Watsonville Police Officer Shoots Armed Suspect Charging With Knife

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Watsonville, California — On Saturday, August 3, 2024, at 9:19 p.m. a man called the Santa Cruz Regional 911 Dispatch Center to report that he was armed with a knife and that he was going to hurt his three-year-old stepdaughter. The first responding officer from the Watsonville Police Department arrives at the front parking lot of the police station when the man was still on the phone with the dispatch center. As soon as the officer stepped out of his patrol car he ordered the man to drop the knife he was holding. However, the suspect ignored his commands and charged at the Officer, who in return fired five shots from his department-issued weapon, injuring the suspect. The first responding officer reports the shooting over his radio. Additional officers rush to the scene.

They first ensured the suspect no longer had any weapons, cuffed him as part of standard safety procedure and then proceeded to render aid. The suspect, 25-year-old Joshua Gonzalez was struck by gunfire multiple times. He was transported to an out-of-county trauma center for his injuries. His three-year-old stepdaughter was unharmed and was placed under the care of her mother's family. Through the course of the investigation, WPD officers filed a Missing Persons Report for 25-year-old Lizbeth Arceo Sedano, Gonzalez's partner. About 12 hours after the officer-involved shooting, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department recovered Lizbeth's body near Eureka Canyon Road and Grizzly Flat Road.

Gonzalez is now facing the following charges:

– Murder of Lizbeth Arceo Sedano

– Attempted murder of an Officer

– Assault with a deadly weapon on an officer

– Child endangerment of his three-year-old stepdaughter

– Trying to prevent an Officer from performing duty

At 1:26 you can hear the little girl's voice that was on the 911 call.

Hearing the baby say “hi” really made me sob uncontrollably because my 2 year old son just started saying it and it Almost sound like him😞😞

If that gun had been pulled less than half a second later that officer would have been stabbed

You get what you vote for, liberals

why did they ask the cop to be isolated?

Dang, Watsonville is like 20 minutes from me. Crazy.

That was a suicide by cop

emimigenccy

"I'm a dangerous guy"
Immediately gets smoked 😂

this is a great example of how quickly an offender can cover distance. distance is a police officers friend. when people always say "he should have tasered him, he only had a knife" they don't realise that someone can run at police and cover distance so quickly.

this is where the "21 foot rule" comes from – but in actual fact, police need more than 21 feet of distance to be "safe" from a fast-moving offender carrying a weapon.

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In our country there is no such authorization for these situations. Police officers sometimes get injured or killed. That's exactly why I think this authorization given to the police by the United States of America is right.

please single moms.. don’t just lay with any idiot?? your kids should come first!!! i see tons of cases of single moms dating thugs and violent criminals.. i don’t care what they do to you, just think about the poor children first

That's crazy fr I hope the little girl recovers from this nightmare😢

Sad story the mother is dead and the poor girl has lost her mother only at 3 years old and went through all that other trauma. I feel so bad for that kid that is something you never get over.

Blatant suicide by cop. How self centered can you be to not only commit suicide, but to force another person to live with having to do it. Eew!!! Terrible person.

For those of you sympathizers.. this is the 21 foot rule

Leftist in California: "It was just a knife, why did they have to shoot him?"

DACA showing how they are making America better……

To that future little girl: You have a Father in heaven! He sent His only Son to die for you, that’s how much He loves you! Don’t make the mistakes of your loved ones who have passed. The devil is like a hungry lion, constantly looking for who ever he can devour. Be weary and stay away from him and his followers. Get saved and follow the teachings of The Lord. Join a proper trinitarian church that doesn’t endorse sinning. Stay clean, exercise for stress relief, don’t do drugs. Research anything you put in your body. Don’t blindly trust, even if someone is an “expert.”. There is nothing wrong with verifying someone’s claims. Read your Bible, and pray pray pray. Edit: Also, remember to say ‘yes mam’ and ‘no mam’ to older women, and ‘yes sir’ and ‘no sir’ to older men.

The boys on the cell block are not gonna treat him nice when they hear about what he did…

Is there a kid in the car?