Man Shot By Off-Duty Officer Identified

We now know the name of the man who was shot dead by an off-duty CHP Officer early Sunday morning. The Shasta County Coroner’s Office has identified him as 23-year-old Christopher Delano Rosa. Redding Police Officers were dispatched at 3:08AM Sunday morning to a house on Country Oak Drive off Collyer Drive in North Redding, where the residents said someone was prowling and trying to get into the house through the back door. The area was searched but nobody was found. While officers were there a 9-1-1 call was made from another house on the same street a couple of blocks away. A man had reportedly been trying to kick in the front door. The homeowner, a CHP Officer, shot him multiple times. Christopher Rosa died after arriving at a hospital. The name of the CHP Officer has not been made public.

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