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  • Traffic snarl follows vehicle pursuit that ends with shooting in Oceanside

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    The backup on Interstate 5 in the early-morning hours Saturday Nov. 22, 2025 after a motorist was shot by law enforcement. (Photo courtesy of OnScene.TV)

    A police pursuit ended in Oceanside Saturday with a shooting involving law enforcement that shut down Interstate 5 for hours, authorities said.

    The shooting left the suspect with “major injuries,” according to the California Highway Patrol, which said a firearm was recovered at the scene.

    Officers with the Buena Park Police Department attempted to pull over a gray 2005 Cadillac
    CTS for a traffic violation at about 12:45 a.m. Saturday, near the intersection of La Palma Avenue and San Marino Drive, authorities said.

    The driver took off, leading officers on a pursuit through Orange County, Long Beach and back into Orange County on southbound I-5, Buena Park Sgt. Martin Tomsick said.

    Officers turned the pursuit over to the California Highway Patrol at 1:05 a.m., but kept their K-9 Unit involved in the chase at the request of the CHP, according to Tomsick.

    The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office dispatched aerial drones at 2:15 a.m. to assist with finding the suspect, according to SDSO Lt. Sean Gallagher.

    Tomsick said the pursuit ended in gunfire on southbound I-5 in the Camp Pendleton area and that a Buena Park K-9 officer and at least one CHP officer fired their weapons at a suspect. It appeared no officers were injured, he said.

    In a late evening news release, the CHP added details about the shooting, saying that the Cadillac driver, armed with a handgun, exited the vehicle and fled on foot just prior to the shooting.

    For several hours the suspect remained in a “large brush area” in the median between the northbound and southbound lanes of the freeway north of Harbor Drive, the CHP said. Despite commands from CHP and Buena Park officers, the suspect refused to surrender and remained uncooperative until 7:40 a.m., when they were able to take the person into custody.

    The CHP offered no further information on the driver’s condition or identifying characteristics such as gender or age.

    During their investigation, officers recovered an unserialized firearm, known as a “ghost gun,” in the area where the suspect was taken into custody, the CHP said. The agency’s Border Division Major Crimes Unit is investigating the cause and sequence of events during the pursuit and shooting.

    I-5 was temporarily closed in both directions, and a Sigalert was issued shortly after 2:30 a.m. between Harbor Drive in Oceanside and Christianitos Road in San Clemente, according to the CHP.

    CHP Officer Hunter Gerber said northbound I-5 through Camp Pendleton was partially open for lanes 2-4 as of 9:30 a.m., while the No. 1 lane remained closed. Lanes 2-4 reopened shortly before 2 p.m., and all northbound and southbound lanes on were opened by mid-afternoon.

    Traffic on southbound I-5 from San Clemente had been being diverted to the right shoulder south of Christianitos, according to Gerber.

    Updated, 8:55 p.m. Nov. 22, 2025


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  • Footage from deputy’s body-worn camera shows fatal shooting of Alpine resident

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    Footage moments after the Nov. 5, 2025 fatal shooting in Alpine in which the deputy is holding the gun after firing at the resident. (Image from @sdsheriff via YouTube)

    Authorities on Friday released video footage of the fatal shooting by a sheriff’s deputy of an Alpine man nearly three weeks ago.

    Robert Edmund Liddell, 72, allegedly approached him and his partner with a replica pistol in hand as the deputies checked in on him at the request of a neighbor.

    Deputy Jordi Herrera opened fire on Liddell in a hallway at the man’s home in the 1700 block of Kyrsten Terrace on Nov. 5, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office.

    Deputies arrived about an hour after a 6:30 p.m. 911 call in which the neighbor reported that she was concerned about a man she had been unable to contact.

    Speaking to a dispatcher, she said she was outside Liddell’s home, where she found the front door open but got no response from anyone inside.

    “When I knocked, then I noticed (the door) started – you know, it didn’t open completely, but it pushed forward, and if I had knocked again, it would have opened the door,” the caller said in a recording that was part of footage posted on YouTube by the Sheriff’s office. The woman added that she called out, but received no answer.

    Herrera and Deputy Christopher Kleppe, can be seen upon arrival, inspecting the scene outside briefly, before deciding to enter through the unlocked front door.

