A Los Angeles County Fire Department captain who survived his injuries after a firefighter engineer shot him and a second colleague at the Agua Dulce station in 2021 has settled the part of his case against the gunman’s estate.
The lawsuit was brought in Los Angeles Superior Court in January 2022 by Capt. Arnoldo Sandoval, who says he suffered serious injury, including paralysis. On Friday, his attorneys filed court papers with Judge Anne Hwang notifying her of the accord with the estate of Jonathan Patrick Tatone.
No terms were revealed.
Sandoval also sued the county and settled that part of the suit last September for $2.6 million.
Tatone wounded Sandoval and fatally shot 44-year-old Firefighter Engineer Tory Carlon before killing himself. For years prior to the shooting, the 45-year-old Tatone exhibited “threatening, bullying, combative, angry and unstable behavior, all of which was known to his supervisors,” the suit alleges.
Sandoval and Carlon were working at Station No. 81 on Sierra Highway on June 1, 2021, when the off-duty killer arrived, an argument ensued and Tatone shot both men, authorities said.
Tatone left for his Acton residence, which he set afire before shooting himself to death.