Marine Wounded by San Diego Police
A San Diego police officer shot a 19-year-old Marine in the leg Friday night after he reportedly pointed a gun at officers.
Officers Stephen Williamson, 30, and Jack Provencher, 28, were walking near Fourth Avenue and F Street when a man ran toward them and said someone was shooting at him, a police spokesman said.
The officers saw a second man duck behind a parked car, the spokesman said. When officers ordered him to surrender, the man reportedly pointed a gun at them.
Williamson fired two shots from his revolver. One hit the windshield of a parked car and the other struck Pfc. Kenneth L. Belgarde in the leg.
Police said they recovered a handgun at the scene.
Belgarde, who was wounded in the right calf, was arrested on suspicion of assualt with a deadly weapon and taken to UC San Diego Medical Center, where he was reported in fair condition.
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