Roseville Police Department1051 Junction Blvd.
Roseville, CA 95678
916-774-5015

9/24/2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE #12-24 (updated)
Subject :

Officer-involved shooting
Contact :Dee Dee Gunther, Police Public Information Officer    916-774-5015/257-1942
    ddgunther@roseville.ca.us
This release was updated 9/24/2012 to include the name of the deceased suspect., and to correct the location of the confrontation.
********************************
At 10:53 p.m. Saturday, September 22, Roseville Police Department officers responded to a domestic disturbance at a residence in the 1600 block of Sierra Gardens Drive.  The male involved had pushed the woman, and was reported to be very intoxicated and armed with a baseball bat.

As officers were responding, the man fled on foot through the residential neighborhood.  A resident on Tanglewood Lane reported seeing a man running and holding a gun.  The suspect returned to the 1600 block of Sierra Gardens Drive, where officers contacted him and attempted to take him into custody.  He resisted and got into a physical altercation with one of the officers.  The other officer at the scene, fearing for the safety of his fellow officer, shot the male suspect. 

The male, Paul Lawson Storey, 35, of  Roseville, was pronounced deceased at the scene. 

The incident is being investigated by the Roseville Police Investigations Unit, and the investigation will be monitored by the Placer County District Attorney’s Office according to the department’s protocol for officer-involved shootings.  The two officers involved have been placed on paid administrative leave, also according to department protocol.

 



12-10080

###