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The video starts of by showing 911 calls made describing a man hitting vehicles with a "metal object" in the parking lot near 2nd Avenue and Grand Avenue. As the video continues, an officer, identified as Martinez, first made contact with the homeless man, identified as Steven John Olson, 59, behind a business in Escondido. Officer Martinez then tells Olson to drop the crowbar, later described by police as two feet long. Credit: Escondido Police Department. Picture of the crowbar at the scene. "Steven, Steven put the crowbar down dude," Martinez is heard saying in the video. Olson is seen ap...

Transient who was fatally shot by police in Escondido ID'd KGTV and last updated 2021-04-26 22:35:37-04 ESCONDIDO (CNS) - Authorities Monday publicly identified a homeless man who allegedly advanced on an Escondido police officer in a menacing manner last week with a 2-foot-long crowbar in his hand, prompting the lawman to fatally shoot him. Steven John Olson, 59, allegedly had been hitting cars with the prying tool near the intersection of Broadway and Second Avenue when Officer Chad Moore approached him shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Escondido Police Department. Seeing the...

Officer responded to call of somebody striking vehicles with a metal rod; none found with any damage The fatal encounter unfolded around 7 a.m. last Wednesday after a 911 caller reported a man with a pry bar striking vehicles on Broadway near Second Avenue, Varso said last week. An officer arrived and tried to talk with Olson. At that point, the chief said, Olson “was not displaying any threatening behavior, and not posing a threat to police or the public,” and he ran off. A second officer, Moore, soon found Olson nearby, walking in the street and carrying the tool, Varso said last week....

ESCONDIDO (KUSI) – Authorities Monday publicly identified a homeless man who allegedly advanced on an Escondido police officer in a menacing manner last week with a 2-foot-long crowbar in his hand, prompting the lawman to fatally shoot him. Steven John Olson, 59, allegedly had been hitting cars with the prying tool near the intersection of Broadway and Second Avenue when Officer Chad Moore approached him shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Escondido Police Department. Seeing the patrolman, the suspect “immediately advanced on (him) while holding the same metal tool in a threa...

ESCONDIDO —  The fatal police shooting Wednesday of a mentally ill homeless man once again exposes the difficulties of trying to balance a person’s right to choose how they live even when those choices put them and others at risk, homeless advocates said. “I think it highlights the need for trauma-informed care for people on the street to avoid things like this happening,” said Greg Anglea, executive director of Escondido-based Interfaith Community Services. “We should not have to rely upon cops to be the first responders to mental health conditions. We really need to provide men...