Neighbor shot by deputies during Rancho Cordova standoff
Deputies: Neighbor not facing any charges
A man who held a cellphone out of his garage door to see what was happening during a police standoff in Rancho Cordova was shot and injured by Sacramento sheriff's deputies.
On Friday, Danny Sanchez was undergoing surgery at UC Davis Medical Center to remove bullet fragments after he was hit by deputies' bullets, according to his father, John Sanchez.
The deputies involved in the shooting were placed on standard paid administrative leave.
As a SWAT team was trying to apprehend Ben Ledford, 62, for firing a machine gun across the street, authorities said they saw another man in the neighboring home go out to the edge of the garage and extend his arm with an object in it.
Sanchez's father John "Sonny" Sanchez said the object was a cellphone and his son was trying to videotape the arrest of Ledford, when he was shot in the leg.
“He was yelling, 'Dad I’m shot, I’m shot,' so I grabbed him inside and closed the garage door. I put a tourniquet around his leg and a clean towel," John Sanchez said.
Sanchez pointed out four bullet holes in his garage and several more in his car.
“You
can see how many shots they did: one, two three, four -- shooting at my
son with a cell phone. C’mon that’s ridiculous," Sanchez said.
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