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RED BLUFF, Calif. - Authorities are continuing to look into an officer-involved shooting that took place Friday night on I-5, north of Red Bluff.

On March 24, around 11:45 p.m., a Red Bluff area California Highway PatrolOfficer conducted a traffic enforcement stop on a white Hyundai Sedan on northbound Interstate 5, north of Hooker Creek Road in Tehama County. The CHP Officer contacted the two adult male occupants of the Hyundai and conversed about the enforcement stop.

The officer, whose name is being withheld under the Peace Officer's Procedural Bill of Rights, continued to ask the two occupants questions when one of them shot him in the right thigh. Officials say that the CHP officer then drew his sidearm and fired at the shooter, hitting both the driver and the passenger of the vehicle.

One of the occupants was pronounced dead at the scene by medical staff, while the other was taken to a local hospital for his major injuries.

Backup officers from the California Highway Patrol, Red Bluff Police Department, and Tehama County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene and the injured CHP Officer was rescued from the scene and transported to an area hospital for his major injuries.

"We're still early on, the Department of Justice is here doing a crime scene investigation for us, the California Highway Patrol has theirMAITteam doing a diagram, our office, the Sheriff's Office is handling criminal aspect of the investigation, the California Highway Patrol is handling their internal investigation" said Lt. David Greer of the Tehama County Sheriff's Office.

Northbound Interstate 5 was closed from Hooker Creek Road to Sunset Hills Road for approximately 12 hours while investigators and Criminalists thoroughly investigated the scene of the shooting.

The identity of the two occupants of the white Hyundai is pending further investigation and the notification of next of kin to the deceased occupant.

The CHP Officer has been released from the area hospital and is recovering from his injuries.

Northbound traffic was slow moving just north of Red Bluff where a detour had been set up for most of Saturday. Drivers had to exit at Hooker Creek Road then drive along Auction Yard Road and then they could get back onto northbound I-5 at Sunset Hills Boulevard.

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