A man is shot by a Parkway Ranger (who also shot a man threatening her and her partner with a knife in Discovery Park in 1991) in the Parkway and a chase ensues, man arrested.
An excerpt.
Man is shot in park melee
He was stopped by a ranger on American River Parkway for questioning.
By David Richie -- Bee Staff WriterPublished 12:01 am PDT Tuesday, August 22, 2006
A man was shot by a Sacramento County park ranger Monday morning but escaped briefly into Fair Oaks above Sailor Bar, where he allegedly carjacked a vehicle only to wreck it a few moments later, investigators said.
The incident started about 9:45 a.m. when a park ranger identified by a dispatcher as Kathleen Utley tried to investigate a white Ford Focus parked near the Illinois Avenue entrance to Sailor Bar on the American River.
Sheriff's Sgt. Tim Curran said the vehicle matched the description of a car used in a recent burglary.
Curran said the car was occupied by a man and woman and it looked as if they had just finished changing a tire.
"The man tried to walk away, but the ranger stopped him," Curran said.
The man, later identified by sheriff's investigators as Karlawan Seunarine II, started fighting with Utley when she tried to do a pat-down search.
"He produced a weapon, either a knife or a screwdriver, and the ranger shot him," Curran said.
He gave this sequence of the events that followed:
Although hit in the upper body, the man got back into the Ford Focus and drove away. He collided with another car a few blocks north at Illinois Avenue and Winding Way.
When another driver stopped to make sure everybody was OK, Seunarine stole that car. He barreled west down a steep hill on Winding Way, where he lost control and rolled the car into a ditch.
The suspect was still inside when emergency personnel arrived to extricate him and transport him to Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael, Curran said.
Seunarine was out of surgery by mid-afternoon and later was released. He was under arrest and being interviewed, but it was not yet clear what offenses he would be charged with, Curran said.
The suspect had a domestic violence-related warrant for his arrest out of Yolo County but not much else was known about him, Curran said.
