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Title: Man accused of ambushing officers killed in California police shootout
Source:
The Guardian
URL Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news ... sive-police-hunt-in-california
Published: Jun 25, 2020
Author: AP
Post Date: 2020-06-25 01:28:41 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 1163
Comments: 8
Man accused of ambushing officers
killed in California police shootoutA man suspected of ambushing and shooting a California sheriff’s deputy was killed on Thursday after a shootout with police, authorities said.
Three officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries on Thursday afternoon, a day after the alleged ambush in Paso Robles.
A spokesman for the San Luis Obispo sheriff confirmed the death of Mason James Lira, 26. Details of the circumstances around his death were not immediately available.
Officers from the Arroyo Grande police department, California highway patrol and Kings County sheriff’s office were wounded.
Lira is accused of ambushing and seriously injuring a San Luis Obispo sheriff’s deputy and killing a homeless man on Wednesday. The attacks set off a huge manhunt on the central California coast that ended in the shootout.
At 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. Officials did not immediately say how many other officers had been injured or how serious their wounds were.
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. The deputy suffered serious injuries.
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. He appeared to be a homeless man who had been camping out overnight. Police believe Lira was responsible for the killing.
Jose Lira said his son had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, Asperger’s syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. 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.
“He lives in a fantasy world,” Jose Lira said. “He doesn’t have a beef with the police.”
Police say Lira opened fire on the police station around 4am Wednesday. Two sheriff’s deputies heard gunshots and responded but did not see the attacker until they were outside their patrol car and under fire. Nicholas Dreyfus, 28, was hit in the face and underwent surgery.
The search intensified on Thursday in Paso Robles, a tourist destination in California’s central coast wine region. Police closed parts of a freeway and used flash-bangs while searching apartments.
Jose Lira said he had last spoken to his son about two months ago, when his son had threatened him and became belligerent.
“I slept with a gun loaded under my pillow last night,” he said. “I’m afraid of him, too.”
The attack came just five days after law enforcement officers were ambushed farther north in the community of Ben Lomond. There is no indication the shootings are related.
Damon Gutzwiller, 38, a Santa Cruz sheriff’s sergeant, was killed and another deputy injured on Saturday in an attack by an air force sergeant armed with homemade bombs, an AR-15 rifle and other weapons, authorities said. Sheriff Jim Hart said the suspect, Steven Carrillo, was intent on killing officers.
Carrillo, 32, was arrested and the FBI is investigating whether he has links to the killing of a federal security officer outside the US courthouse in Oakland during a protest against police brutality on 29 May. A white van was spotted at both attacks.
Prosecutors on Thursday filed 19 charges against Carrillo, who faces life in prison if convicted.
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Jose Lira said his son had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, Asperger’s syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Many people have schizophrenia, Asperger’s syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and don't ambush cops.
#2. To: misterwhite, Deckard, All (#1)
Jose Lira said his son had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, Asperger’s syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Many people have schizophrenia, Asperger’s syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and don't ambush cops.
Yea …
But with their mental illness, you then saturate their minds over and over with deeply involved hate-cop rhetoric as seen on TV and found in all form of social media – including chit-chat forums – you then have factors that can easily precipitate such aggressive behavior.
You think so, Deckard?
There is now robust evidence demonstrating that both men and women with schizophrenia1 are at elevated risk when compared to the general population to be convicted of non-violent criminal offences, at higher risk to be convicted of violent criminal offences, and at even higher risk to be convicted of homicide ( Wallace et al. 2004).
#3. To: Gatlin (#2) (Edited)
But with their mental illness, you then saturate their minds over and over with deeply involved hate-cop rhetoric as seen on TV and found in all form of social media – including chit-chat forums
You drastically overstate the influence my posts or this forum, or even the internet for that matter. I am however flattered that you sincerely believe my posts are influential.
So, you believe that Mason James Lira who "has been been diagnosed with schizophrenia, Asperger’s syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and lives in a fantasy world where he often thought he was a special agent or a soldier" decided to go online one day and somehow magically was led to Liberty's Flame, where he read a post or article of mine about "bad cops" and decided to go on an Archer-like rampage?
Pretty much the most ridiculous thing I've seen you post snowflake.
FTR (for the record) clownboy - I do not advocate killing cops unless it is in self defense.
...you then saturate their minds over and over with deeply involved hate-cop rhetoric as seen on TV...
Which shows in particular feature that nonsense? Every cop show on TV is 99.999% pro cop.
Law and Order, NCIS, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, a slew of others.
Just where can I find these TV shows that push an allegedly anti-cop agenda?
Do I need cable to get the anti-cop network?
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
#4. To: Deckard, All (#3)
So, you believe that … STOP telling me WHAT I BELIEVE …
You are no Mind Reader.
You cannot possibly discern what I think.
#5. To: Gatlin (#4)
You cannot possibly discern what I think.
It's pretty clear your rant was addressed to me. Maybe you forgot posting this?
You think so, Deckard?
Seems like you are daring me to respond to your idiocy.
Past experience in dealing with your boot-licking submissiveness gives me a pretty good insight into what you believe, laws yesss!
For example - your insinuation that I am providing support to antifa and BLM if I don't wear a mask. I still get a chuckle out of that one.
Say - have you found all those anti-cop shows that drove Mason James Lira to kill some cops? What channel are they on?
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
#6. To: Deckard (#5)
You cannot possibly discern what I think. It's pretty clear your rant was addressed to me.
Maybe you forgot posting this?
If it had been addressed to you, then your name would have been first – Stupid
You still cannot possibly discern what I think.
#7. To: Gatlin (#6) (Edited)
If it had been addressed to you, then your name would have been first
You think so, Deckard?
Yeah - that made it addressed SPECIFICALLY to ME.
Where's them dang anti-cop TV shows Tater? I can't find them nowhere.
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
#8. To: Gatlin (#6)
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If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
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