{"id":2696,"date":"2026-08-20T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:58:10","slug":"california-deputy-shoots-suspect-holding-manhostage-with-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"California Deputy Shoots Suspect Holding ManHostage With Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"400\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 400;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_2937.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A\u00a0California\u00a0deputy fatally shot a suspect threatening to kill a hostage with a 10-inch hunting knife, dramatic video shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The footage,\u00a0released Wednesday by the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office, shows suspect Deven Karl Moore, 25, telling deputies to stay away as he held an elderly man hostage at a business yard in Oildale on Feb. 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBack away!\u201d Moore yelled to approaching deputies. \u201cBack away! Back off of me now! Put your weapon away! You\u2019re f\u2013king with me!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moore then threatened to stab the man while holding a large knife to his neck inside a small shack, the clip shows \u2014 prompting Deputy Austin Burgess to open fire, killing him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"738\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-15.png 738w, https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-15-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGo, go,\u201d deputies told the hostage after shooting Moore, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The elderly man was unharmed, department officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moments earlier, a 911 caller told deputies an armed suspect was assaulting a family member in the 3200 block of State Road, where Moore was allegedly running around with a sledgehammer and knocking out windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A second 911 caller at a nearby business told deputies a suspect armed with a sledgehammer and a knife had terrorized him and told him to leave. Responding deputies encountered Moore, but he ignored commands to stop and ran off, footage shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just prior to taking the man hostage, Moore disregarded a deputy\u2019s order to drop the knife and a fire extinguisher that he deployed in an attempt to conceal his movements, according to department officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDeven, stop!\u201d one deputy told him. \u201cDon\u2019t give yourself any more trouble, bro. Just stop and drop the knife and drop the fire extinguisher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The use of force in the fatal deputy-involved shooting was determined to be within department policy, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kernsheriff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burgess was placed on routine administrative leave after the deadly shooting while the department\u2019s findings have been turned over to prosecutors for review of possible criminal charges, sheriff officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0California\u00a0deputy fatally shot a suspect threatening to kill a hostage with a 10-inch hunting knife, dramatic video shows. The footage,\u00a0released Wednesday by the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office, shows suspect Deven &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}