Man Shot By Sonoma Co. Deputy Arrested At Hospital

Petaluma police arrested a Guerneville man who was shot by a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy after he allegedly pointed a shotgun at four deputies from the balcony of his apartment Wednesday afternoon.

Jeffrey David Singleton, 46, was notified of the charges Tuesday at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital where he is recovering from a gunshot wound to the shoulder, Petaluma police Sgt. Ed Crosby said.

Petaluma police are investigating the officer involved shooting. Four sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a man brandishing a knife at the Fife Creek Commons apartment complex at 16376 Fifth St. in Guerneville around 2:40 p.m., Petaluma police Lt. Danny Fish said.

Singleton appeared on the balcony of his second-floor apartment but refused to leave and be interviewed by the deputies, Fish said. Singleton went back into his apartment and returned with a pump-action shotgun and refused the deputies’ commands to put the weapon down, Fish said.

Singleton used the pump action in the front of the shotgun that places a shell in the chamber and pointed the gun at deputies, Fish said.

Deputy Theodore Vanbebber fired four shots, one of which stuck Singleton in the shoulder, Fish said.

The shotgun was found not to be loaded. Singleton was taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital where he was arrested for six felony charges, four of them felony weapons charges, one child endangerment charge and one charge of preventing an officer by threat or force from performing his duties and a misdemeanor drug charge, Crosby said.

He will be booked in the Sonoma County jail under $750,000 bail when he is discharged from the hospital, Crosby said.

--Bay City News

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