Posts Tagged :

Saugus

DEPUTIES AND PEOPLE STANDING
DODGERS MEET SCV DEPS SAUGUS HIGH KIDS 954 450 SIB Staff

DODGERS MEET SCV DEPS SAUGUS HIGH KIDS

Saugus High Students, LASD, AND First Responders meet/greet members of the Los Angeles Dodgers

Two months after the tragic and deadly shooting at Saugus High School, players from the L.A. Dodgers Surprised Saugus High School Students during one of their campus pep rallies Friday morning. 

Students were in awe as they had the chance to meet and play games with some of the players. While others were getting jerseys signed by the athletes. Players like, Austin Barnes, Matt Beaty, Walker Buehler, Caleb Ferguson, Dylan, Floro, Kyle Garlick, Tony Gonsolin, Adam Kolarek, Gavin Lux, Dustin May, Zach McKinstry, Max Muncy, Justin Turner and Jimmy Nelson offered words of encouragement and support for students.

As part of the “Dodgers Love LA Community Tour”, a week-long engagement where the Los Angeles Dodger players, alumni and employees partner with community based organizations to help promote and support work that positively changes the lives of children, teens, and adults, Dodger players focused on showing gratitude to Santa Clarita Valley Station Deputies, first responders, other law enforcement agencies and military servicemen who came to assist the students at Saugus High School. 

After the rally at Saugus High, players visited Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station and had lunch with Sheriff Alex Villanueva and station personnel.  Sheriff Alex Villanueva said “I want to thank the LA Dodgers and their organization for offering support to our personnel, and the students of this community.  This team is an integral part of LA County, we all root and support them during their season.  And it was wonderful to see them come up here and show support for all of us in the Santa Clarita Valley that were affected by this senseless tragedy.”

LASD Sheriff's Department Logo
Saugus High School Shooting 800 170 SIB Staff

Saugus High School Shooting

Homicide Investigating Saugus High School Shooting

At 7:38 AM, Santa Clarita Station received a call about an Assault with a Deadly Weapon at 21900 Centurion Way in Santa Clarita at Saugus High School. Santa Clarita deputies arrived within 2 minutes and realized it was an Active Shooter situation.

Deputies conducted a rapid deployment onto the school’s premises. Upon their arrival, they discovered 6 students in the quad area suffering from gunshot wounds. The students were triaged and sent to local area hospitals. The suspect was identified as one of students found in the quad. He is identified as a 16 year old male Asian, whose birthday was today.

The weapon recovered on scene was a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol, which no longer contained ammunition. The suspect is a resident of the 22900 block of Sycamore Creek Street Drive in Santa Clarita. That location was contained by Sheriff Deputies and a cursory search was conducted to identify any additional victims or suspects. A search warrant for the location was obtained by investigators to process the residence further evidence.

Homicide teams were deployed to several Santa Clarita Valley locations to process evidence and interview witnesses. Students who were possible witnesses to the incident are being interviewed by detectives from the LASD Homicide Bureau. We also have investigators working with the tech crews processing any videos we may receive from the surveillance system at the high school. We’re working and collaborating with the FBI to preserve and capture any cell phone video of this incident.

Detectives have reviewed the video at the scene, which shows the subject in the quad area remove a firearm from his backpack. He then shoots 5 people, and then shoots himself. The suspect is in critical condition at a local hospital. Unfortunately, a 16 year old female victim passed away at 9:23 AM and a male victim passed away at 11:31 AM. Three additional victims, one 15 year old female and one 14 year old female, and one male who is 14 years old are in stable condition at a local hospitals. This is preliminary information.

A social media account has been reported as possibly belonging to the suspect. The social media account stated, “Saugus have fun at school tomorrow.” However, the account has yet to be authenticated and it is unknown if this was posted by the suspect. Detectives have checked recent threats to the high school and have investigated two, but neither had a nexus to this incident. The investigation is on-going and anybody with information regarding the incident is encouraged to call the Los Angeles County Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.