Trending Topics

Crash victim shoots at Calif. cops, firefighters

Man fired on firefighters and law enforcement before killing himself

The Bakersfield Californian

LOST HILLS, Calif. — A suspect who crashed a stolen vehicle near Interstate 5 late Thursday evening allegedly fired on firefighters and law enforcement before killing himself.

The incident began shortly before 11:52 p.m. when two off-duty Mount Shasta firefighters stopped to help a motorist who crashed in a vacant field by I-5 north of Lost Hills. Kern County sheriff’s deputies said the motorist — later identified as 36-year-old Frank Reynoso — opened fire on the firefighters as he ran from his vehicle.

The firefighters were uninjured.

Deputies and California Highway Patrol officers arrived shortly afterward. Deputies said Reynoso, of Lemoore, also fired on them from where he was hiding under a tumbleweed.

The officers did not return fire, and the sheriff’s SWAT team responded to the scene. SWAT members approached Reynoso and found he was dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, deputies said.

Deputies later found the vehicle Reynoso was driving had been reported stolen to the Lemoore Police Department.

Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at 861-3110 or Secret Witness at 322-4040. Refer to case number SR15-02564.

Copyright 2015 The Bakersfield Californian

RECOMMENDED FOR YOU