Off Duty Road Rage?

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Off-duty deputy shoots driver on 105 Freeway

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Francisco Vara-Orta and Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

An off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy shot and wounded a driver after a confrontation on the 105 Freeway in Hawthorne this morning.

The deputy was returning home from work in an unmarked, private sedan about 8 a.m. when another driver in a sedan tried to run him off the road on the eastbound 105 Freeway near Hawthorne Boulevard, according to Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Darryl Jacobs.

After both drivers pulled over to the right shoulder through morning traffic, the deputy was confronted by a Latino male, 20 to 30 years old, who came at him with a knife, Jacobs said. The deputy shot the man several times in the torso, Jacobs said. The wounded man, who was conscious at the scene, was taken to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

The deputy and other drivers on the freeway this morning were unhurt, Jacobs said.

Sheriff's investigators were circling an older-model Honda Prelude and a Dodge sedan at the scene this morning, but Jacobs would not specify which car the deputy was driving. More than half a dozen sheriff's vehicles were parked at the scene, and California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers monitored the freeway.

The eastbound 105 Freeway at Crenshaw Boulevard was closed shortly after 8:15 a.m. and traffic was diverted onto surface streets, said CHP Officer Francisco Villalobos.

"We received a call from the Sheriff's Department, and they requested they close the freeway down due to an investigation related to an incident in the city of Hawthorne," Villalobos said.

In addition, he said the north and south transition roads to the 105 Freeway from the 405 Freeway are closed. He said the backup stretched for at least two miles shortly after 9 a.m.

Drivers traveling in the area have been diverted north to Imperial Highway and can reenter the 105 Freeway at Hoover Street, or can travel south to El Segundo Boulevard, where they can also reenter at Hoover, he said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fr...,0,884498.story

[Lansbury 19]

who came at him with a knife

just one of those bad choices

[one...two...tree 2,762]

who came at him with a knife

just one of those bad choices

...or so that's what the off duty officer claims happened. It just seems illogical to me that if they both pulled over and he made it clear to the other driver that he was in fact a police officer, that this guy would so stupid as to come at him with a knife...unless he had a death wish.

[Scott & Lai 12]

who came at him with a knife

just one of those bad choices

...or so that's what the off duty officer claims happened. It just seems illogical to me that if they both pulled over and he made it clear to the other driver that he was in fact a police officer, that this guy would so stupid as to come at him with a knife...unless he had a death wish.

It does happen...it's called "suicide by cop." Besides, the other driver wasn't behaving logically in the first place, considering he tried to run the deputy off the road.

[Lansbury 19]

that this guy would so stupid as to come at him with a knife

Whoever said these sorts of idiots possess any intelligence of a measurable scale.

I've seen a guy when told, by 2 armed police officers each pointing a 9mm Glock at him, NOT to take his hand holding a gun out of his pocket do just that.

Edited April 1, 2008 by Lansbury

[one...two...tree 2,762]

who came at him with a knife

just one of those bad choices

...or so that's what the off duty officer claims happened. It just seems illogical to me that if they both pulled over and he made it clear to the other driver that he was in fact a police officer, that this guy would so stupid as to come at him with a knife...unless he had a death wish.

It does happen...it's called "suicide by cop." Besides, the other driver wasn't behaving logically in the first place, considering he tried to run the deputy off the road.

True, although the other aspects of the story are more in line with road rage....one guy cuts the other off and the other guy retaliates. Hopefully a thorough investigation will get to the truth of what really happened. Was he going to make an arrest? If so, did he turn his lights on? Did he call it in? If it wasn't an arrest, why did he pull over?

[dwiz123 0]

who came at him with a knife

just one of those bad choices

...or so that's what the off duty officer claims happened. It just seems illogical to me that if they both pulled over and he made it clear to the other driver that he was in fact a police officer, that this guy would so stupid as to come at him with a knife...unless he had a death wish.

It does happen...it's called "suicide by cop." Besides, the other driver wasn't behaving logically in the first place, considering he tried to run the deputy off the road.

True, although the other aspects of the story are more in line with road rage....one guy cuts the other off and the other guy retaliates. Hopefully a thorough investigation will get to the truth of what really happened. Was he going to make an arrest? If so, did he turn his lights on? Did he call it in? If it wasn't an arrest, why did he pull over?

I thought the article read that it was an unmarked, private sedan driven by the off duty officer.