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Knife-wielding suspect shot in Lake County confrontation

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[Stock photo from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page]

UPDATE Dec. 27, 2024 8:15 a.m.: New information from police scanner archives sheds light on the tense moments leading up to Friday morning’s officer-involved shooting in Nice, California.

The incident unfolded near the Marina Market on State Route 20 around 3 a.m. when a Lake County Sheriff’s deputy reported encountering a subject. What began as a routine interaction quickly escalated, according to the scanner recordings.

The deputy told dispatch the individual was armed with a knife and “coming at me,” prompting an urgent request for backup with lights and sirens. Moments later, the deputy announced, “shots fired,” followed by a report that the suspect was down with gunshot wounds to the arm and chest.

The deputy reported the subject had abdominal bleeding and he was “holding pressure” on the subject’s wound. An air ambulance was requested for the injured subject, but dispatch indicated that no air transport was available at the time.


An officer-involved shooting early Friday morning in Nice, California, has prompted a multi-agency investigation, according to a press release from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.

The incident occurred at approximately 3 a.m. in the 3600 block of Highway 20. A Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputy was involved in the shooting, which resulted in one individual being transported to a local hospital for treatment of injuries.

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Following the incident, the Lake County Critical Incident Protocol was activated, and a parallel investigation is now being conducted by the Lake County District Attorney’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office stated that more information will be released as the investigation unfolds.

Authorities have not disclosed the names of the deputy or the injured party, nor have they provided details about what led to the shooting.

The Sheriff’s Office is requesting assistance from the public. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Sergeant Jeff Mora at jeff.mora@lakecountyca.gov.

This is a developing story, and updates will be provided as additional details become available.

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27 COMMENTS

  1. Justice was served.
    Need more of this. the smallest country in Central America, El Salvador has been defined by its poverty, corruption, and gang-led violence. This has led millions of its residents to leave for safer countries, including the United States.

    In 2019, Nayib Bukele, a businessman and former mayor of the country’s capital San Salvador, was elected president with the promise of transforming the country and invigorating the stagnant economy.

    His tactics for eradicating the gang violence included establishing a continued state of emergency that has led to the incarceration of tens of thousands of suspected gang members, news reports said.

    Human rights organizations defended the rights of gangs to kill murder and rape as a basic freedom.
    93% of El Salvador voters currently disagree.

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    • F&B,
      Your statement on human rights organizations is a spurious, unsubstantiated smear tactic. Classic tyrrant move.
      If you’re so confident in statements about Bukele, then why do you need a lie to support those statements?
      Or, do you just repeat things you’ve heard without vetting them?

      Many thousands of innocents, never before involved in gangs or the drug game have been swept up and are now rotting in prison WITHOUT evidentiary testing/review, judicial relief, or access to family or attorneys.
      Where’s the liberty and justice in that?

      What if it was one of your children or family members swept up by a government task force?

      Heard of Rodrigo Duterte?
      Stalin?

      Don’t, for a second, attempt to equate my statements as advocating against a law enforcement officer’s right to defend themself against a direct threat to life and limb, and I won’t call you a fascist.

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      • NF why don’t you just shut your mouth for a change. Just give everyone a break. I don’t care what you wrote or who you were responding to or what they wrote. Just shut up for once.

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          • I’ve never met you, but from what you expose of yourself on this platform, you are one of the worst human beings on the face of the Earth. I can say that with confidence. Every time you open your mouth, or let your fingers type, you show your true colors. I can’t wait to meet you someday. It will not be a pleasant encounter.

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            • Oh Bradley…
              Your false projections upon me, speak much more loudly about yourself and your belligerent state of mind than they do about myself.

              I know it must be really hard to be confronted with your own biases and the false pretenses many of your openly expressed opinions are based upon.
              This isn’t your own personal little echo hall.
              There’s also this issue that you and many others demand the we the people endure learning the same bullshit lessons again and again.
              Learn some fucking history.
              Many of the desires of the willfully ignorant, easily swayed, uneducated, and gullible masses will lead us right back into the arms of tyranny and fascism.
              And it will hurt them (& you) just as bad as the intitial targets.

              So, I’m “one of the worst human beings on the face of the Earth”?
              Funny that…I don’t murder, rape, thieve, defraud, assault, batter, or anything else unlawful or unethical against others.
              But, because I speak up you feel so challenged to confront your own pre-conceived notions and false pretenses, therefore I’m the worst?
              And you’ve stated that you hope I die a horrible and painful early death.

              I’m so very sorry that it’s so hard for you to show any intellectual integrity or honor.
              Fear is a real bitch.

              You need to get your priorities straight, they are all fucked up.

              You also need to learn the difference between a statement of fact vs advocacy vs opinion.

              You clearly the lack honor, integrity, or any capacity required to think beyond your own nose, short term gain, or about others, especially the ecosystem you so dearly depend upon.
              “I don’t eat fish, I eat venison”, so therefore salmon don’t matter, let them go extinct?
              Ignorance of your own apathy and of the absolutely critical importance of Keystone Species to ALL life here, whether you eat them or not, just flies right over your head.
              Is a kind of sick joke cross-bred with some real jackass-ery.
              It sure is a great way to devalue your own opinion, beyond the false pretenses you regularly employ.

              Too bad you can’t find a use for that “useless” Geology degree you have, especially in CA, a veritable geological wonderland.
              It’s like you’re in Detroit in the 1960s with a mechanical engineering degree and thinking it’s “useless”.
              That’s on you.
              Blame others for your own issues much?

