Overview
- Deputies responded Saturday to a shooting on the 300 block of Cloverdale Heights Way, where a victim with a gunshot wound was pronounced dead.
- The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office identified 56-year-old Lawrence Cassidy of Cloverdale as the suspect and said he drove away in a white Ford SUV later located in Healdsburg.
- Officials said Cassidy was then driven from Healdsburg to a residence on the 1500 block of Brush Creek Road in Santa Rosa.
- Around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, SWAT, hostage negotiators and the bomb squad surrounded the home, removed two people safely, and reported shots fired from inside that may have struck an armored vehicle.
- After chemical agents and repeated unanswered attempts to communicate, a drone and bomb-disposal robot were used before SWAT entered and found a man dead inside, and Petaluma police have taken over the investigation.