BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - An off-duty Kern County sheriff’s deputy killed a man after a gun battle outside of a pizza parlor, authorities said Friday.
The shooting occurred Thursday evening after a man who had been driving erratically lost a tire and pulled into the parking lot of Tony’s Firehouse Grill and Pizza in Bakersfield, authorities said.
The man drove to the rear of the business where the car became disabled, then got out and tried to get into the back door but employees inside held it closed, according to a Sheriff’s Department statement.
The man then went to the front of the business and tried to break the window of a car. Several people were eating outside and they approached the man, who pulled a gun from his waistband and pointed it at them, according to the statement.
An off-duty deputy who was at the business saw what was happening and confronted the man, leading to a gun battle. The man fell to the ground but still held the gun. The deputy shot him again and he died at the scene, police said. His name wasn’t immediately released.
Nobody else was injured, police said.
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