![]() ![]() with a domestic disturbance call in the 1600 block of Beechwood Avenue. Tear gas was fired into house in the 2100 block of South Maple Street, and the man surrendered.Ī third SWAT episode took place in Fullerton and began at about 10:30 a.m. The building was surrounded for about six hours. A man police thought had a gun refused to let police into the premises. Thursday when a man called police to help him retrieve property from his former home. ![]() The homeowner had come to the scene during the standoff and was questioned by police.Ī second SWAT deployment took place in Santa Ana and ended without injury, police said. The identity of the dead man was not released pending identification by the Orange County coroner. ![]() The Orange County District Attorney’s Office will investigate the case, which is routine in cases of officer-involved deaths. “He was behind a bar, and a rifle was in close proximity to the body,” Petropulos said. The robot, which had a video camera, found the body of the man. A robot from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department bomb squad went inside. No communication was attempted with the man until all of the neighbors were out of the line of fire, Petropulos said.Īround 11 p.m., gas was fired into the house in an attempt to drive the man out, but there was no sign of activity inside. The man’s motive for shooting is being investigated, he said. Thursday, police responded to reports of multiple gunshots near the house in the 2300 block of Camino Escondido, Matson said. “As to the actual cause of death, that is still pending the coroner’s investigation.”Īn autopsy is scheduled for today. “Officers did fire at him, and he was struck,” Matson said. It is unclear whether police fire killed the man. The homeowner knows the dead man – police would not say how – but didn’t allow him to be in the home, Lt. The identity of the man, who did not live at the home, was not released. It was uncertain whether the man fired any shots at the officers. Officers fired shots when confronted by a man in the house brandishing an assault rifle, officials said. Police approached the house at about 6:30 p.m. The body of a man was found shortly after midnight in a Fullerton house that police had surrounded for more than six hours. The trained vocalist made his Broadway debut in 1958 in The Body Beautiful.Ī fan of Westerns, Forrest had guest starring appearances TV classics like The Virginian, Bonanza and Gunsmoke among others.One man was found dead Friday and two others surrendered after three separate episodes involving SWAT officers in Orange County. His early TV work included Playhouse 90 and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. ![]() His film credits included Prisoner of War opposite Ronald Reagan, Flaming Star with Elvis Presley, Heller In Pink Tights opposite Sophia Loren and with John Wayne in The Longest Day. He went on to work as a stagehand at the La Jolla Playhouse, where he was discovered by Hollywood icon Gregory Peck, who cast Forrest in a summer stock production of Goodbye Again and later arranged for his first screen test with MGM. He later moved to LA and graduated from UCLA in 1950 with a theater arts degree. he had a cameo in the 2003 feature adaptation - and starred as John “The Baron” Mannering on the 1966 Cold War spy drama The Baron, the first color series on UK TV.įorrest, from Texas, was a sergeant in the Army and saw action in the Battle of the Bulge. Hondo Harrelson on ABC’s 1975-76 police actioner S.W.A.T. The brother of actor Dana Andrews, Forrest made guest appearances on scores of TV shows and recurred on the original Dallas. Veteran actor Steve Forrest, who had more than 100 TV credits including starring on the mid-1970s police actioner S.W.A.T., died May 18 in Thousand Oaks. ![]()
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