    Repeatedly identifying themselves as sheriff’s deputies, they walked through the dark home with their flashlights on and their body-worn cameras activated. About 30 seconds after they entered, Liddell emerged from a room with the imitation pistol in his hand and said, “Get the (expletive) out.”

    As Kleppe took refuge in a room and the resident moved past that doorway, the deputies shouted at him to drop it. Moments later Herrera fired four rounds at Liddell and he collapsed against a wall. They ordered him again to drop the gun, and he yelled, “I dropped it.”

    Herrera and Kleppe provided emergency aid prior to the arrival of paramedics who took Liddell to a hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

    Herrera has been with the Sheriff’s Office for three years, and Kleppe for six. Per the agency’s policies, they were placed on desk duty while the shooting is investigated by California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office under terms of a 2020 state law.

    Assembly Bill 1506 requires the state Department of Justice to investigate law enforcement shootings resulting in the deaths of unarmed people.

    Under the statute, “armed” means being in possession of a deadly weapon, according to the DOJ. Replica firearms do not fall into that category unless they are used in a manner likely to produce death or great bodily injury, for example, to bludgeon.


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  • Comics, collectibles worth millions recovered in North County probe

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    Valuable comic books recovered as part of a San Diego County Sheriff’s investigation. (Photo courtesy of SDSO)

    Two suspects were behind bars Wednesday, linked to 13 North County storage-unit burglaries in which comic books and other collectibles worth millions of dollars were stolen.

    Investigators discovered the spree, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, after the launch of a fraud probe in June by detectives from the Vista Sheriff’s Station.

    They began looking into allegations that individuals had used stolen personal identifying information to lease storage units.

    Between Oct. 28 and Nov. 13, detectives served three search warrants, including one at a home in the 300 block of West Los Angeles Drive in Vista, seizing the stolen comic books, trading cards and other collectibles. Two of the comics, old Spider-Man editions, bore tags with estimated prices of $11,000 and $4,000.

    Detectives also found 19 guns and nearly $100,000 in cash.

    Kyle John Henely, 43, and Veronica Merlo, 40, allegedly stole the goods during six break-ins in Escondido, five in Valley Center and two in Oceanside.

    Henely and Merlo have been booked into the Vista Detention Facility on suspicion of burglary, fraud, grand theft and conspiracy, according to jail records. Authorities initially charged them with the Oceanside break-ins, then added the counts in the Escondido and Valley Center cases.

    City News Service contributed to this report.


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  • Lifeguard, fire crews rescue swimmer near Oceanside Pier

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    (File photo by Alexander Nguyen/Times of San Diego)

    Oceanside lifeguards have rescued a swimmer who was sent to the hospital in critical condition.

    Lifeguards, along with Oceanside firefighters and police, responded just after 4:20 p.m. Friday near 600 The Strand North, according to a news release from the Oceanside Fire Department. Family members on the beach pointed out the area where the swimmer had last been seen.

    Lifeguards in rescue watercraft and a boat, joined by fire units, began an extensive search along the shoreline and in the water. Authorities sought air support from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department helicopter unit, ASTREA, which ultimately located the missing swimmer just south of Oceanside Pier.

    The lifeguard and fire units pulled the swimmer from the water. The patient required “advanced life support care on scene,” officials said, before being taken to a local hospital in critical condition.

    The fire department offered no other details about the swimmer, including age or gender.


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  • Driver killed in crash after sedan strikes light pole in Vista

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    An investigator examines the wrecked sedan after the fatal crash in Vista. (Photo courtesy of OnScene.TV)

    A motorist died early Saturday in a rollover crash at a Vista intersection and alcohol may have been a factor in the crash.

    At around 4:25 a.m. authorities received 911 calls about a single vehicle rollover at South Melrose and Shadowridge, according to OnScene.TV.

    When first responders arrived they found a trapped driver in a sedan with major damage. Firefighters attempted to extricate the person, but ultimately the motorist was pronounced dead at the scene.

    The crash investigation team from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.

    Authorities believe the vehicle had been traveling northbound, but then left the roadway, struck a light pole and rolled several times.


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