Six-year-old boy dies after SUV he’s in flips on its side when sedan hits it

SAN DIEGO

A 6-year-old boy died Wednesday after the SUV he was riding in was T-boned at an intersection in the Kensington neighborhood, causing the vehicle to flip on its side and land on a fire hydrant that intruded into the passenger compartment, officials said.

According to San Diego police, a 45-year-old man was driving a Jeep shortly after 7:45 a.m. with two children in the vehicle — heading south on Biona Drive and trying to cross the intersection with Adams Avenue — when it was hit by a Hyundai Sonata sedan going east on Adams. The collision caused the Jeep to overturn.

Investigators believe the sedan hit the Jeep on its passenger side, flipping the vehicle onto its driver’s side, said San Diego police Lt. Daniel Hall.

The child who died was riding in the seat behind his father. His 8year-old sister also was a back-seat passenger in the vehicle. Both children were in safety seats, police said.

Video from the scene showed a street sign crushed underneath the SUV and a yellow fire hydrant sticking into the passenger compartment of the vehicle next to a child’s car seat.

Medics and police responded to the crash and worked to extricate and treat passengers in the overturned vehicle, Hall said. The boy was taken to a hospital around 8:20 a.m., according to a fact sheet posted online by the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

No one else was taken to a hospital from the crash scene although police were told the Hyundai driver, a 20-year-old woman, later sought medical care on her own. Neither drugs nor alcohol were believed to be factors in the crash, police Lt. Adam Sharki said.

Hall said investigators will work to determine exactly how the collision occurred, a time-consuming process that involves calculations to pinpoint exact movements.

“The bottom line, it is a tragedy,” he said.

Hall said it was too early to determine if anyone would face charges related to the crash.

“We are fact-finding, trying to establish the actual events,” he said.

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Man accused of domestic violence prompts standoff

VISTA

A man accused of domestic violence Wednesday prompted a standoff with sheriff ’s deputies at a home in Vista, where they suspected he was holed up, but they didn’t find him inside about seven hours later.

The incident began about 8:20 a.m. on Apollo Drive near East Indian Rock Road. The 50-year-old man was accused of assault, sheriff ’s Lt. David Collins said.

Collins said the victim got out safely and did not require medical care at a hospital.

Deputies instructed the man to walk out of the home and surrender, but he did not respond. A

SWAT team was called in.

Collins said the man has a felony arrest warrant, but the lieutenant declined to elaborate on that case.

About 3:20 p.m., the Sheriff’s Department said on Twitter that the suspect was not found. “There is no danger to the community,” the department said.

No further information was immediately available.

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Passenger in pickup killed when vehicle goes off I-15 NORTH COUNTY

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A 24-year-old man riding in a pickup died early Wednesday when the vehicle went off Interstate 15 near Bonsall and overturned, officials said.

The driver was heading south on I-15, just north of Gopher Canyon Road, in a gray GMC Sierra pickup when, for an unknown reason, he veered off the road around 5:10 a.m., said California Highway Patrol Officer Hunter Gerber.

After going off the freeway, the truck overturned.

The passenger, a resident of Moreno Valley, died before he could be taken to a hospital.

The driver of the GMC, a 48year-old man from Riverside County, did not report any injuries. Investigators said it doesn’t appear that alcohol or drugs were factors in the crash, Gerber said.

Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call CHP investigators at (760) 643-3400.

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39-year-old man killed in Lemon Grove shooting ID’d LEMON GROVE

Sheriff ’s officials on Wednesday identified the 39-year-old man who died last weekend after being shot in Lemon Grove as Gregory Moore of San Diego.

Deputies responding to the shooting found Moore unconscious in the driver’s seat of a car in the intersection of Lemon Grove Avenue and San Miguel Avenue shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday.

He was suffering from gunshot wounds to his upper leg and lower torso.

Deputies used a tourniquet on the victim’s leg while they waited for paramedics to arrive.

Moore died after being taken to a hospital.

An autopsy conducted Monday by the county Medical Examiner’s Office determined the preliminary cause of death was a gunshot wound, officials said.

Investigators have released few details about the shooting and have not released any suspect information. The shooting occurred on Lemon Grove Avenue near Montana Street, said sheriff ’s Lt. Chris Steffen. After Monroe was shot, he drove a short distance to the intersection, where he was found.

“We are still investigating as to what the motive might have been,” Steffen said in an email.

He said detectives are reviewing surveillance camera footage from the area.

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Fake active-shooter report prompts lockdown at school RANCHO BERNARDO

A fake report of an active shooter at Bernardo Heights Middle School in Rancho Bernardo prompted an hourlong lockdown late Wednesday morning, San Diego police said.

The campus on Paseo Lucido was locked down after police received the report around 11 a.m.

San Diego police officers flooded campus — the report “obviously prompted a large response” — but did not find any threats, Lt. Adam Sharki said.

The lockdown was lifted around 12 p.m after police gave the all-clear.

Officers had swept the campus for any threats on the ground and also from a police helicopter, according to police and an email the Poway school district sent to parents.

Officers stayed on campus as the lockdown was lifted and classes resumed.

“This was a completely false report,” Sharki said.

He said police were investigating the report. San Diego police Officer Sarah Foster said the San Diego Unified School District, which does not include Bernardo Heights Middle School, received the call about the shooter and passed along the report to San Diego police.

“We want to thank law enforcement for responding so quickly, and we commend staff and students for responding calmly, as we have trained for in our lockdown drills,” Poway Unified said in the email.