A Sonoma Valley man was shot at least two times by Sonoma Police Department deputies Saturday night and was hospitalized with critical injuries, officials announced Sunday.
No deputies were injured in the incident, which occurred around 10:15 p.m. Saturday.
The two deputies involved in the shootings have been placed on paid administrative leave, officials said. Their names and years of service will be released later this week.
The city of Sonoma contracts for police services from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.
The man,officials said, was initially taken to a hospital in the Sonoma Valley region but was later transferred to a Sacramento area hospital for further treatment.
Additional information about the man, who authorities described as a white male in his 40s from the Sonoma Valley, had not yet been released Sunday afternoon and is pending the notification of his next of kin.
Authorities say the man was armed and fired a gun at least once at one of the deputies who had been investigating a 10 p.m. report of someone breaking windows out of vehicles in a parking lot in the 200 block of West Napa Street.
Responding deputies weren’t initially able to find anyone vandalizing cars in the parking lot, according to a post on the Sonoma Police Department’s Facebook page.
They did soon receive a report of a man, armed with a gun, in the 400 block of West Napa Street.
At about 10:15 p.m., a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy found the man in a parking lot in the 100 block of West Napa Street, officials said.
The deputy told the man to drop the gun several times but, according to the Facebook statement from Sonoma police, the man refused to comply.
Officials say he shot at the deputy at least one time, and the deputy returned gunfire. The man then ran south through the parking lot.
Authorities believe, based on initial information, that the deputy’s shot struck the man.
About a minute later, the man ran out of an alleyway just east of the parking lot, Sonoma police said, adding that he still had a firearm in his hand and was running in the direction of deputies.
Police said a second deputy then shot the man, who fell to the ground. They added that deputies continued to give him commands to prevent him from picking up his firearm.
After seizing the man’s gun, deputies provided medical aid and called emergency personnel to take him to an area hospital, officials said.
“Based on the circumstances of the incident,” according to the Sonoma police Facebook post, “the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office invoked the Sonoma County Critical Incident Protocol and requested the Santa Rosa Police Department and the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office to lead an independent investigation into the events that led to the deputy-involved shooting.”
The Santa Rosa Police Department’s Violent Crime Team has taken over the investigation. SRPD Field & Evidence Technicians were continuing to process the crime scenes Sunday, officials said.
The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office will conduct an internal administrative investigation to determine if the deputies followed department policy and protocol, officials said.
Investigators said Sunday they believe the person in the initial call about someone vandalizing cars in a parking lot and the man with a gun on along 1st Street West are both the same man who shot at the Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy.
Forensics technicians worked through the night into early Sunday processing the two shooting scenes, Santa Rosa police Sgt. Chris Mahurin said.
By about 8 a.m. Sunday, those areas were still blocked off.
The shootings took place along a stretch of street in part of the shopping/business district of Sonoma, not far from restaurants, boutiques and bars.
Some store openings Sunday were delayed by about an hour or so as forensics techs finished up their work.
Paul Spadaro owns Steiners Tavern, 465 1st St. West, which sits around the corner from where the second shooting occurred.
He told The Press Democrat Sunday that shortly before 10:30 p.m. Saturday, some of his staff saw a man walking in the alleyway between Steiners and a men’s clothing store next door.
Spadaro said his workers told him the man picked up a table that was outside in front of Steiners and ran with it toward a limousine parked nearby. He threw the table at the limousine, Spadaro added. His employees spotted he was carrying a firearm.
They said he appeared to be angry, Spadaro said, adding that after the armed man threw the table he continued walking south. The man was yelling, Spadaro said his workers said, but none of them could decipher what he was saying.
When his workers realized what was happening, Spadaro said, people went inside and security asked them to stay there until things were over.
“It’s shocking for our community,” Spadaro said of the incident. “I guess it doesn’t matter where you are in the world. There’s going to be people like that everywhere.”
He described Sonoma as safe and quiet, where something like this is very unusual.
By noon Sunday, the areas were cleared of law enforcement and appeared to be very much at ease. There were a lot of tourists and others walking around and cars lined the streets.
Saturday night’s incidents were the second deputy-involved shootings of 2022.
On July 29, a deputy fatally shot 36-year-old Lake County farmworker David Pelaez-Chavez.
Pelaez-Chavez was shot and killed by Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Dietrick, who, along with Deputy Anthony Powers, had chased him for 45 minutes over rugged terrain.
Pelaez-Chavez who was barefoot, had fled into the woods after trying to break into a home and stealing two vehicles in Knights Valley.
Staff Writer Mya Constantino contributed to this report.
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