Crime & Safety

Deputies Named in Shooting of Lehigh Gunman

Three Santa Clara County sheriff's were named in the shooting of Shareef Allman, the suspect who killed three and wounded seven in Wednesday's shooting spree.

The Santa Clara County medical examiner's office has confirmed that the man who was shot and killed by deputies in Sunnyvale Thursday morning was Shareef Allman—the alleged gunman in Wednesday's shooting rampage at a
Cupertino quarry.

Three Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies were on patrol this morning during a massive manhunt for Shareef Allman, a San Jose resident and employee at the Lehigh Southwest Cement Company's Permanente Plant who police say shot nine people there early Wednesday morning, killing three, Sheriff Laurie Smith said.

At about 7:30 a.m. Thursday, one of the three deputies spotted a man who resembled Allman "crouching behind a car" parked near 934 Lorne Way in
Sunnyvale.

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That deputy and two others approached the man and attempted to confront him. But when they saw that the man had a handgun—possibly the same one used in the quarry shooting—all three deputies fired and killed him on the spot, said Smith.

She said he displayed the handgun in a "threatening manner" at the deputies, though it hasn't been determined whether he fired the gun.

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Sheriff's officials named Fabian Desantiago, Christopher Hilt, and Lindsay Crist as the deputies who were involved Thursday morning's shooting on Lorne Way in Sunnyvale.

Each of the three deputies has less than five years of experience with the sheriff's office.

"They are exceptional, great deputies...who did a great job at the scene," Smith said.

The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety is investigating this morning's shooting because it occurred within the city's jurisdiction, department officials said.

Detectives are interviewing the deputies involved and Santa Clara County Crime Lab investigators are processing the scene, according to the department.

—By Bay City News Service


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