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U.S. NEWS Monday 25 June 2018

‘Gunshots and horror’: San Diego shootout wounds 2 officers

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man In video he took, two bar-
opened fire on police and rages of gunfire are heard
firefighters at a San Diego amid wailing sirens and
condominium, wounding emergency lights. Re-
two officers and sending sponders run down the
bullets into nearby units be- street near a firetruck and
fore he was found dead, glass breaks.
authorities said Sunday. Peyton said he saw a
Police Chief David Nisleit bloodied officer walking
said the two male officers out of the complex.
were expected to recover, “That’s basically all I saw
with one in serious condi- tonight, just gunshots and
tion and the other with less horror,” he said.
serious injuries, the San Di- Matthew Bezrouch, who
ego Union-Tribune reported lives a few doors down
. from the suspect’s condo,
“It’s the worst call you can told the newspaper that he
ever get,” Nisleit told re- heard at least 20 rounds af-
porters. “When you get that ter officers tried to enter.
call, your stomach just sinks, “It was fast,” Bezrouch said.
and you’re just hoping that “They were screaming,
nobody dies.” ‘Two officers down, bleed-
He didn’t release the San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit, right at podium, addresses the media Sunday morning, June ing!’
names of the wounded of- 24, 2018, about the shooting late Saturday night that wounded two officers in San Diego, Calif. He said he heard one last
ficers, saying one of them Associated Press gunshot after more officers
has three years of experi- gunfire,” Nisleit said. have been called to the go off and then I was like, arrived.
ence on the force and the Two officers fired back in a condo in the past but did ‘Go upstairs, go upstairs’ to Megan Ashdown, 23, and
other has 18. gunbattle that sent bullets not elaborate. my little brothers and sisters her boyfriend, William
Three officers had respond- into nearby condos. Au- Triston Peyton, 18, who lives that were in the house.” Blood, 24, said they heard
ed to a report of a violent thorities evacuated peo- in the complex, said he Peyton said his younger 15 or more shots as they
disturbance and knocked ple from the complex and heard an argument and siblings were scared and watched TV.
on the door. They got no sent in a robot to check on then gunfire about 30 min- he told them to stay in the “We got in bed, locked the
response but smelled what the suspect, whose name utes later. bathroom and lock the door and turned out the
they believed was smoke wasn’t released. “At first I thought it was trash door. He looked outside, lights,” Ashdown said. “We
and called the fire depart- Police found him dead, but cans banging or some- hearing more shots and were too scared to look out
ment, police said. it was not clear if he died thing, I didn’t really take it seeing broken glass about the window.”
They forced open the door, in the shootout or killed as serious,” he said. “And 30 steps from where he Police later got the couple
and “they were met by himself. Nisleit said officers then I heard more gunshots lives. out.q