The visitors cease began off calmly.
Two Fontana cops pulled over a black sport utility car in Yucaipa, and a male officer requested the driving force about what seemed to be a lacking entrance license plate. They chatted about tenting within the snow — the car had overland tenting gear affixed to it — and the officer chuckled when the person mentioned he had beforehand been arrested for having unlawful fireworks.
The officer requested the driving force, whom authorities recognized as Alan Metka, 56, to step out of his car. His accomplice, a feminine officer, would pat him down to verify he didn’t have any weapons on him.
The feminine officer searched him, remarking on their apparent top distinction, because the male officer returned to his police automobile to run Metka’s data.
Seconds later, a shout rang out: “He’s acquired a gun!”
“Let her go! Let her go!” the male officer yelled as he ran towards his accomplice, who was being held in a headlock.
The Feb. 9 encounter was captured on body-worn digital camera footage the Fontana Police Division launched on Thursday.
In the course of the battle at Yucaipa Boulevard and 14th Avenue, the male officer shot Metka, placing him close to the jaw, Fontana Police Chief Michael Dorsey mentioned in a recorded assertion launched with the video footage. A loaded semiautomatic pistol was taken from Metka’s pants pocket, he mentioned.
The video footage exhibits the male officer telling Metka his entrance license plate was lacking, which Metka denied, and that his window tint appeared too darkish.
When the officer requested Metka if he had been arrested, he mentioned that, about two years prior, he was arrested for “explosives in public.”
“That’s an fascinating one,” the officer mentioned, chuckling.
Metka mentioned the arrest was for possessing fireworks and that he spent 11 months behind bars.
The officer requested if he was carrying any weapons. He mentioned no.
As the feminine officer patted him down, she requested: “What’s this proper right here?”
“My gun,” he mentioned.
Then, the video exhibits, he grabbed her and put her in a headlock.
The male officer’s gunshot can’t be heard within the video. However in footage from the feminine officer’s digital camera, he groans in ache and blood might be seen on the highway.
Dorsey mentioned his officers had been gang investigators who had been in Yucaipa to help the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division, which offers legislation enforcement service for town.
Metka is being held on the West Valley Detention Heart in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of assault with a lethal weapon upon a police officer, resisting an govt officer and being a felon in possession of a firearm, in keeping with San Bernardino County jail information.
The incident is being investigated by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division and District Lawyer’s workplace, Dorsey mentioned. The Fontana Police Division, he mentioned, “can also be conducting a parallel administrative investigation, and we’re cooperating totally with the investigating companies.”
Dorsey mentioned that Metka has an “in depth legal historical past,” with prior arrests for assault with a lethal weapon, carjacking, theft, possession of an explosive devise and unlawful firearms possession.
Metka was additionally arrested in 2021 at a gasoline station in Fontana, the place he was allegedly discovered with a number of unlawful firearms and pipebombs, in keeping with the Rialto Police Division.
