[UPDATE 1:30 p.m.] Officer Wounded by a Bullet Near Ferndale

Breaking NewsMedical was requested by law enforcement after an officer was shot at approximately 12:50 a.m near the 600 block of Coppini Lane near Ferndale, according to traffic on the scanner.

Ferndale officers reached the downed officer by approximately 1 a.m.

An ambulance is on the way.

UPDATE 1:14 a.m.: “The shooter is unknown at this time,” reports an officer over the scanner. The scene is on the northside of Coppini lane at the end of a narrow driveway, he also said.

UPDATE 1:24 a.m.: Medical is on their way to the hospital with one person who was wounded in the shoulder.

UPDATE 1:42 a.m.: According to earlier scanner traffic, two deputies went to the 600 block of Coppini Bluff. Shots were fired. A woman who was held hostage was detained in the back of a female deputy’s vehicle.

Below is the unedited five minutes of the initial information we heard coming over the scanner.

UPDATE 1:47 a.m.: Reports early on over the scanner indicate that the suspect was hit multiple times. Currently, officers/deputies from multiple agencies–we believe as many as 16 officers–are on the property where the shooting occurred attempting to locate the suspect.

UPDATE 2:35 a.m.: One person left the home that was the scene of the original incident and went with officers/deputies. This is not the suspect but a witness to the incident.

UPDATE 3:15 a.m.: Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is searching for the suspect of an early morning officer-involved shooting.

Just after 12 a.m. today sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a residence on the 700 block of Coppini Road in Ferndale for a welfare check. Deputies arrived on scene around 12:50 a.m. A deputy was shot shortly after arrival. The deputy was transported to a local hospital and is in stable condition.

The suspect is still outstanding and is identified as Hugo Parral-Aguirre. He is a Hispanic male, 30 years old. Parral-Aguirre is described as an adult male, 5’3″, with brown hair and brown eyes. Multiple local law enforcement agencies are assisting in the search.

Residents in the Ferndale Bottoms area are asked to stay inside while the investigation is ongoing.

We will release more information as the investigation continues. Anyone with information is asked to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251. [Note: the press release has been slightly updated at 3:21 a.m.]

UPDATE 3:45 a.m.: A person has been detained on the west side of the residence.

UPDATE 4:54 a.m.: Press release update from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

Ferndale officer-involved shooting suspect Hugo Parral-Aguirre was located just before 4:30 a.m. and taken into custody. Parral-Aguirre was transported to a local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251.

UPDATE 5 a.m.: An ambulance is again being called to the 700 block of Coppini Road for what sounds like another victim, according to the scanner. [Note: There was no additional victim.] In addition, there was a traffic collision on Grizzly Bluff Road that occurred earlier that is being reported as part of this incident.

UPDATE 5:34 a.m.: The Sheriff’s Office tweeted, “Shelter in place lifted for Ferndale Bottoms residents. Investigation is still ongoing.”

UPDATE 1:30 p.m.: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office tweeted, “Thank you everyone for the outpouring of support this morning. We are happy to share that our deputy was released from the hospital and is recovering. We would like to give a special thank you to all of the law enforcement agencies who came to our assistance early this morning on scene and to help us cover the rest of Humboldt County.”

NOTE: Remember this is breaking news and details coming over the scanner can be unclear. We’ll update as soon as we learn more.

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scooter
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scooter
6 years ago

Yikes!

Hope everyone is OK.

G-MAS
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G-MAS
6 years ago

Wild wild west. HOPE ING the officer ok

Troy Johnson
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Troy Johnson
6 years ago

Great coverage Kym

Lori
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Lori
6 years ago

Thank you Kym. I heard all the sirens and have been wondering what was going on. Very appreciative you are reporting at all hours of the day or night.

Hmmmmm!
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Hmmmmm!
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Tell him we said, “Thanks for putting up with her!”
🙂

Nanana
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Nanana
6 years ago

Right down the road from my house. Scary, stuff like this never happens in ferndale… hope everyone involved is okay!!

V man
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V man
6 years ago
Reply to  Nanana

It’s happening everywhere now

Leah lanzi
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Leah lanzi
6 years ago

I just want to thank you Kym for being such a good and accurate journalist. Much appreciated that you are basically on call at all hours to let the public know what is going on.

