Sacramento County Deputy Shot, Manhunt For Shooter

[not5150]

The several hours thing really bothers me on this one.

[Observer]

Sacramento County Deputy Shot, Manhunt For Shooter
Suspect Vehicle Is A White Chevy Van Without Plates

(CBS 13) SACRAMENTO A massive manhunt is underway right now in Southeast Sacramento County following the overnight shooting of a Sacramento Sheriff's Deputy.

It happened near Dillard and Meiss Roads just south of the Jackson Highway in the Sloughouse area.

CBS 13 has learned that the officer last reported his location in the area of the shooting sometime during the night. Dispatchers lost communication with the officer and after several hours sent another deputy in search of the officer.

That's when officers discovered he had been shot. The deputy is now at the UC Davis Medical Center in critical condition and a massive search for the suspect or suspects in underway. The Sheriff's Department says the deputy was shot once.

Sacramento County Sheriff's SWAT, Sacramento Police SWAT and CHP are all helping in the manhunt. The suspect vehicle is described as a white Chevy panel van without license plates. The van may have damage to the front end. Officers say the van was driven by a man.

Several roads in the area are closed. Meiss Road is closed and officers are stopping vehicles at several intersections on Jackson Highway.


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[NorCalN00b]

R.I.P. :-(

[Observer]

Sacramento County Deputy Shot, Manhunt For Shooter
Suspect Vehicle Is A White Chevy Van Without Plates

(CBS 13) SACRAMENTO A massive manhunt is underway right now in Southeast Sacramento County following the overnight shooting of a Sacramento Sheriff's Deputy.

It happened near Dillard and Meiss Roads just south of the Jackson Highway in the Sloughouse area.

CBS 13 has learned that the officer last reported his location in the area of the shooting sometime during the night. Dispatchers lost communication with the officer and after several hours sent another deputy in search of the officer.

That's when officers discovered he had been shot. The deputy is now at the UC Davis Medical Center in critical condition and a massive search for the suspect or suspects in underway. The Sheriff's Department says the deputy was shot once.

Sacramento County Sheriff's SWAT, Sacramento Police SWAT and CHP are all helping in the manhunt. The suspect vehicle is described as a white Chevy panel van without license plates. The van may have damage to the front end. Officers say the van was driven by a man.

Several roads in the area are closed. Meiss Road is closed and officers are stopping vehicles at several intersections on Jackson Highway.


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"Dispatchers lost communication with the officer and after several hours sent another deputy in search of the officer."

That statement from the article just doesn't sit right...

[Chp4me]

Sacramento County Deputy Shot, Manhunt For Shooter
Suspect Vehicle Is A White Chevy Van Without Plates

(CBS 13) SACRAMENTO A massive manhunt is underway right now in Southeast Sacramento County following the overnight shooting of a Sacramento Sheriff's Deputy.

It happened near Dillard and Meiss Roads just south of the Jackson Highway in the Sloughouse area.

CBS 13 has learned that the officer last reported his location in the area of the shooting sometime during the night. Dispatchers lost communication with the officer and after several hours sent another deputy in search of the officer.

That's when officers discovered he had been shot. The deputy is now at the UC Davis Medical Center in critical condition and a massive search for the suspect or suspects in underway. The Sheriff's Department says the deputy was shot once.

Sacramento County Sheriff's SWAT, Sacramento Police SWAT and CHP are all helping in the manhunt. The suspect vehicle is described as a white Chevy panel van without license plates. The van may have damage to the front end. Officers say the van was driven by a man.

Several roads in the area are closed. Meiss Road is closed and officers are stopping vehicles at several intersections on Jackson Highway.


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"Dispatchers lost communication with the officer and after several hours sent another deputy in search of the officer."

That statement from the article just doesn't sit right...

He is in critical condition, and going through surgery last I herd! The dispatcher checked in on a officer welfare check after 7 minutes and got no response they sent deputy's out immediately at that point. Just to clarify from the news here this morning! They have all the sign's on the freeway this morning that say "officer shot white chevy van call 911"

[CHP 11-99]

The officer passed away this morning.


Sheriff John McGinness identified the fallen deputy as 38-year-old Jeff Mitchell, a nine-year veteran of the department who had spent the last six years as a deputy. He had been shot once in the head, McGinness said during a morning news conference.

