[UPDATE 6:03 p.m.] Active Shooter in Clearlake Oaks; Residents Asked to Shelter in Place

Emergency vehicle. Cop car light bar

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The Lake County Sheriff issued the following statement at 11:52 a.m.:

Everyone near the Clearlake Oaks Post Office should shelter in place. There has been a shooting in the area.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office is alerting residents to a dangerous situation.

A shooting has occurred in the vicintity of the Clearlake Oaks Post Office.

Stay indoors and out of sight until further notice

UPDATE 12:08 p.m.: The Post Office is on the north side of Hwy 20. https://www.google.com/maps/place/13280+State+Hwy+20,+Clearlake+Oaks,+CA+95423/@39.0215507,-122.6657376,15.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x80838dafe2367bdf:0xd8e97fef98260aa2!8m2!3d39.0266019!4d-122.6618094

UPDATE 12:15 p.m.: The suspect is in custody and a patient has been “turned over to medic…”, according to scanner traffic but there are two wildland fires in the area that firefighters have been not allowed to fight because of the shooting incident. Now they are being released to fight the two seperate incidents that are an acre apart.
UPDATE 12:42 p.m.: According to scanner traffic, a woman, reportedly the girlfriend of the shooter, walked into the hospital with a gunshot wound.
UPDATE 1 p.m.:
Lake County News is reporting that there are two fatalities, according to that County’s Sheriff.
UPDATE 1:34 p.m.: The shelter in place order has been lifted by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.

UPDATE 6:03 p.m.: Lake County News has more on the story…https://www.lakeconews.com/index.php/news/52819-sheriff-releases-new-details-on-fatal-clearlake-oaks-shooting-spree

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Taurus Ballzhof
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Taurus Ballzhof
6 years ago

Lake county, great…

Gasquet
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Gasquet
6 years ago

Del Norge high school was just evacuated. Students sent home.

Life is Good
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Life is Good
6 years ago

Upper Lake is very nice but the rest of Hwy 20 is the Methampetimine Highway.

Shel
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Shel
6 years ago
Reply to  Life is Good

Are you sure about that? UL has been full of druggies and alkies for generations upon generation!

Taurus Ballzhoff
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Taurus Ballzhoff
6 years ago
Reply to  Life is Good

Buckingham is great, but Clear Lake in general is retired poor people, and tweakers and slackers who are scamming another day, somehow… Kinda like Humboldt!

Dan Fuller
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Dan Fuller
6 years ago

Just what they need after the fires, a nut with a gun shooting the sh!t out of everything including people I’m sure if they are unlucky enough, to be in the wrong place at the wrong time!!!! Sad is an understatement for this type of thing!!!

s
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s
6 years ago

When I heard fire, I did not expect gun fire.

Kristine
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Kristine
6 years ago

There was 2 fires! The fire fighters couldnt get to because of gunfire! Its nonsense!

HOGRANCH
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HOGRANCH
6 years ago

IT IS WHAT IT IS, SOMEWHERE ITS SAID YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW, AS LONG AS PEOPLE ARE COMFORTABLE WITH DRUG USERS NEXT DOOR, OR IN THE SAME HOUSE, THIS CAN HAPPEN, MAYBE NOT ALL THE TIME, BUT EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE. ITS YOUR LIFE AND YOUR CHOICE.

Mike
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Mike
6 years ago
Reply to  HOGRANCH

Nice…

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
6 years ago
Reply to  HOGRANCH

What drug is it that makes you fall asleep on your shift key?

Anon Forrest
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6 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

Ha ha ha ha… (thanks)

Andrew
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Andrew
6 years ago

Drug users should never be toleraterated, they should move along. But that shooter isn’t local; not some local tweeker; it’s probably someone more sophisticated than that with some agenda; somebody wants Californians out; somebody wants the land; land grab.

Dan Fuller
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Dan Fuller
6 years ago
Reply to  Andrew

Conspiracy theory much???

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Fuller

i am going to go with conservative racist wingnut that raised a tweaker.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago
Reply to  Andrew

Alan Ashmore, 61, of Clearlake Oaks is being held for the shooting. multiple guns used in the shooting. sounds like a local gun nut suffering from mental illness to me.

Diamond
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Diamond
6 years ago
Reply to  local observer

No…just a man. If they don’t get their way, the GF has to die…oh yeah AND her entire family!

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago
Reply to  Diamond

99.8% of mass shootings in the US are by men. this one is on the list as a mass shooting.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago
Reply to  local observer

I try every day not to be evil. most days I fail.

Ice
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Ice
6 years ago
Reply to  local observer

100% of men are caused by women.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago

4 victims not including the shooter. this was a mass shooting. as of yesterday it was 292 for 2017. who knows how many today, at least one.

John Kile
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John Kile
6 years ago

An acre is a measure of area, not distance.
“Now they are being released to fight the two seperate incidents that are an acre apart.”

Dan Fuller
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Dan Fuller
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Scanner traffic is not always Politically or Grammatically correct it is often spoken hurriedly on the fly!!!

Justsaying
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Justsaying
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

You dont have to respond to junk like that

Gasquet
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Gasquet
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Did you get my post?

Mercy Me, Mabel!
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Mercy Me, Mabel!
6 years ago

It is still October and it is therefore still National Domestic Violence Awareness month.

