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1965 - Signal newspaper owner Scott Newhall shows up for a duel (of words) with rival Canyon Country newspaper publisher Art Evans, who no-shows and folds his paper soon after [story]
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The man arrested for shooting a Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputy in the neck during an incident in Newhall on November 28 has been identified as Monolito Guerra, a 29-year-old parolee who had served 20 months of a five-year sentence.

Here’s the story from the station’s social media:

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau has released details regarding the identity of the suspect arrested in connection with the deputy-involved shooting that occurred in Santa Clarita on November 28, 2017.

SCV Sheriff’s Station deputies were dispatched to the 21300 block of Bottletree Lane for an assault with a deadly weapon call. A suspect, who was located in the parking area near the pool at the location, fired his handgun toward responding deputies, and a deputy-involved shooting occurred.

One of the deputies suffered a gunshot wound to the neck. The injured deputy was transported to a local hospital where he was hospitalized in stable condition. He has since been released and is on the road to recovery.

The suspect, identified as Monolito Guerra, a 29-year-old Hispanic man, was struck at least once in the torso. He was transported to a local hospital for surgery.

On December 10, Guerra, who was determined to be on parole, was transferred to a medical jail ward located at the Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center and booked for a parole violation.

Through their investigation, Homicide Detectives learned that Guerra was initially arrested on October 15, 2014. He was sentenced to state prison on February 2, 2016. He was serving a five-year prison term for evading arrest, a four-year prison term for a secondary charge of evading arrest, and an eight-month prison term for assault with a deadly weapon.

Guerra was paroled to the city of Santa Clarita on October 19. The deputy-involved shooting occurred less than six weeks later.

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15 Comments

  1. Aww. Poor outstanding citizen. He’s the victim here. ???

  2. A 5 year sentence. He still should have been serving. We are turning our state over to savages. Thanks to all that voted for for less jail time for these savages. If they are will to try to mutter a deputy do you think he wouldn’t kill you or your loved one in a heart beat without a second thought smh…. savage

  3. Sue Jacobs says:

    There is no justice for the innocent victims, the perpetrators have more rights than the victims!!!! What the hell!!!

  4. dennis says:

    This is what we can exspect from now on thanks to the libtard democrats that dont give a s#×# About anthing but them selves they are not here to help any of us.There out to destroy America.Its time we take these criminals like jerry brown out of office and hold them responsible for there crimes.And beleave they are criminals.How much are we going to put up with how much?

  5. When these criminals hurt people, at this point all you can do is hope the victim is a Jerry Brown supporter.

  6. Everyone who voted in those horrible propositions should thank themselves!Read & understand them before voting!Dont listen to the idiots in Sacramento!

  7. Krystal Mora says:

    Thanks Jerry Moonbeam and California liberals for prop 57

  8. I used to own one of the condos on the right side of the photo. It was a nice complex when I bought in 2009. Glad I took my equity and my life out of there.

  9. Ronald Lewis says:

    I was in the ER when the deputy and the shooter was brought into the hospital. I’m happy to hear the deputy is okay.

  10. SCVTeam says:

    Funny that some of you will claim not to be racist. Guess that Las Vegas shooting wasn’t a real shock either, he fit the description of a mass shooter.

    • glady says:

      nothing to do with racist… scvteam…las vegas shooter was a ass and so is this guy …except vegas guy was a mystery, he wasn’t as violent as this guy….both are persons that have no right to be on this earth…neither is good….so why you throw in this racist crap…makes no sense….tell us something we don’t know …how did he fit the mass shooter bill….did i miss something on the news?

  11. So Cal Guy says:

    SCVTeam – what is it with your racism comments? that’s two post where you toss it in. You should remove the “eam” from your site name and replace it with “urd” because no one here is on your team with your comments. A Parolee who was released due to Governor Browns ridiculous props that were passed and he shot a cop.

  12. Jeanne says:

    So Cal Guy, I told you SCVTeam is trolling Conservatives with his or her irrelevant and ignorant comments.

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