Crime & Safety

'Gunshots' Trigger Search But Yield No Gunman

Deputies descend on Serrano Creek Park.

By Martin Henderson

Orange County Sheriff deputies searched Serrano Creek Park early Monday afternoon looking for a gunman, but turned up nothing.

The situation began about 1 p.m., after they received a call from a woman who thought she saw a man in the area and thought she heard gunshots, according to Lt. Jeff Passalaqua.  

More than a half-dozen units responded. Deputies cleared the park and found a man who deputies thought might have been the person they were seeking, but he was a transient and didn't have a weapon. No guns were found in the park. 

"It was nothing," Passalaqua said. "We talked to two people, had a bunch of deputies out there, searched the whole park."


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