Lanes at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, which was closed for hours on the night of Nov. 4 after a pursuit ended near the border. Photo: EasySentri, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A pursuit that started in Riverside County ended in a shooting near the San Ysidro Port of Entry on the night of Nov. 4, closing the crossing and southbound Interstate 5 lanes for hours, according to local television accounts that cited police, the California Highway Patrol, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. NBC 7 San Diego, in a report first published Nov. 4 and updated the next evening, said the lanes were shut around 8 p.m. when the chase ended a few hundred feet from the international border, and that CHP reopened the port and the southbound I-5 lanes at Camino De La Plaza early Thursday morning. Telemundo San Diego, which updated its account on the morning of Nov. 6, reported the same closure window and the same early-Thursday reopening.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said deputies tried to stop the driver of a suspected stolen vehicle in Jurupa Valley, near Van Buren Boulevard and Clay Street, around 6:45 p.m., both outlets reported. The driver did not yield, and the chase continued through Jurupa Valley, west on State Route 91 and south on I-5 into San Diego County, ending in San Ysidro. CBP said the suspect drove toward officers in a southbound lane, did not follow commands, and that a CBP officer fired a service weapon, according to both NBC 7 and Telemundo.
CHP said the suspect, whom law enforcement believed to be a U.S. citizen, was taken to a local hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, both accounts said. The person’s identity had not been released. No officers were hurt. The two reports differ on the day of the arrest: NBC 7 said San Diego police arrested the suspect Wednesday, while Telemundo said the arrest came Thursday. NBC 7 also reported that the FBI assisted at the scene, according to CBP, and that the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, Homeland Security Investigations and CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility were investigating the shooting.
CHP advised drivers to use other routes and told people trying to cross into Mexico to use the Otay Mesa Port of Entry while San Ysidro was closed, both outlets reported. San Diego police were continuing to investigate. Aviation crews and a K-9 unit helped in the pursuit, the sheriff’s office said, and no Riverside deputies were injured.
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