Update: Man shot in Modesto Police incident has died, authorities say
A man with a gun was shot and killed by Modesto Police on Monday night, authorities said.
At 9:30 p.m., officers were called to the area of West Orangeburg Avenue just east of Enslen Avenue and encountered an adult male with a gun, Modesto police said a post on the department Facebook page.
“During the brief contact, the male was shot by our officers,” according to Sharon Bear, spokeswoman for the Modesto Police Department.
The man, whose age and identity were not released, was taken to Doctors Medical Center, where he died from his wounds.
Two officers were involved in the shooting, Bear said. No officers were injured in the incident.
There was no immediate information on what led to the shooting or what type of threat the person posed to officers.
There were reports of multiple gunshots in the area. Within minutes of the shooting, several law enforcement personnel arrived on scene. By 11:30 p.m., some could be seen with their flashlights walking west on Orangeburg combing the area for evidence.
Just before midnight, the department’s crime scene truck arrived, and detectives and other personnel worked into the night.
West Orangeburg was closed off to traffic about 1,000 yards on either side of the central crime scene and there was no access to the road from either side of Enslen.
It was the first reported officer-involved shooting involving Modesto Police this year. Department officers were involved in two last November, including a November fatal shooting at a motel on West Orangeburg Avenue.
Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager cleared the involved officer in that shooting last week.
We’ll have more on this breaking story later today.
This story was originally published May 26, 2020 at 12:35 AM.
