A man allegedly opened fire on law enforcement officers Monday night and is holed up in a dumpster with another person on the San Diego High School campus.
Christopher Marquez is wanted for allegedly opening fire on a bounty hunter trying to take him into custody last month.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A fugitive wanted in connection with two shootings within the last month was fatally shot by SWAT officers Tuesday morning during a standoff at San Diego High School, according to police.
Christopher Templo Marquez, 36, was shot by two SWAT officers at San Diego High School on Park Boulevard.
A San Diego police official told the station that the officers shot Marquez, who was seen carrying a rifle, after he pushed a woman he was holed up with to the ground and she began screaming.
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Authorities asked the public Tuesday for help in tracking down a felon suspected of shooting a private investigator and firing on police on separate occasions to evade arrest in the South Bay.
The first of the two shootings allegedly committed by 36-year-old Christopher Templo Marquez over the last three weeks left the private investigator with non-lethal bullet wounds in Chula Vista, authorities reported.
The second shooting did not injure the officers, who returned fire as the suspect made his escape by running across Interstate 5 in National City.
The shootout with police occurred about 2:45 a.m. Monday, after the driver of a stolen car Marquez was riding in was pulled over outside a Jack in the Box on Roosevelt Avenue near Seventh Street, National City police Lt. David Bavencoff said.