Lava fire man shot10/24/2022 The Sacramento Bee reported that nearly 3,000 people live in Lake Shastina and as many as 8,000 others live in the area to tend to the thousands of marijuana grows. The total number of people forced to flee the area was unclear. The flames spanned nearly 21 square miles (54 square kilometers) Tuesday. The violence erupted as the Lava Fire grew rapidly and the sheriff's office issued evacuation orders for the communities of Lake Shastina, Juniper Valley and Mount Shasta Vista. Police efforts to shut them down have been countered with claims of racial discrimination. The county has banned large-scale marijuana cultivation but thousands of pot greenhouses have sprung up. The subdivision has been converted into a huge network of marijuana farms mostly run by Hmong families. The officers killed the man, who was not immediately identified. “Based upon preliminary information, it appears that there might have been a couple rounds fired from the suspect’s firearm,” LaRue said. Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue told The Sacramento Bee that the man was trying to drive into the Mount Shasta Vista subdivision on Monday and pointed a handgun at a group of officers that included a sheriff’s deputy and local police. WEED - Officers shot and killed a man who pulled a gun as they tried to keep him out of a complex of marijuana farms in an area of far Northern California where thousands of people were ordered to evacuate as a wildfire raged during a heat wave enveloping part of the U.S.
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