CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – The Lake County sheriff has identified the man believed responsible for shooting four people – and killing two of them – in Clearlake Oaks on Monday morning.
Sheriff Brian Martin said Alan Ashmore, 61, of Clearlake Oaks is being held for the shooting.
Martin said the shooting has left two people dead and two wounded, with the wounded including a California Highway Patrol officer. The officer had non-life threatening injuries, Martin said.
The shooting was first reported before 11:30 a.m. and continued at multiple locations around Clearlake Oaks, including the Clearlake Oaks Post Office, Anchor Village in the Clearlake Keys and Brassfield Winery, as Lake County News has reported.
Martin said there may be as many as eight crime scenes that are part of the investigation, including several homes on Anchor Village.
Ashmore was apprehended at around noon in a white SUV on High Valley Road by sheriff’s deputies, Lakeport Police and the California Highway Patrol, officials reported.
“Our deputies had leads from witnesses with a vehicle description. They were able to track him down and catch up with him as he fled the scene,” Martin said.
Authorities had set up a roadblock on High Valley Road, which Martin said has only one way in and one way out.
Martin said Ashmore led authorities on a four-mile pursuit until he came across the roadblock.
“And then he gave up easily,” Martin said.
The shooting involved several different firearms, including a shotgun, according to Martin.
Martin said a Chevrolet Camaro that originally was listed as having been a possible suspect vehicle turned out to involve a witness – “one of many,” he added – who was speaking with investigators.
Details on a possible criminal history for Ashmore were not immediately available.
A previous version of this story stated that the sheriff reported a total of five people had been shot, with two dead and three wounded. However, the sheriff followed up to report that there were two wounded, not three, for a total of four victims.
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