SAN YSIDRO, Calif. _ A San Diego police officer shot and killed a 50-year-old man who fired at least two rounds from a rifle in a San Ysidro RV park Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
Officers responded to an RV and trailer parking area adjacent to a Travelodge motel around 1:35 p.m. after several people called to say a man was running through the West Calle Primera complex with a rifle that witnesses described as an AK-47.
One told a dispatcher the suspect had fired rounds and another said he had pointed the gun at him, police homicide Capt. Anthony Dupree said. Investigators said the man fired at least two rounds before officers arrived.
Two police officers confronted the man and one fired his weapon several times, striking the man, Dupree said.
No officers were injured.
Video from the scene shows police officers performing chest compressions on the suspect as he is lying on a road. Medics, who were cleared to enter the area around 1:50 p.m., later took over. Despite the efforts by first responders, the man died before he could be taken to a hospital, police said.
The suspect's name was not released.
Enrique Sandoval, who said he has lived in the trailer park about seven years, was at work when his wife called to tell him there was a man with a gun searching for someone at the complex.
Sandoval's wife told him that when the gunman seemed to find the person he was searching for, he fired a few rounds from his weapon, which she described as looking like a shotgun.
His wife then grabbed the couple's children and sought cover inside their residence. Police would not let Sandoval enter the complex when he arrived a few minutes after the shooting.
One witness told OnScene TV he had seen the man walking around with a "long rifle-looking weapon."
"He was actually just looking nervous, pacing, and just waving the gun. He (was) talking to one of the managers," the man said.
According to scanner traffic, police found bullet holes in a trailer. The residents inside the trailer were not hurt.