Ah
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Ah
6 years ago
Reply to  Leah lanzi

Yes

Sharpen your pencil
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Sharpen your pencil
6 years ago
Reply to  Leah lanzi

It takes a team. Kym has definitely got herself a dedicated team. Seems they get things in way more detail and sometimes a full day before the clowns of Loco figure out what happened!

Patty
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6 years ago

Have they said if this person is the suspect

Hopity
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Hopity
6 years ago

sounds like a border extraction

Of course
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Of course
6 years ago
Reply to  Hopity

Wow, really?!? Because they are of Spanish descent?? Keep jumping to conclusions…..you know what happens when you ASSume.
So tired of hearing people say this!
Healing thoughts to all those injured tonight.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  Of course

I’m tired of people spitting vitriol on other posters then mouthing pious drivel about those safely generalized. But then, being easiest, it will be the most common.

Yes, duh! That is exactly what he meant. Did you not assume they are of “Spanish descent” yourself? And that he wasn’t in order to fit your own scenario?

Go Read A Book
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Go Read A Book
6 years ago
Reply to  Guest

As in the Spanish who first set foot in California in 1542? Or are we talking about Latinos which originally came from Latin American countries and have been in California for centuries? There’s a huge difference. The word of today kids is: ‘ethnocentric’
go look it up.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  Go Read A Book

Don’t have any cows, do you.

Bob
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Bob
6 years ago
Reply to  Go Read A Book

Unreal wake up to reality bro you might be the next victim or a family member. I bet your a supporter of the pos that killed Kate Steinley.

Liberal hypocrisy
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Liberal hypocrisy
6 years ago
Reply to  Of course

Well now this POS is just a human sprinkler no matter what his effing Heritage is! Good shooting on the LEOs part I hope she recovers completely from her wounds and the emotional Trauma from having to shoot someone

Bob
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Bob
6 years ago
Reply to  Of course

Wow really do you live in a bubble or are you so left you lost contact with reality years ago!

TheMoreYouKnow...
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TheMoreYouKnow...
6 years ago
Reply to  Hopity

Because that’s not stupid and racist.

Save that for LoCo’s page, huh?

Cnote
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Cnote
6 years ago

Here here

Life is Good
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Life is Good
6 years ago
Reply to  Hopity

“You may say I’m a Dreamer…”

Cranky Old Lady
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Cranky Old Lady
6 years ago

Thanks for the great report Kym and I thank Jim on the LoCo for reminding me to check with your blog.

Sharpen your pencil
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Sharpen your pencil
6 years ago

You’re depending on Jim to remember thing’s? Wow, that explains a lot!

Willie Caos-Mayhem
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6 years ago

Great job at getting the news out there.

J Dubbs
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J Dubbs
6 years ago

Please shelter-in-place between your cows, you will be safe and warm

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  J Dubbs

Don’t have any cows, do you.

J Dubbs
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J Dubbs
6 years ago

I hope it wasn’t one of the two FPD cops who survived the Las Vegas concert massacre, now that would be weird and unsettling.

Poppins
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Poppins
6 years ago

Hope the officer quickly heals up and the woman who was rescued from the house gets help in dealing with the domestic situation she was in. I don’t care what the man’s ethnicity is. He is now “alleged” to have committed a few felonies and will go through his medical recovery before the justice system turns its all too slow wheels.

If he passes then the officer will face a long road to vindication in deciding to respond to the man’s threat.

May all the investigators have wisdom and clarity of mind as they process the scene.

John Ripper
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John Ripper
6 years ago

No racially or ethnically mixed society has ever worked. What is going on in this country doesn`t work. It stumbles along at great expense of blood and treasure. Pretending this sort of mixing and that the human race is one big happy family and all that is needed are a few more diversity monitors is dangerously unfair to everyone involved. The sooner this is recognized, the better for everyone.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  John Ripper

Name one “racially pure” society. Get a clue. Your boy Hitler was half Jewish. Who invaded Rome? Oh yeah, ze Germans. Keep up the good work maybe someday your silly fantasies will come true.

Another Guest
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Another Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Welfare states that are not homogeneous don’t work well because of the pushing and shoving at the government trough. The whining about not having enough , discrimination and the attempt to use government as a referee and judge only creates hostility as the government orders winners to move over for losers, all while snatching what it can for itself. The trough feeders start attacking each other rather than just shoving to get their share.

