Shortly after resuming the manhunt Thursday morning, Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies shot and killed the suspect in Wednesday's mass shooting at a rock quarry, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
A positive identification of the person who was shot was not immediately announced, but John Pilger with the city of Sunnyvale said the man fits the description of suspect Shereef Allman.
Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith arrived at the scene around 8:30 a.m. in preparation for a news conference which will be held at the sheriff's office at 11:30 a.m
KGO's Terry McSweeney says the person who lives in the home where the suspect was shot was on vacation until Thursday. McSweeney said upon returning home he was weary because he knew a suspect was possibly on the loose in his neighborhood so he reached out to police. That call could have been what sparked the discovery and the shooting.
The Mercury News reported that Allman knew someone who lives on the street. We expect to learn was lead to the development during Smith's news conference.
Views from a helicopter camera shot show a yellow tarp covering what appears to be a body in front of a home's garage on the Lorne Way in Sunnyvale. There were more than a dozen shell-casing markings in the front yard which points to signs of a shoot out. Police would not immediately confirm if the suspect and the deputy exchanged fire. Pilger would only describe it as "an encounter."
An "officer assist" call was reported at 7:41 a.m. this morning, according to an emailed report from authorities.
Allman was the target of a massive search of the exact same area Wednesday.
He is a suspect in a workplace shooting at a cement plant left three dead and six injured. A tenth person, a woman, was injured during a failed carjacking three hours later and five miles away in a Hewlett-Packard parking lot.
Allman, of San Jose, was reportedly a disgruntled employee of a rock quarry and cement plant in Cupertino, according to a relative of one of those killed. Coworkers said that he was a normally happy go lucky guy, but something changed in his demeanor on Tuesday.
Click here for the original report of the attack at the Lehigh Permanente plant.
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