i am here to talk about a critical incident that occurred on december 31 2021 in the city of beaumont this was a deputy and officer-involved shooting that occurred after officers located a wanted suspect dennis mchugh a 44 year old resident of glendora mchugh was wanted for ongoing investigations conducted by sheriff's deputies involving domestic violence assault with a deadly weapon kidnapping and a violation of a domestic violence restraining order which occurred over a period of several days in the unincorporated area of riverside county known as woodcrest mchugh also had a felony warrant for assault with a deadly weapon from los angeles county when we have a critical incident such as this we want to share as much information as possible as soon as the investigation allows at 107 am on december 31st our riverside county sheriff's helicopter located mchugh's vehicle in the 400 block of east 4th street in the city of beaumont several officers and deputies from the riverside county sheriff's department beaumont police department banning police department and the california highway patrol arrived on scene to assist in the arrest of mchugh a sheriff's deputy and an officer from the beaumont police department approached mchugh's vehicle while he was in the drive-through of del taco they gave multiple verbal commands to mccue to turn his vehicle off and to exit the vehicle mchugh did not comply with the commands and attempted to flee the area by ramming his truck into multiple police cars and another vehicle being driven by a private citizen mchugh continued to ram his truck into the vehicle striking a banning police officer causing him to fall down a steep embankment the vehicle then fell on top of the officer pinning him underneath at that time an officer-involved shooting occurred an officer needs help call was broadcasted to multiple law enforcement agencies the riverside county sheriff's department special enforcement bureau arrived on scene with an armored rescue vehicle which was used to safely extract the trapped and injured officer after numerous attempts to have mccue exit his vehicle members of the sheriff's special enforcement bureau approached and located mchugh deceased inside his vehicle as a warning some viewers may find this video disturbing and it is not suitable for children i'm with you i'm with you what put it pork put it apart stop the [ __ ] drop back out of the way everyone's back out of the way he's ramming cars [Music] climb over the rail climb over the rail he's backing up [Applause] hey guys grab that cover grab got officer down officer down officer down [Music] coming down hey you guys i'm with you i'm with you what put it park put it apart back out of the way everyone's back out of the way he's ramming cars [Music] climb over the rail got officer down officer down officer down hey back up [Music] coming down hey you guys i know i need you to lift cars the suspect dennis mchugh a 44 year old resident of glendora was struck by gunfire and pronounced deceased on scene the officer who was trapped under the vehicle was transported to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to make a full recovery