A Los Angeles County jail inmate in Castaic this month was grazed by a bullet from a close-by capturing vary utilized by the FBI, regulation enforcement officers stated Friday.
The incident occurred Aug. 9, when the inmate — who has not been recognized — was on a porch exterior the inmate housing barracks at Pitchess Detention Middle South Facility, based on the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division. The inmate reported the incident to jail employees, who found that a number of automobiles had additionally been struck by bullets.
It’s not clear how critically the inmate was harm, however officers stated an “damage report was accomplished.”
The county’s northern-most jail complicated has lengthy housed out of doors capturing ranges, together with one usually utilized by the FBI, which Sheriff’s Division investigators recognized because the supply of the errant bullet.
After the incident, the division closed the vary, though an official stated different ranges on the Castaic facility are nonetheless in use.
Final 12 months, the Sheriff’s Division additionally shut down its community of cellular vary trailers after one caught fireplace exterior the Castaic complicated, injuring one deputy and killing one other.
The FBI didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