Mitchell, who was patrolling alone, had radioed in to dispatch that he was stopping a van that did not have license plates.

The preliminary investigation indicates the shooting was outside the vehicles and that the deputy may have been trying to take the suspect into custody. The deputy also might have had is own weapon drawn, McGinness said.

When other deputies arrived, they found Mitchell barely alive with a weak pulse. He was pronounced dead at the University of California Davis Medical Center.

Mitchell is the first Sacramento County sheriff's deputy to die this year and third in the last two years. He is survived by a wife and 6-year-old son.

Copyright 2006 by KTVU.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All righ

[Chp4me]

I am sorry to hear this news! God rest his soul, another fallen officer protecting the public from evil! :cry:

[PapaBear]

My heart is heavy over this loss. God bless his family and take them to His bosom for comfort during this mournful period. RIP !!:cry:

[David]

I'm kind of in shock and wondering why I hadn't heard about this already. I guess I don't watch the news enough.

[cal911gal]

The several hours thing really bothers me on this one.

It bothered me too, which is why I opted to respond here, but I had to wait until my BP stabilized. Actually, the comments I'd like to use were said (better) in another post.....see below.

First, my condolences to the family, friends, and agency of the slain Deputy. It's appalling, to say the least, that some people have such a blatant disregard for authority, and for the value of a human life.

Second, from the reports I've seen, it wasn't "hours", it was mere minutes, before the dispatcher started checking on him. Yet again the media has printed an egregious(sp) error, which harms so many people on so many levels. When you lose one of your own, you second guess yourself and replay that incident, EVERY DAY, for the rest of your life. You always wonder what you should have done differently - oftentimes there was nothing that could have been done on the dispatcher's end that would have changed a thing. But it does continue to eat you alive.

To have something like the statement "they didn't check him for hours" printed, worldwide, just makes me sick. But I won't go on and on, the ineptitude of the author and editor of that story speaks volumes in itself. The important fact here is that an innocent man was killed and a child has been left without his father.

From another post: "That's the media for you" - yeah well, here again true true... I'm no big fan of the press. Granted, we each have our jobs to do, and I would suspect that most in journalism are very professional, and research their facts. Media people, police your own! Authors like the one who printed this incorrect fact make you ALL look bad.

From another post: "I told a trainee once, 'There will always be somebody who 'knows' how to do your job better than you.'
There you have it. " Yup, there you have it. Press aren't cops, nor are they dispatchers. Don't speak so easily on that which you have little knowledge of.

From another post: "The only thing worse than being second-guessed by some desk jockey with virtually zero field time is being told how to do your job by some condescending civilian whose knowledge of law enforcement consists of what they've seen on television shows and heard from their great uncle's brother's cousin's nephew's dad who "used to be" a cop. I'll refer back to the ancient pearl of wisdom that says "It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Amen Mac! That also applies when second-guessing what's going on behind the mic as well. For all we know, their dispatcher may have begun doing status checks on the officer immediately. We don't know. Period.

As a side note, for both seasoned officers and wannabe-newbies : For God's sake, KNOW YOUR 10-20!

I worked OT on a radio last night...had a unit put himself on a stop. This is an example of the conversation:

Unit: Dispatch, XXX, I need a 27/28.
Me: XXX go ahead.
Unit: Dispatch, I'm on Blah blah street at ummmm errrrh ummm standby.
30 seconds goes by......I try to raise him. No response.
Tried several more times in the next two minutes, no response.

Please note: The street he gave me, was in the town our office is in. Had he needed help, he wasn't too far away and it's a short street. I could have rolled the PD to check. At this point, I wasn't overly concerned, as he didn't sound distressed.

I get him back after a few minutes....

Me: Unit XXX did you still need 27/28?
Unit: Affirm, I'm at blah blah and la-de-dah roads. (Which is 10 miles away from where he said he was.)

Had I rolled back up with this city PD, they never would have found him. Had he been in danger, NO ONE would have known where he was!

Turns out, he was in one of the biggest gang-banger neighborhoods we have. Solo. Which is normal for him. But when all was said and done, he goes to impound the car, and now gives me a third, completely different 10-20 when he requests the tow.

As I said, if at all possible, before you light em' up, know WHERE YOU ARE! We can't help you if we don't know where you are.

Be safe out there.