{"id":175480,"date":"2025-10-24T11:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=175480"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:40:39","slug":"coast-guard-personnel-fire-in-direction-of-a-u-haul-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175480","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard personnel fire in direction of a U-Haul truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Security-at-California-Coast-Guard-base-opens-fire-on-U-Haul-truck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-175481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Security-at-California-Coast-Guard-base-opens-fire-on-U-Haul-truck-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Security-at-California-Coast-Guard-base-opens-fire-on-U-Haul-truck-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Security-at-California-Coast-Guard-base-opens-fire-on-U-Haul-truck-500x283.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Security-at-California-Coast-Guard-base-opens-fire-on-U-Haul-truck-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Security-at-California-Coast-Guard-base-opens-fire-on-U-Haul-truck.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A driver of a U-Haul truck drove in a way that caused security personnel to verbally command the driver to stop. Instead of following instructions, the driver kept the truck in motion, backing it towards the entrance. Entrance security personnel fired in the direction of the truck; the driver fled after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Coast Guard said security personnel standing watch on Coast Guard Island had witnessed the U-Haul truck &#8220;driving erratically and attempting to back into the base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officers at the entrance then &#8220;discharged several rounds of live fire&#8221; after the driver of the U-Haul ignored &#8220;multiple verbal commands&#8221; to stop and then proceeded to back in toward the base&#8217;s entrance, according to the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the vehicle\u2019s actions posed a direct threat to the safety of Coast Guard and security personnel, law enforcement officers discharged several rounds of live fire,&#8221; the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard confirmed no personnel were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The U-Haul had been parked outside the base for the better part of the day, CBS reported. The driver then fled after the shooting, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs from the aftermath of the scene show officials inspecting the abandoned box truck.<\/p>\n<p>Two men arrived at local hospitals for gunshot wounds after the shooting, according to The Mercury News. One of them is believed to be the driver of the U-Haul, the outlet said, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>The incident followed a protest outside the entrance on Thursday, during which demonstrators attempted to block U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents from entering the base, according to WABC-TV.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pritchett, E., &amp; Dorgan, M. (2025, October 24). Security at California Coast Guard base opens fire on U-Haul truck posing &#8216;direct threat&#8217;. <em>Fox News<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/security-california-coast-guard-base-opens-fire-truck-posing-direct-threat\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver of a U-Haul truck drove in a way that caused security personnel to verbally &hellip; <a title=\"Coast Guard personnel fire in direction of a U-Haul truck\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175480\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coast Guard personnel fire in direction of a U-Haul truck<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}