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The suspect in the fatal shooting of a California sheriff’s detective Thursday was himself killed amid a standoff \u2014 and a local sheriff unapologetically spelled out what went down for reporters and the public.<\/p>\n
“We intentionally ran him over. … You shoot at cops, we’re going to run you over,” Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said Thursday, KSEE-TV reported<\/a>. “He got run over; he got what he deserved.”<\/p>\n ‘This situation went from a civil order of removal to where our officer was shot and killed. This is senseless.’<\/p>\n “The suspect was lying prone on the ground, in camouflage clothing, continuing to pose a threat,” Boudreaux said later during a news conference, according to Fox News<\/a>. “The situation was resolved, and the suspect is now dead.”<\/p>\n Boudreaux said in a Thursday evening news conference that a BearCat armored vehicle operated by the Kern County Sheriff’s Office ran over the suspect \u2014 59-year-old David Morales \u2014 following an hours-long standoff, KSEE said.<\/p>\n “He was not shot,” Boudreaux said of Morales, Fox News noted. “One of the BearCats ran over him and killed him.”<\/p>\n The incident began when an eviction notice served at a home in Porterville escalated into a shooting, KSEE said. Porterville is about an hour north of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n RELATED: <\/strong>Father whose son was killed in police shooting is accused of murdering recently retired sheriff’s deputy the very next day<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n