An investigation was under way today into the wounding of a 17-year-old Eastvale boy in a deputy-involved shooting at the end of a car chase in Jurupa Valley.
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Deputies attempted at about 2:25 p.m., Wednesday Jan. 23 to pull over a white Honda Accord that had been reported stolen out of Eastvale on Jan. 10, said Sgt. Lisa McConnell, a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman.
The driver, who had three male passengers with him in the car, refused to stop and led deputies on a short chase that ended at the dead-end of Wagon Train Lane, she said.
“At that point, an officer-involved shooting occurred,” McConnell said.
A 17-year-old Eastvale boy in the front passenger seat was struck in the chest and taken to a hospital with a non-life-threatening wound, she said.
The driver, identified as 19-year-old Joseph Garcia of Eastvale, fled on foot but was located a short distance away and arrested, McConnell said.
He was being held at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside in lieu of $15,000 bail and was due in court in Riverside on Friday, according to sheriff’s online jail records.
Two boys, a 16-year-old from Eastvale and a 17-year-old from Anaheim who had been seated in the rear of the car, did not run and were taken into custody, she said.
Consistent with policy, the involved deputy was placed on administrative leave as homicide detectives investigated the shooting, McConnell said.
Anyone with information about the case was urged to contact the sheriff’s Central Homicide Unit at 951-955-2777.
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Garcia eh ! ……. Yeah , that figures .
Dave, Why do you say “Garcia eh..that figures” what do you mean by that?
It should be self exlpanatitory . Look at the stats on crime and what sects of the populace are responsible for the majority of it .
Wake up America !
why did you need to chase him?
Ask his buddies to get him/
Garcia stole a vehicle but who is responsible for the mass killings in American history…Mcveigh, Holmes, Lanza etc etc etc. What was “Garcia’s” motivation probably economic or plain stupidity. The “Mcveighs” political B.S or just so called being crazy.
I bet the Mcveighs, Holmes, Lanza look like you David. Now that’s a scary populace.
Be scared America
Yeah , your right Joe . The crazed shooters do all tend to be White . Let’s step back a minute though and ask ourselves why . Does working a mediocre job the rest of your life just scraping by while paying taxes you can’t afford so the lazy lawless scum can collect benifits and live a better lifestyle than the hard working individual sound fair ? How about the affirmative action programs that denied him opportunity no matter how qualified he was so they can promote someone of color no matter how unqualified . Does that sound fair Joe ?
See , the narrow minded in this nation cannot see past the ends of their noses . It’s hard to open your eyes when you have your head in your colon .
Liberalism is the sickness that is bleeding the life out of what was once a prosperous nation .
When you take from one and give to another and laziness and lawlessness is rewarded while productivity and hard work are punished , what sort of future do some people have to look forward to ? Being wronged by the government that you involuntarily we’re forced to fund and seeing your funds giving to lawbreaking lazy fraudsters is enough to send any normal thinking person for a loop . Maybe the lunacy of liberalism should be addressed in this country . The trends your seeing come to the surface now is just the beginning and being punished to do what’s right and being rewarded for being a lazy lawbreaker can and will cause problems . Paying into a system that squanders it to beings that never contributed a dime and are here lawlessly or ones that are able bodied fraudsters ? This is the White mans future in the USA . The government of this country has turned its back on some so to as appease others who will never be satisfied anyway .
So if you might broaden your thoughts , every man has a breaking point . It just may be that a lot of the discarded and forgot about race that funded things is about to reach theirs .
Be scared is right buddy !
Lunacy = Dave
Yes Joe , is see you have a fine economy with words . I look forward to your next syllable with great eagerness ,