              You appear to have some very serious personal problems, Bradley.
              Maybe put on your big boy pants and focus on those issues instead of getting so worked up over my posts.

              Remember Free Speech?
              It’s for everyone, not just you or those whose speech you happen to value.
              You want an echo chamber of double speak and outright lies so that you can feel all warm, cozy, and comfortable?
              Keep looking, it’s not here.
              Maybe try Bakersfield or a small town in LA, AL, or east TX where you can feel safe and unchallenged.
              The cities and larger towns will probably be too much for you.

              PS.
              Your assumption that fear is the reason I use an alias is patently false.
              As is the assumption that by doing so, any statement of facts or opinion is of less value.
              There are numerous reasons to do so, as the Supreme Court has supported with it’s rulings.
              Your lack of insight and imagination is not evidence to the contrary, nor is your obsession with it.
              Get over it and yourself.

              So, once again, go piss up a rope, snowflake.

              Why don’t you shut up, bitter little bullying simpleton?

              • Why don’t you put your intellect into something more constructive. I never claimed to be a genius, but it looks like you have recorded every statement I’ve ever made mentioning you. Comments from months and months ago. You are the oddest fish in this cesspool sea of Mendofever. I don’t give a shit what you say about me. I’m a dumb redneck. I never claimed anything else, but you. You are just something else. Obviously smart. If you put a fraction of the energy you put into the comment section into something more constructive. Maybe the world would be a better place. Like you said go piss up a rope. I’ve never tried it. Let me know how it works out. I’m not insecure. I have just gotten sick of your mouth.

              • How sick are you? You are quoting me from an article from five or six months ago. Obviously I’ve gotten under your skin more than I thought. And that says more about you, much much more than it says anything about me. The kind of degree I have, my comments with quotes around them, now that is just strange. That was six months ago and you were able to put quotes around my words. I don’t remember anything you said even from a previous article because I don’t care. Not really, but you are certainly a weirdo. There’s only one person that would have access to that stuff unless you recorded everything I wrote, which would be even weirder.

            • PPS.

              “I can’t wait to meet you someday. It will not be a pleasant encounter.”
              – Bradley Beck

              Brad,
              Does that make you feel like a big, big man?
              It makes you look very small indeed.

              Hungry for violence because you don’t really know how to use your words?
              Quite sad and impotent.

              If you are, in fact, implying a physical threat to me, I very strongly suggest you get your head screwed on straight and rethink your statement.
              I’ve met plenty of wanna be little tyrrants like you.
              Unless you’re a former serious contender or champion in the violent sports/arts, I grew up around much scarier and much more capable people than you can imagine yourself being.

              If we do meet and you force me to defend myself physically, it will be a very bad day that you’ll regret for the rest of your days.
              Not including the ensuing, very expensive legal saga between you and the state.
              You may just become one of those people that you often drool over & froth at the mouth for going to prison.
              What a sweet juxtaposition that would be.

              Why don’t you just go back to stealing candy from babies, agro fkn bully?

              Oh yeah, and piss up that fuckin rope, while you’re at it.

                    • Not another person on any article puts the time and effort into their comment as you do. And nobody else knows the things you know. I’m almost positive I know who you are, but I am not 100% certain yet.

                    • Your statements of and about whatever you think of me are stupendously presumptuous.

                      I’m a productive member of society who provides high-quality and economical solutions for all my clients.

                      I have this thing called a memory.
                      Try it sometime.

                      Chasing ghosts, Brad?
                      Don’t go after some random person based on your belief about my identity. You’ll get it wrong.
                      You’re not 100% certain now because your conjecture is incorrect.

                      “I wasn’t threatening you, but if I ever see you in person…”
                      You’ll what?
                      Another weakly veiled threat?

                      Nice tantrum, Brad.

                      PS
                      1. I don’t have access to any database.
                      You and I have the same access to this site, unless you’re a member.
                      I’m not.
                      There is a search function should you need it.
                      I don’t.
                      Keep chasing figments.
                      I’ve quoted a FEW things.
                      Plenty of people know many of the things I say, though, clearly YOU don’t.
                      That doesn’t equal nobody else.

                      You’re the only person who has openly threatened and/or wished grave harm upon me in many, many years.
                      So, it’s a little memorable.
                      But, hey, that’s on you.

                      No bully has pulled one over on me since elementary school.
                      Nor shall you.

                      Maybe, you ought to consider working on a little self-control before you end up with some real problems, like an aneurysm.
                      Or, go on and hate your little heart out.
                      It’s all yours; ie yohr hate is only corrosive to you.

              • Well said, bravo. Sorry, you just get me wound up like nobody else. I don’t really wish harm towards you. Sometimes I drink too much brandy and post. And you set me off like nobody else. My apologies. Sincerely.

                • I can respect that.
                  Thank you.
                  We can all do better.
                  Enjoy your brandy.
                  It certainly is better enjoyed when not fuming over some crap, eh?
                  Cheers

      • Still refusing to use your real name I see. That alone says a ton about you. You post all your filth under a false moniker. As with everybody else. Hardly anyone on this platform has the cahones to use their real name. You could find where I lived in five minutes because I use my real name. Do you think I care. Do you think I’m afraid to defend what I believe in person?

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Matt LaFever
Matt LaFeverhttps://mendofever.com/
For the past seven years, Matt LaFever has covered the North Coast of California in both print and radio news. A Humboldt State graduate, he has lived in the Emerald Triangle for nearly 20 years. His reporting spans local issues like crime and wildfires. When not writing, Matt is an avid outdoorsman, exploring Northern California’s rugged landscapes. Reach out to him at matthewplafever@gmail.com.

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