Caleb Lunetta is a staff writer at The San Diego Union-Tribune, with his primary focus on breaking news and public safety issues. Before coming to San Diego, he worked as a breaking news and education reporter at The Signal newspaper in Santa Clarita. He is a graduate of California State University-Northridge.
SWAT deputies Luke Vories, Kevin McCauley and Parker Robbins fatally shot 55-year-old Michael Redding during an exchange of gunfire outside a Santee home on Sunday.
A candlelight vigil to honor the life and memory of Mattviel “Chubby” Rodriguez, an 8-year-old Ramona boy who loved baseball, was held Friday night at the Ramona Pony baseball fields. ...
Three suspects were fatally shot by police, another two were injured and two more were not hit by the officers' shots. Two of the shootings are the subject of still-pending...
Officer Dominic Bloemendaal shot William John Hanley, 53, after the armed man allegedly threatened library patrons and police in Pacific Beach on May 8