Sheriff deputies involved in shooting

Man hit victim with truck, fled the scene
Sonoma County Sheriff’s deputies shot a man in the arm Tuesday, Oct. 31 after he attempted to run a victim over in a stolen truck on the 300 block of Bailhache Avenue in Healdsburg.
According to the sheriff’s department, the victim, identified as a 48-year-old man from Guerneville, reported to deputies that the property owner on Bailhache Avenue called him to address a situation where another individual was causing problems and refusing to leave. That individual was 47-year-old Shawn Hart, who is described as homeless and living in a truck near the property. When the victim tried to calm Hart down, Hart intentionally drove his truck toward the victim and struck him with his front bumper. The victim managed to escape injury and call the sheriff’s department.
This was not Hart’s first run in with law enforcement. Hart fled the scene driving a white GMC pickup with a motorcycle in the back. The truck was reported stolen on Oct. 13, 2017 by the Santa Rosa California Highway Patrol. At that time, the owner of the stolen truck, Hart’s mother, listed Hart as a suspect and noted to CHP that there was a .38 caliber revolver in the truck. Hart had a prior arrest for being a felon in possession of a gun. In addition, sheriff’s deputies were told over broadcast that the Healdsburg Police Department had recently encountered Hart in a situation where he vowed to never be taken alive. Lastly, Hart has a $50,000 warrant for violating a restraining order.
Deputies searched the area for Hart and found him driving near the Vineyard Creek apartment complex off of Airport Boulevard. Despite two attempts to stop Hart using their emergency lights, Hart refused to stop. Continuing to flee, Hart turned onto Whispering Creek Drive, a dead end street, through to the Stonegate Mobile Home Park. When Hart reached the end of the mobile home park, he drove toward a vacant field cluttered with debris. Hart hit the debris and could not drive forward anymore. Putting the truck in reverse, Hart hit a patrol car twice. The deputy then drove the front of the patrol car into the driver’s door of Hart’s truck.
In an effort to escape, Hart moved toward the passenger side of the truck. Believing that Hart was reaching for the handgun reportedly in the vehicle, the deputy fired three rounds from his handgun through the front windshield of the car toward Hart, who returned to the driver seat of the truck with the window down. At the same time, a second deputy was approaching the rear passenger side of the patrol car. Hearing gunshots and believing the suspect was shooting at the deputy, he also fired one round into the rear driver side window of the truck.
Hart was struck two times in the left arm. A bullet also grazed the tip of his nose. The deputies ordered Hart to put his hands up, but he didn’t comply. After several requests, he eventually complied. Additional responding deputies removed Hart from the truck through the passenger side door. They immediately applied first aid to the gunshot wounds and called for medical help. An ambulance arrived and transported Hart to a local hospital where he remains in stable condition. Deputies later found Hart had two 12-inch kitchen knives and a 10-inch fold lock tactical knife. The .38 caliber handgun was not located.
Hart will be booked into the Sonoma County jail on two counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon, the stolen vehicle charge and his arrest warrant after he is released from the hospital.
The deputies names are not being released at this time.