On the other hand capitalist states thrives amidst the pushing and shoving which acts as incentive to compete. Those who don’t compete well at one trough go off to try and find their own as the trough belongs to the finder. Lots of troughs, lots of opportunity. But you need to be able to defend your right to your trough yourself. No self respecting trough victor dares to attract the attention the biggest, meanest trough feeder, the government.

scooter
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scooter
6 years ago
Reply to  Another Guest

It’s a sick world you live in, dude.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  scooter

The real world is not all unicorns and rainbows. Most of the time the lion ears the lamb.

scooter
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scooter
6 years ago
Reply to  John Ripper

LOL Racially pure society? What a load of racist dung.

There is only one race – the human race.

It appears to me like those wishing for a “racially pure,” society are part of the problem rather than inevitable solution.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago

Any new information?

Krazy
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Krazy
6 years ago

Ok woman held hostage, domestic violence? Wasn’t the gunman at the Texas church put in military jail for a year for that? Oh that’s right he cracked his 3year olds skull too.

Its way past time for domestic violence to be taken very very seriously not just for the family involved sake but for everyone else too. Its a precursor, like how its said kids who harm animals have high chance of killing people.
Abusers who hold power through abuse in their home often carry that same thing out into the world.

Bozo
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Bozo
6 years ago

Is it this guy ? (I dunno)
Name turned up in a Google search.
He was arrested in Mexico on domestic violence
charges… (i.e. child rape) back in 2011 ?

Google translation of the Mexican newspaper account.

The miller Hugo Parral Aguirre was arrested by elements of the State Investigation Agency commissioned in Pinotepa Nacional when accused of sexually assaulting a minor who came to grind his nixtamal.

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With the arrest of Hugo Parral Aguirre, the arrest warrant issued by the joint judge of Pinotepa Nacional as the alleged perpetrator of the crime of rape committed against a minor was carried out.
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G-MAS
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G-MAS
6 years ago

Is their any information on the officer shot? Sure hoping their ok.😄

G-MAS
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G-MAS
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Oh,thank you.its nice to know he’s ok.

Double speak outside of cheek
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Double speak outside of cheek
6 years ago
Reply to  G-MAS

She. Female officer

G-MAS
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G-MAS
6 years ago

Well now we know that.didnt before.

laya goodwyn
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laya goodwyn
6 years ago

how is the guy who is assumed guilty party / shooter?

River Rat
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River Rat
6 years ago

Regardless of race, if he shot at a police officer, he would shoot at anyone. He’s a P.O.S.

amimissingsomething
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amimissingsomething
6 years ago

Is he an illegal alien? If he lives we will pay for 50 years of incarceration @ 50K per year. People wonder why we don’t want illegals in our Country….well here is a prime example. If he has a family and they are here illegally then they should be sent south of the border. No need to pay for their welfare.

shak
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shak
6 years ago

Being in liberal courts Calif, he’ll probably make $500 bail.

ralph
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ralph
6 years ago

Politically correct…

[UPDATE 1:30 p.m.] Officer Wounded by a Bullet Near Ferndale

Because he was shot?

69 roadrunner
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6 years ago

Another illegal Mexican reeking havoc bringing dope guns into our County.somebody please build the wall .he is probably in cahoots with the gang members busted in arcata . Not being racist just stating facts. I wish ICE would come in and do a full-scale sweep,and send them back to Mexico where they belong. Mexican Nationals are the root of all evil and it’s killing Humboldt County and everyone in it that uses dope meth and heroin.maybe honsell we’ll do something about curtailing this meneace to society .Now that one of his own was shot buy a illegal Mexican.grow a pair honsel.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago

moral of the story: don’t trade your girlfriend for heroin ever.

69 roadrunner
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6 years ago

This is another statistic for the prison system how many are illegal aliens in our
Ca, prison system today? So he gets 20 years for shooting a police officer .which means the tax payer have to house and feed a illegal alien wtf. If a person has no legal right being here send them packing back to there country .save us money ,and over crowding the prison systems THe Surenos ,and the Nortenos I’m sure are 95% illegals just saying .This fact alone would save california taxpayers a fortune .Depending on the crime in this instance do the time then deport .