A police officer shot a man after he threatened him with a large hunting knife in front of a fast-food restaurant, police reported.

The man from El Cajon was running after a pedestrian while armed with a knife by a Jack in the Box located on North Second Street at Madison Avenue when El Cajon police Officer Nick Sprecco came to the location around 10:40 a.m. Friday. The man started to come after Sprecco, reported El Cajon police Lt. Mark Coit. Sprecco took steps backward and demanded that the man put the knife down multiple times, but he denied his request, Coit stated.

The officer “was continually backing up, telling him to drop the knife. The guy keeps advancing on the officer and he finally fires several rounds, striking the suspect multiple times,” Coit reported.

Officials think that Sprecco shot the gun a minimum of five times, Coit stated. The man was struck in his chest and leg.

Sprecco and other officers started to give the man medical aid in the mean time before the paramedics came to transport the man to a hospital.

Coit reported that he believed the tests would show if the man was drunk or had taken drugs. Officials are also looking into the case to find out if the man attacked any other civilians other that the pedestrian, Coit added.

Sprecco, a motorcycle officer, is the son of El Cajon Police Chief Pat Sprecco, reported Monica Zech, a spokeswoman for the city of El Cajon. He has worked as an officer for nine years.

An 18-year-old man was wounded on Tuesday night in what is believed to have been a gang-affiliated shooting in San Ysidro, police reported.

San Diego police informed that gang detectives were heading over to the location to look into the case. The shooting was called in around 10:10 p.m. at East Park and East Hall avenues.

Medics were assisting the victim, who was struck in the arm.

Police are currently looking into a case in which one person was shot and killed in the College Area near La Mesa.

The shooting was called in around 11:45 a.m. on El Cajon Boulevard near 70th Street at the Roman Villas apartments, San Diego police stated.

Officers were looking for two men thought to be the suspects in the shooting, both around the age of 20 and who were seen fleeing from the location.

No more details regarding the victim or the conditions were given right away.

According to San Diego police, a 20-year-old man was wounded in a gang-related shooting Monday night in the Bay Terraces neighborhood.

The man suffered a bullet wound in the leg. The severity of the injury was not known right away.

Police are still looking into the incident to find out where the shooting took place. It was called in around 7:40 p.m.

Escondido police are searching for a man who injured a woman in a shooting on a group of people on Friday evening.

The victim was at the Hacienda Hotel located on North Broadway near Mission Avenue around 9:40 p.m. when she was hit in the stomach with a gunshot, Escondido police reported.

Witnesses reported a white sedan traveling north on Broadway pulled over and a passenger exited the vehicle and opened fire, police stated. He then stepped back inside the car and went on traveling north.

The suspect was said to be a Latino male adult dressed in a dark shirt and blue jeans. There was no description of the driver or any more details regarding the car they drove, police reported.

The victim was transported to Palomar Medical Center where they performed surgery to remove the bullet. She is expected to survive.

A man charged in the murder of his girlfriend’s former husband and then escaping officers for hours was taken into custody on Sunday in Normal Heights.

The men, who are both around the age of 40, were at an apartment on Oakcrest Drive near University Avenue in City Heights around 11 p.m. Saturday when they got into a dispute, San Diego police reported. 

The boyfriend took out his handgun and fired at the other man in the face and then took off, police stated. 

He was located a short time later at an apartment at 33rd Street and Madison Avenue and a police SWAT team was called after the man refused to come out, police said.

They made deals with him for hours until 5:30 a.m. when he gave up and turned himself over to authorities to be arrested. 

There was also a 10-year-old boy at the scene of the crime sleeping inside on he couch. He was not hurt, police assured. 

The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to live, police stated.

A 20-year-old man was a victim of a shooting in Lincoln Park Monday afternoon after an argument erupted that police have come to believe is gang-related. 

The victim was with a group of men on 47th Street and Logan Avenue around 3 p.m. when they got in a fight with another group of men in a Ford Mustang, San Diego police stated. Both groups of men initiated gang signs and challenges and the fight was underway. 

One of the men in the group shot his gun at the vehicle, police reported. The victim was discovered about a block away form the scene on T Street with two gunshot injuries. One bullet hit his arm and the other his his leg, police stated. 

Gang detectives are working on the case.

Two suspects in a marijuana robbery and shooting have been taken into custody in Colorado, the Sheriff’s Department reported Thursday.

The victim met up with one of the men at a marijuana dispensary in San Diego on April 20 and asked him if he wanted to smoke pot with him at his house located on Buena Vista Drive the following day, stated Vista sheriff’s Sgt. Art Wager.

The victim walked to his room to get the drugs and the man shot him with a gun, but did not hit him. Another thief then burst into the home and ordered to be given money. The two robbers took the money, pot, a piece and a cell phone before they took off in a dark sedan.

A description of the thieves allowed police to find the thieves. Sheriff’s investigators were told that the two were taken into custody  in Grand Junction, Colo., on charges of transporting marijuana. Police found a gun thought to be used in the Vista shooting, along with some more evidence from the robbers car, Wager stated. 

 Andre Free and Phillip Miller, both 25 and from Kansas, are being held in prison in Colorado. The Sheriff’s Department is suggesting that the two should be charged with attempted murder and robbery in the incident.

Residents in a Colina del Sol home were suddenly woken up by the firing of a shotgun into their windows on Friday morning, luckily no was hurt in the incident, San Diego police reported.  

The shooting took place a little before 4 a.m. on Estrella Avenue by Trojan Avenue, stated San Diego police Sgt. Ray Battrick.

It was reported that seven shotgun rounds were triggered at the home, breaking multiple windows. 

No suspect was spotted,  but a dark-colored Toyota sedan was seen taking off from the location during the time the shots went off, Battrick reported.

The county Sheriff’s Department is currently looking into a shooting that took place Friday night in which a 33-year-old man was found with a bullet wound in the stomach.

A woman dialed 911 at 5:20 p.m. Friday to inform officials that her boyfriend had been hit by a bullet. Deputies came to the scene located at Eucalyptus Avenue and Alestar Street in Vista to discover the man, Marvin Mace, hurt but expected him to survive.

Mace, who was wanted for a federal parole violation warrant, was transported to a hospital. Deputies searched the scene and came across a large sum of money and some drugs in clear view.

A sheriff’s gang team and detective are taking over the case.