This video is intended to provide you with information about a critical incident involving Sanino County Sheriff's Department personnel. In this critical incident video, we will provide you with the synopsis of the incident and include any relevant video and audio. We may have redacted some names and blurred civilian faces to protect their privacy and integrity of the investigation. Keep in mind, bodywn cameras, cell phone footage, and other types of video and audio systems that may have recorded the incident do not capture everything a deputy sees or hears, and they may capture things that the deputy never sees or hears. The images and footage you are about to see may be disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised, especially for children and sensitive viewers. On Wednesday, September 20th, 2023, at approximately 7:02 p.m., deputies assigned to the Hisperia Sheriff's Station responded to a call for service at a residential home in the 13,000 block of Sunland Street in the city of Hisperia to investigate a reported home invasion robbery in progress. The reporting party explained to sheriff's 911 dispatch that he was hiding inside his residence and two men wearing masks armed with guns were inside the home. The following is the dispatch audio of the 911 call made by the reporting party. 911, what is the address of your emergency? Can you please locate Oh, can you can you please send the cop here, please? What is the address? It's um just trace can you trace the call? These these addresses aren't always correct. So we need you to get So I'm showing two different ones. So can you give me actually three. Can you give me the address? What? Please send the cops. There's there's there's people here. They're going to hurt me. Please send the cops. I don't I Okay, but I need the address. It's these people. They're going to they're going to hurt me. Um, it's on Sun Street. What people? They're in the house. Hey, wait. Wait. Hey, wait. Do you have an address? Hello. It's Is that on Sunland Street? Yeah, ma'am. I'm here. They're robbing the house. They're robbing the house? Yes. Are you in the house? Yes. How many people are in the house? I think it's like two of them. Black, white, Hispanic, Asian? I don't know. They're weighing. Do you see any weapons? Yeah. Yes. What kind of weapons? One of them finished like a gun. Please, please send the cops. They're on their way, but I have to ask these questions. Where are you? I'm in the room. In a bedroom? Yeah. Okay. Is that in the front of the house, the back of the house? Are you in the front of the house or the back of the house? Hello? sir. Hello. The following is a summary of information investigators gathered from witness statements, dispatch 911 audio, bodywn cameras, and computer aided dispatch entries. At approximately 7:06 p.m., the first deputy arrived on scene and approached the residence. As the deputy walked toward the residence, the suspect, later identified as Abel Valencia, exited the front door wearing a mask and armed with the handgun. Valencia pointed the gun at the deputy and a lethal force encounter occurred. While continuing to hold a handgun, Valencia ran toward the deputy and chased the deputy around a vehicle parked in front of the location. The deputy fired several more rounds while maintaining cover behind the vehicle and eventually Valencia fell to the ground. The following is bodywn camera footage from the first responding deputy. Well, that's Hey, come out with your hands up. Come out with your hands up. Back to 24. I got subjects with mask in the house while peeking out the door. I'll be waiting for units. Come out with your hands up. He has the gun. He has the gun. He has the gun. Shots fired. Shots fired. Sh. Fire. I got shots fired. It's a me 9999. Suspect's down. I got the suspect down. Show me your hands. Show me your hands. Show me your hands. As the deputy moved to the prone position behind the parked vehicle, his bodywn camera impacted the ground and was deactivated. At approximately 7:10 p.m., a second deputy arrived on scene during the altercation and gave commands for Valencia to drop the gun. Valencia did not comply and a lethal force encounter occurred. The following is bodywn camera footage from the second responding deputy. Suspect down. Suspect is down. [Music] I'm moving. 1497. 1497 97. Drop the gun. [Music] Show me your hands, Hawkins. Stand behind that car. Show me your hands. Drop the gun. Drop the gun. Hey, someone get the shield out of my trunk. Drop the gun. Additional units in route. After the lethal force encounter, deputies approached Valencia. He displayed obvious signs of death and was pronounced deceased at the scene. Additional deputies arrived at the residence and established a perimeter in an attempt to contact and keep the second suspect described by the reporting party from fleeing. It was unknown if the additional suspect had already fled or was still inside the residence. A search warrant was authored and members of the sheriff's special enforcement division SED responded to search the residence. During the search of the residence, no additional suspect was located and no one else was inside the residence. While investigating the crime scene, investigators located the handgun that Valencia pointed at the deputies still in his right hand with his finger on the trigger. The handgun was determined to be a BB gun and a replica of a Sig Sauer P365 9mm handgun. During the investigation, detectives learned the 911 call was placed from a phone number associated with Abel Valencia in what investigators now believe was an attempt by Valencia to lure deputies to the residence by falsely reporting a robbery. The initial responding deputy suffered lacerations to his arm, was treated at Desert Valley Hospital, and later released. When San Frernardino County Sheriff's Department personnel are involved in a critical incident, multiple investigations are immediately initiated. The Sheriff's Department Specialized Investigations Division and the Sanernardino County District Attorney's Office generally conduct a joint investigation. The district attorney's office will make the determination if the actions of the involved sheriff's department personnel were within the law. The specialized investigation division conducts a criminal investigation related to any suspects involved in the critical incident. The department also conducts an internal review of the critical incident to determine if the actions of the involved personnel were within policy and whether additional policies, training, or equipment is needed to assist personnel when confronted with future critical incidents.