A Sudden Call Turns Deadly (Image Credits: Unsplash)
Corona – Under the dim streetlights of a late-night intersection, tension erupted into tragedy when police confronted a man wielding a makeshift weapon.
A Sudden Call Turns Deadly
Imagine responding to reports of someone damaging cars with a tire iron in the dead of night. That’s exactly what Corona officers faced around 12:30 a.m. on November 18. The suspect, later identified as 31-year-old Kiavik Miranda, had been swinging the tool at vehicles near McKinley Street and Promenade Avenue, right outside an Applebee’s.
Officers arrived quickly, but things escalated fast. Miranda allegedly turned the tire iron toward them, prompting a response that ended with gunfire. He was pronounced dead at the scene, leaving investigators to piece together the chaos…