Three Dead in Two Separate Cases as Federal Daycare Fraud Sweep Nets Twelve Arrests
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San Diego police and federal prosecutors dominated the public-safety landscape Wednesday and into Thursday with three distinct and serious actions. The first involved a North Park officer-involved shooting that began Monday when officers responded to a man smashing vehicle windows with a hammer near El Cajon Boulevard and Oregon Street. According to SDPD, the confrontation escalated when the suspect entered an adult business near 30th Street and Polk Avenue carrying flammable liquid and a torch, then set the business on fire. A deployed police K-9 was burned in the process, and three officers suffered hand burns. The man was shot by police and died at a hospital shortly before noon.
The San Diego County Sheriff's Homicide Unit is conducting the investigation — standard procedure in officer-involved fatal shootings — with the District Attorney's Office set to conduct its own independent use-of-force review upon completion. Anyone with information is asked to call 858-285-6330. The identities of the man and the officers involved had not been publicly released as of early Thursday, and the circumstances that brought the suspect to that neighborhood remain unknown.
Separately, deputies and officers responding Wednesday morning to the 6800 block of Boulder Lake Avenue in San Carlos found three members of the same family dead inside their home from apparent gunshot wounds. The victims were identified only by age and relationship: a 56-year-old man, his 54-year-old wife, and their teenage daughter. A firearm was recovered at the scene. SDPD homicide detectives are investigating who fired the shots. Next-of-kin notifications were still underway as of early Thursday, and the family had not been publicly named. The daughter attended Pershing Middle School, a fact that ensures the grief will extend into an entire school community when students arrive Thursday morning.
In a third major law-enforcement action, the Justice Department announced federal fraud charges against twelve San Diego-area daycare operators accused of submitting false attendance records for children who rarely or never appeared, in order to collect childcare subsidy payments. The alleged fraudulent payments exceed ten million dollars. One defendant, Abdulrahman Alawad, allegedly received approximately three hundred thousand dollars in 2025 alone, while surveillance reportedly recorded children at his address only once. Some defendants allegedly claimed to operate licensed facilities while physically outside the United States. These are charges, not convictions, but the scale of the alleged scheme strikes directly at programs designed to help low-income working families afford childcare.