Police ID wounded man and officer who shot him 70-year-old dragged from vehicle in morning carjacking

San Diego police on Friday identified the domestic violence suspect who was shot and wounded by a police officer Wednesday night in Rancho Peñasquitos and the Northeastern Division patrolman who shot him.

Timothy Beck, who has worked for the San Diego Police Department for five years, shot 61-year-old Richard Young around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday outside Young ’s home on Celtic Court, a cul-de-sac in a neighborhood south of Carmel Valley Road.

According to police, Young was armed with a revolver and raising it toward officers when Beck shot him once, striking him somewhere on his torso.

Investigators said that before the shooting, a police dispatcher heard Young in the background of a 911 call “talking about wanting to be shot by police officers.”

It all began when a woman, who police believed was Young ’s wife, called 911 to report some type of domestic incident, San Diego police homicide Capt. Richard Freedman said Wednesday.

Because of what the dispatcher overheard during the call, and because it was believed there were firearms in the home, officers hung back to formulate a plan when they initially arrived at the house, Freedman said. They moved in closer when the dispatcher reported hearing “the sounds of a possible struggle,” according to Lt. Matt Dobbs.

The officers approached the couple on the front porch, and when they tried to take Young into custody, he allegedly pulled the revolver from his waistband and “began to raise it in the direction of the officers,” Dobbs said. Investigators recovered the gun after the shooting.

Young remained hospitalized under guard Friday, according to Dobbs.

Beck was placed on administrative leave Wednesday night, a standard procedure as the Police Department’s homicide unit investigates the shooting.

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HILLCREST

A 70-year-old man was dragged out of his vehicle in a carjacking in Hillcrest just after dawn Friday, a San Diego police officer said.

The incident happened while the victim was sitting in his 2003 burgundy Saturn in front of a home on Albatross Street near West University about 6:35 a.m., Officer Sarah Foster said.

A man in a black face mask and black baseball cap opened the driver’s door and dragged the victim from the car, Foster said.

He then hopped in and took the Saturn. He was last seen driving it east on Washington Street.

Foster said the man who took the car looked to be in his 40s, about 5 feet, 7 inches tall and with a heavy build.

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Rainbow Valley Road, the California Highway Patrol’s online logs indicate.

The vehicle was on its roof in the fast lane, the agency said.

North County Fire Department tweeted that its crews had responded to the crash, and that multiple people were injured. One person was dead.

No further information was immediately available.