![Traffic backed up on the southbound Interstate-5 Wednesday, August 11 for over an hour and 20 minutes south of Gorman, north or Templin Highway due to a shooting incident involving a Los Angeles County deputy. [photo by Elke Heitmeyer]](https://mountainenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1726w-194x400.jpg)
Traffic backed up on the southbound Interstate-5 Wednesday, August 11 for over an hour and 20 minutes south of Gorman, north or Templin Highway due to a shooting incident involving a Los Angeles County deputy. [photo by Elke Heitmeyer]
FRAZIER PARK, CA (Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021 at 8:15 p.m.)—The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has distributed a press release regarding a deputy involved shooting this afternoon:
According to the LASD statement, a deputy from the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station attempted a traffic stop on a vehicle on a frontage road of the southbound I-5 Freeway about one mile north of Templin Highway in Gorman.
During the traffic stop, the deputy told the driver to exit the vehicle and was escorting him back to his patrol car when the suspect broke free and ran.
The suspect ran up an embankment. The deputy returned to his patrol car, and reversed to an access road. The suspect ran back to his vehicle.
The deputy chased the suspect on foot. An altercation ensued at the door of the suspect’s vehicle. The suspect drove away, “dragging the deputy with him,” the KCSO report states.
The suspect crashed through a chain-link fence leading to the southbound I-5 shoulder. He then crashed again through the fence back to the frontage road “and a deputy involved shooting occurred.”
The suspect was struck by gunfire and was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The sheriff’s report states that a handgun was recovered at the scene “where the suspect was sitting.”
The deputy was transported to a local hospital where he was treated for his injuries and released.
FRAZIER PARK, CA (Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021 at 2:36 p.m.)—Frazier Park resident Elke Heitmeyer reports that traffic has begun to move. She said she has been stuck in southbound traffic at a standstill for about an hour and twenty minutes. At one point northbound traffic was also stopped.
FRAZIER PARK, CA (Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021 at 1:39 p.m.)—A shooting involving a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy has traffic stopped in southbound lanes north of Templin Highway near Castaic. The LA County Sheriff’s Information Bureau told The Mountain Enterprise that a deputy involved shooting took place at 12:17 p.m. No other information was available.
This is part of the August 6, 2021 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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