Man fatally shot at rural East County property Hit-and-run crash kills pedestrian outside hospital

DEHESA

A man was shot and killed at a rural property near Dehesa late Thursday, a sheriff ’s homicide lieutenant said.

The shooting was reported a few minutes after 10:30 p.m. at the property on Stallion Oaks Road, sheriff ’s Lt. Thomas Seiver said.

As deputies from the sheriff ’s Alpine substation headed to the scene, someone acquainted with the shooting victim drove him from the home.

The car was about a mile and a half from the shooting scene, still on Stallion Oaks but near Dehesa Road, when deputies spotted and stopped it, Seiver said. They rendered aid to the victim, as did medics with the Sycuan Fire Department, but the man died at the scene.

Seiver did not release the name of the victim nor the suspect, but said investigators do not believe there are any other suspects.

According to emergency radio traffic, one person suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. The radio traffic indicated the shooting may have happened at a property about a half-mile from the nearest road, and deputies approached the scene cautiously as the crew in a sheriff ’s helicopter described the scene to them.

Stallion Oaks Road is paved where it first branches off Dehesa Road, then turns into an unpaved dirt road that winds into the mountains northeast of Sycuan Casino. It was not immediately clear where along Stallion Oaks Road the shooting occurred.

SAN DIEGO

The driver of a vehicle f led after striking and killing a 61-year-old man Thursday evening near Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego’s Birdland neighborhood, police said.

The victim was struck about 5:40 p.m. on Health Center Drive near the hospital and several other health care facilities, a few blocks south of Mesa College Drive, according to San Diego police Officer Robert Heims.

The victim was taken to a hospital, where he died, Heims said.

“An unknown vehicle hit the pedestrian and continued south” on Health Center Drive toward Genesee Avenue, Heims said in a statement.

Police did not have any description of the vehicle.

The Police Department’s traffic division is investigating the crash.