long-barreled paintball gun resembles an actual shotgun, officials said. Myers' tan Thunderbird thunderbird In North American Indian mythology, a powerful spirit in the form of a bird that watered the earth and made vegetation grow. Lightning was believed to flash from its eyes or beak, and the beating of its wings was thought to represent rolling thunder. was registered to an address on Los Robles Road. Friends who answered the door of the apartment said they had been in touch with Myers' family, but declined to comment. The sound of gunfire awoke a·woke v. A past tense of awake. awoke Verb a past tense and (now rare or dialectal) past participle of awake Janice Guerrero, who went outside to see what caused the commotion just over her backyard fence. She said she heard the deputy say, ``Get your hands away from the gun. Put your hands on your head.'' ``He kept saying that over and over again,'' Guerrero said. Guerrero then went back inside her house. ``After I heard they had guns, I said, I'm out of here,'' she said. Investigators spent Thursday morning combing combing, process that follows carding in the preparation of fibers for spinning, lays the fibers parallel, and removes noils (short fibers). The modern combing machine is a specialized carding machine. the scene, where yellow numbered placards marked where the deputy's spent bullet casings Ca´sings n. pl. 1. Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. had landed. Al Guerrero, Janice's husband, said he saw what appeared to be a long gun, such as a shotgun or a rifle, lying next to Myers' Thunderbird. The deputy, who was unharmed, has been with the Sheriff's Department for four or five years, Tumbleson said. He was placed on paid administrative leave, which is typical in officer-involved shootings. Additionally, the case will be turned over to the District Attorney's Office to determine whether the shooting was justified, officials said. The investigation could take up to six months to complete. This was the second officer-involved shooting this year in Thousand Oaks, which is ranked by the FBI as the nation's second-safest large city. On Feb. 7, deputies responding to a domestic violence call shot Walter Brazenor, 50, in the arm and body after he threatened them with two knives. He was hospitalized for treatment of four gunshot wounds, then released. Brazenor died March 25, but toxicology toxicology, study of poisons, or toxins, from the standpoint of detection, isolation, identification, and determination of their effects on the human body. Toxicology may be considered the branch of pharmacology devoted to the study of the poisonous effects of drugs. tests still are pending to determine the cause of death and whether it was related to his wounds. Daily News Staff Writer Don Holland contributed to this story. CAPTION(S): Photo, Map PHOTO (Color) (Ran in Conejo Edition only) A car involved in Thursday morning's fatal shooting is towed from Sheffield Place. Evan Yee/Daily News MAP: (Ran in Conejo Edition only) Fatal shooting route |
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