Behind the Badge
Best of BTB: Training, instinct save OCSD deputies from suicidal man who fired dozens of rounds from illegal automatic rifle
0Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives on Tuesdays and Fridays. This story is from May 11, 2016. Calls of someone threatening suicide come in often — two or three a week, at least — but none in the deputies’ experience have ended up like the one April 27. Three Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies at about 6:30 p.m. were dispatched to a call involving a suicidal man with a gun in the garage of his home on Paseo Castile in San Juan Capistrano. On most days, a call like…
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