{"id":74610,"date":"2016-11-10T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=74610"},"modified":"2019-01-24T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:33:33","slug":"coroner-shooting-death-an-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/11\/10\/coroner-shooting-death-an-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner: Shooting death an accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The incident happened around 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, in the parking lot of the strip mall in the 1700 block of East Avenue J in Lancaster. [Photo by LUIS MEZA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>LANCASTER – The coroner’s office on Thursday said the shooting death of a security guard this week at a strip mall in Lancaster was an accident.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ulysses Escobar<\/b>, 21, of Littlerock, was found suffering from a gunshot wound to the head in a vehicle parked at the strip mall around 7:05 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, in the 1700 block of East Avenue J, said Deputy Kimberly Alexander of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. <\/span><\/p>\n

He was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ulysses Escobar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Homicide detectives learned that Escobar and another security guard were sitting in the second security guard’s car when Escobar was shot, Alexander said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The death has been ruled an accident,” said coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter. “He accidentally shot himself with his own weapon.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The handgun was recovered at the scene, Alexander said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Escobar was a security guard who worked for Lancaster-based Opsec Specialized Protection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Loved ones have established an online memorial fund has been started for Escobar, known as \u201cTank\u201d to his friends and family. To donate to this effort, visit: https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/in-memory-of-ulysses-d-escobar<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Previous related story<\/span>: Security guard found shot to death in Lancaster<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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LANCASTER – The coroner’s office on Thursday said the shooting death of a security guard this week at a strip mall in Lancaster was an accident. Ulysses Escobar, 21, of Littlerock, was found suffering from a gunshot wound to the head in a vehicle parked at the strip mall around 7:05 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":74611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,10,1493],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}