Please get involved so someday we can commemorate the end to nightmare scenarios like this one.

Wtfrigginfrak
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Wtfrigginfrak
6 years ago

Thank you mabel!!
I think the police ought to make clear in crimes whether the parties knew each other or not.

Even kids get that domestic violence perps shouldnt have guns. How many women and their families have to die before we start holding men accountable?

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/us/cub-scout-colorado.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=https://t.co/4J0RF8RhEZ

Freedom Club
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Freedom Club
6 years ago
Reply to  Wtfrigginfrak

However many it takes until people like you stop your sexist campaign against men.

Bruce
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Bruce
6 years ago
Reply to  Freedom Club

This person just said that women have to keep being killed by men until “you stop your sexist campaign against men.” Amazing.

Freedom Club
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Freedom Club
6 years ago
Reply to  Bruce

Well there are plenty of women who abuse men so where is the mention of their responsibility. How about instead of making gender generalizations you just call them people, humans, homo sapiens? If someone ever uses “women” to generalize people jump all over them. I guess double standards just aren’t really my thing.

RC
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RC
6 years ago

Come on.
Just because a shooting happens in lake county, some moron has to bring meth into the picture.
We know nothing yet!
We know nothing about the shooter except that he is 61 years old.
Maybe he is from sonoma or mendo county. Maybe he is from out of state.
I live in the oaks, across the street from one of the crime scenes. Its a wonderful neighborhood, great neighbors.
Bad rap!
Get a grip!

Leroy Dennings U.S.N.
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Leroy Dennings U.S.N.
6 years ago

another , lazy, anti cop , welfare, liberal nut with guns ,,,lesson never give a liberal a mans gun ,,they just get to emotional .. pray for those involved,, gota give love to the police and CHP,, I saw them all putting there lives at risk today you guys are frickin hero,s ,, and one more thing , liberals they want everyone free from prisons..open border..all free shit for everyone ,,well dumb shits this is what you get in return shit just like this ..grew up in so cal watched as year after year the liberals f//ck up this state and country ….had to move out of my town wasent safe for white people anymore. yea fuck liberal ..now watch the liberals ship all the convicts. all the scum to clearlake ..oh wait they already have been for years that why clearlake is number 10 highest crime rate in the U.S. .

Anon Forrest
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6 years ago

“…wasent safe for white people…” Feeling safer now?

spankie
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spankie
6 years ago

We don’t know why. Sheet, probably somebody lost their mind somehow.
F u judgemental assh*les, spare us yr platitudes!

Ticket the Texting Drivers
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Ticket the Texting Drivers
6 years ago

If the cops gave a $2 ticket to every texting driver,the cities would be rich!!

Freedom Club
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Freedom Club
6 years ago

THIS!!!

Lone ranger
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Lone ranger
6 years ago

And the harvest season comes again

Deb M
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Deb M
6 years ago

Clearlake Oaks is not what it used to be. There are plenty of meth heads living on my street. For those of us who don’t actually live there full time, we have to be worried about our homes being broke into or vandalized. It’s gotten to the point people are stealing my water so I have to put a lock box on it. The drug situation has escalated in that area. It’s very sad bc it used to be a nice little lake community.

As far as the shooting, it is vey sad that one nut job had destroyed others lives. This will surely get the liberals harping about gun restrictions again. Guns don’t kill people, stupid people with guns kill people. You ban guns and the only people that will have them are the criminals. Think about it, that’s like saying cars kill people rather then the driver.

yesmeagain
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yesmeagain
6 years ago
Reply to  Deb M

Deb M has my sympathy re “Clearlake Oaks is not what it used to be.” But actually NO place is “what it used to be.” Drugs, shootings, homelessness, nut jobs with and without guns …. these are not specific to any particular area. They’re everywhere. They’re in high end neighborhoods, just not as conspicuous because people with money can hide their troubles better.
When you compare guns with cars, think about this. In order to drive a car legally, a person has to pass a couple of tests and get a license. The car has to be registered. You have to have insurance. You can be asked to show proof of your license, your registration, and your insurance by an officer of the law at any time, for any reason, or none. So why not license people to use guns, support registration of all guns, and require gun users to have insurance specific to gun use. Why not?
I might add that while cars kill and injure more people than guns do, the vast majority of adults use cars, and use them almost every day. I hope this is not true of guns.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago

this made the Mass Shooting list. as of yesterday its 293 for the year to date. I don’t think we need to focus on a Wall. dementia is up 25% this year.
October 23, 2017
California
Clearlake Oaks
13000 block of Anchor Village
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Anon Forrest
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6 years ago

I’m grateful for the Concealed Carry person at the 1st gas station. Only hit the shooter’s vehicle, but I’m thinking that this defender saved lives. My daughter lives over there, and I’m thankful for this prepared and quick-thinking citizen.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago

Redhead Blackbelt is referenced and linked in this Heavy article. The shooter claims to be an Army Veteran on his facebook. it says he randomly shot at the CCW holder after he walked into the gas station with his gun in hand to get a soda. this guy is clearly mentally ill.
http://heavy.com/news/2017/10/alan-ashmore-lake-county-california-shooting-suspect/

Good people
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Good people
6 years ago

What would we do without you Kym.. thank you!