From the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news at 6. And Early Morning chase in the north bay, leaving for sheriffs deputies injured. One of them critically. Meanwhile, the man who led that chase is dead as investigation into what exactly happened in this quiet part of santa rosa. Actually, Sonoma County continues. Thanks for joining us for kron for news at 6. Im ken wayne and im noelle bellow. The man who was killed allegedly stopped mid chase. To shoot at officers with a rifle kron fours. Rob nesbitt has the latest. The shooting between the gunman in the sheriffs deputies ended in a crash behind me. You can see the fence that the suspect drove his vehicle into. Police are trying to figure out if it was the crash or the shooting that killed the suspect. Flashing blue lights lit up several streets in west santa rosa monday morning. According to the Sonoma County sheriffs office, deputies responded to reports of a man holding a rifle on todd road when they arrived on
Streets calling for a ceasefire. The war in the middle east. Were also following breaking news in santa rosa after 4 deputies have been injured in the shooting. We go live there with the latest details. From the bay news station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waldman. Were going to start with some breaking news after for Sonoma County deputies were injured in a shooting with a gunman earlier this morning in santa rosa. Several streets are still shut down during this investigation. Well go live now to kron 4 Charles Clifford, who is in santa rosa with the latest details here. Charles, walk us through what has happened so far well, right now im standing along todd road just to the west of highway 101 of the Highway Patrol Sonoma County are Sonoma County sheriffs santa rosa pd have this entire area closed down as they investigate this case. And theyve been here since early this morning. According to the Sonoma County Sheri
Reports of a man brandishing a knife. They try to deal with that situation at that location. But they say the man jumped into a car, took off that resulted in a pursuit. And during the pursuit, they say the man got out fired shots at deputies hitting for them before hopping back into his car. Taking off from the scene. But not before a sheriffs deputies returned fire on him. He ultimately crashed and died. They dont know if he died from gunfire or because he crashed his car and hit say, for example, a poll thats still part of the investigation, whether he was hit or not by the deputies. As pfar as the deputies, we do know that one was hit in the head critical but stable condition. 3 others, one was hit in the hand. 2 others in the leg at this particular point. The suspects name not being released to the public, but this area stony point road, you can see, as i mentioned, more officers arriving to the scene. Heres another one for you. Theyre not allowing anybody to go beyond belleview a
Joining us here on kron for news at 5. Im noelle bellow day and im grant lotus. The shooting happened after a police chase and a crash. This was shortly after midnight called for us. Rob nesbitt has details now from santa rosa. Flashing blue lights lit up several streets in west santa rosa monday morning. According to the Sonoma County sheriffs office, deputies responded to reports of a man holding a rifle on todd road when they arrived on scene just after midnight. The suspect fled in a vehicle at a pursuit occurred. Gunfire was exchanged between the suspect and police injuring 4 deputies. According to sheriff ed ian groom to have injuries to their hands. And one was shot in the leg and one received a head injury. Our deputy with a head injury is in critical but stable condition after shooting at police. The gunman drove away and crashed his vehicle in stony point road and was pronounced dead at the scene. Timothy dimmick lives by where the crash occurred. It was bad. I woke up to one
If you have to leave your house, youre allowed to do that but not allowed to return because this is a crime scene. We will zoom as far as we possibly can from our location on the other side is todd. This is where they believe the car crash with the suspect inside. Of course, they dont know if he died because of gunfire from the 4 deputies or because of the crash. Thats still part of the investigation. We do know this all went down at around 12, 10 in the morning when deputies got a call of a man brandishing a rifle near this location, they get there. They try to deal with it and they say the man then jumps into a car takes off. And then during the pursuit, he actually pulls over and investigators say he shot at 4 deputies who returned fire on him. He hops back into his car takes off from the scene and ultimately crashes but not before hitting 4 deputies. Heres the breakdown. One deputy was shot in the head, rushed to the hospital, but we understand in critical but stable condition. The