A man who pleaded guilty to waving a gun at officers and civilians to resist arrest appeared in court Monday for his sentencing. 

The incident happened in August 2014 when students on a school field trip witnessed the officer-involved shooting with Lance Tamyo in the 2800 block of N. Mission Bay Drive near De Anza Cove around noon.

Tamyo was sentenced to four years in prison, San Diego County District Attorney spokeswoman Tanya Sierra said. He will be on a probation grant for three years and will spend 180 days in custody.

He is ordered to continue medical and psychiatric treatment, Sierra said. 

In August, Tamyo called 911 and said he was sitting in his car and was going to shoot himself, San Diego Police said.

Officers surrounded the car and attempted to talk the man out. Police said Tamyo was initially cooperative and got out of his vehicle to turn himself in.

Quickly thereafter, however, his plans changed.

Tamyo got back inside his vehicle and pulled out a handgun.

Witnesses said the man got out of a car, waved the gun around, pointed it at his head, pointed it at police officers and even pointed it up at the police helicopter. Officials said Tamyo also pointed the weapon at civilians in the park.

The same witnesses said the man was shot once by police officers in what appeared to be his chest. He went down to the ground and then got up again and walked over to a shaded area where police handcuffed him.

There were nearly a dozen police patrol cars on the scene just west of Interstate 5 along North Mission Bay Drive.

The school students were on a field trip to Mission Bay and witnessed the incident. No one was injured except for Tamyo.

The San Diego Police Department confirmed the officer who fired the shot was Officer Michael Weaver, an SDPD Northern Division officer with nine years on the force.

Tamyo was struck in the stomach area and transported to Scripps La Jolla via ambulance. 

A North County hospital that is losing more than $20 million a year may soon close its doors after six decades of treating patients.

The board of directors for Palomar Health’s Downtown Escondido campus is expected to vote Wednesday on shutting down the facility, which has been on E. Valley Parkway since 1950. However, the public will get a chance to weigh in Monday at 6 p.m. at the California Center for the Arts.

More than 8,000 patients were treated at the hospital last year, but it wasn’t enough to stop the operation from hemorrhaging money.

If closed, patients would be diverted to either the Pomerado Hospital in Poway – about 12 miles away -- or to the new Palomar Health Center on Citricado Parkway – roughly 11 miles away.

The downtown Escondido location was built to increase the availability of hospital beds in the North County, among other reasons. However, a Palomar Health spokesperson told NBC 7 that none of their hospitals are operating at capacity right now, so closing the downtown campus would help increase efficiency.

The move is expected to have an impact on businesses surrounding it.

“My business is insurance services, so I was planning on being close to the hospital,” said Ricardo Vazquez. “But thanks to this, if they close the hospital, I’m probably going to have to close before opening.

The Palomar spokesperson said keeping the facility open would cost more than $270 million over the next five years.

“Well, I am not happy about that because the building is going to be empty, but at the same time, I can understand where the hospital is coming from,” said neighbor Mary Kluff.
 

One of the San Diego Zoo’s oldest residents passed away Friday.

The Galapagos tortoise Speed, estimated to be more than 150 years old, was euthanized by zoo staff Friday. Speed had been under veterinary care for geriatric conditions for a period of time.

In recent years, veterinarians had worked to treat Speed with medications, hydrotherapy, acupuncture and physical therapy treatments during his later years.

The tortoise came to the zoo in the 1930s as a part of an effort to help preserve tortoise species from the Volcan Cerro Azul Island of the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador.

Speed helped create more than 90 tortoise as a part of a breeding group.

Galapagos tortoises were once hunted for food and placed until protection in 1959. They are a critically endangered species.

The tortoise lived in the Children’s Zoo for a period of time before being moved to the Galapagos tortoise habitat.
 

For the first time, representatives from two football teams exploring a move to the Los Angeles area will meet with local fans.

The San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders, both involved in a bid to build an NFL stadium in Carson, are sending representatives to a town hall meeting in the city Monday night.

The proposed $1.7 billion stadium would house both teams -- if their current home cities can't woo them back by upgrading their current facilities or offering new state-of-the-art stadiums.

"We want to keep our residents informed every step of the way," Carson's Mayor Albert Robles said in a statement.

Carson residents have been excited about the possibility of having not one but two NFL teams playing in their backyard, but fans in San Diego and Oakland are still hoping to keep their teams, both of which have played in Los Angeles before.

The 72,000-seat stadium is one of two in the LA area being seriously considered for an NFL stadium, along with a $2 billion stadium and entertainment-residence complex in Inglewood that's backed by St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke.

Both plans have cleared local bureaucratic hurdles.

Famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, Colombian pop superstar Juanes and the Philadelphia Orchestra will perform for Pope Francis during his visit to Philadelphia in September.

The singers and orchestra are the first three music acts to be announced for the Festival of Families taking place on Saturday, September 26 along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Center City. The festival is the capstone event to the World Meeting of Families conference happening in the city Sept. 22 to 25.

"To have Andrea Bocelli, one of the world’s great vocalists, and Juanes, one of the most popular performers in all of Latin America, come to Philadelphia for the Festival of Families is an extraordinary gift," Donna Crilley Farrell, executive director for the World Meeting of Families, Philadelphia 2015, said in a release.

The announcement came as conference organizers and city leaders met in Rome to discuss logistics and plans for the events and visit by the pontiff. Organizers plan to add other high-profile acts over the next few weeks.

The Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin will also perform the liturgical music during Pope Francis' public mass along the parkway that Sunday. They will be accompanied by a 500 person choir.

The University of California, San Diego Extension announced a partnership with both the Sycuan Education Department and the Viejas Tribal Education Center to provide college preparatory programs as part of a larger effort to boost college enrollment among young adults in underrepresented communities.

The partnership is designed to enhance the programs that the tribal education centers already offer by providing middle and high school students the opportunity to explore the UC San Diego campus as well as attend UCSD Extension’s innovative college-prep summer courses in Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii and Washington D.C.

Councilman Gabriel T. TeSam of the Viejas Tribe said both tribes are working on a strategic plan to help Native American students enter college and graduate school, and this partnership will go a long way to further its goals of increasing college enrollment in his tribe.

Ed Abeyta, assistant dean for community engagement and director of pre-collegiate and career preparations for UC San Diego Extension, said working with the Sycuan and Viejas tribes is part of UC San Diego’s larger goal to reach out to communities throughout the region to ensure the campus is a true reflection of what makes San Diego unique
 

A group of four suspected teenage vandals were arrested in Santee last week for causing more than $25,000 worth of damage to a park and high school, including uprooting trees and shattering windows.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said four young men – three minors and 18-year-old Daniel Johnson, of Santee – allegedly vandalized West Hills Park and West Hills High School on Mast Boulevard on Friday.

At around 4:20 a.m., a citizen called deputies to report the suspects kicking the door of a concession stand at the park. When deputies arrived, they discovered substantial vandalism at the park, including broken signs, wires pulled out of electrical boxes and the door to the concession stand that had been forced open.

There was also paint spread around the park, officials said.

Further investigation led deputies to discover vandalism at West Hills High School, which is right next to the community park. There, several windows had been shattered and lights had been broken. Officials said vandals had also uprooted trees on campus, burned trash in a can and had thrown a brick through the windshield of a school vehicle.

According to the sheriff’s department, the damage at both locations was estimated at more than $25,000.

Deputies detained four teenagers near the park who matched the description of the suspects seen trying to break into the concession stand. The four young men had paint on their clothing, deputies said, which matched the paint used to vandalize the park.

The suspects were taken into custody and charged with vandalism, burglary and arson.

Johnson was booked into San Diego Central Jail and is expected to appear in court Tuesday.

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information on this case should contact the sheriff’s department at (858) 565-5200 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
 

A potentially deadly Portuguese man-of-war washed up on the Jersey Shore over the weekend, and officials are warning beachgoers to keep their distance if they encounter any others.

The vibrant purple and blue sea creature was found Sunday morning at Harvey Cedars Beach, according to the beach patrol officers’ Facebook page.

Officials say the northeast wind brings warm water from the Gulf Stream to shore, and along with it, seaweed and sea animals.

Portuguese man-of-wars have tentacles that grow from 10 to 30 feet long and marine biologists say their potentially deadly sting is far worse than what you’d get from jellyfish normally found at the Jersey Shore.

Stings from man-of-wars can cause abdominal pain, changes in pulse, chest pain, collapse, headache, muscle pain and spasms, numbness and weakness, pain in the arms or legs, a raised red spot on the skin, runny nose and watery eyes, difficulty swallowing and sweating.

“Their stings are among the most painful and if somebody is allergic to bee stings or something like that, you can go into shock,” Dr. Paul Bologna, associate professor of biology at Montclair State University said.

Beachgoer Emily Merchant says she was stung by a Portuguese man-of-war as a child in Hawaii. The creatures are commonly found in tropical waters but the Gulf Stream and certain wind patterns can send them our way.

“It was horrible. I thought I got electrocuted,” Merchant said.

Experts say this likely wasn’t an isolated incident and that it’s highly probable that more of these jellyfish will show up on local beaches in the next week or so.

“You never want to turn your back on the ocean. It’s always constantly changing,” Harvey Cedars Beach Patrol Captain Randy Townsend said.

Cables lining Interstate 8 stopped a woman from flying onto the freeway after the vehicle she was driving rolled off the road and down an embankment, according to California Highway Patrol.

Just before 9 p.m., the car was driving eastbound on Parkway Drive when it rammed through a fence, down an embankment and onto the I-8 shoulder.

However, cables on the side of the freeway wrapped around the car's grill and kept it from going into the lanes of traffic. CHP says the driver suffered minor injuries, but it could have been worse had she gone onto the freeway.

The westbound I-8/Fletcher Parkway onramp has been closed for a time.

The vehicle's owner, who was not the driver, and her father arrived at the scene shortly after. The owner told NBC 7 that she had fallen asleep while at a friend's house in Spring Valley. She said a friend stole her car while she was sleeping, and another friend stole it back to return it to the owner.

However, the latter friend did not have a license, and she drove the car off the embankment.

Her father, Ryan Walls, said this is what happens when friends take off in your car.

"I'm happy that the cable stopped the car," Walls said. "You have to have trustworthy friends. That's all I have to say."

La Mesa police have not said yet whether this is a stolen car investigation.

A man with dozens of prior arrests wounded a 31-year-old tourist with a machete in an apparently unprovoked attack in a midtown Manhattan park Tuesday, authorities and law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation tell NBC 4 New York.

The man sneaked up behind the woman as she was leaving the park around 11:30 a.m. and hit her in the arm with the machete, leaving two deep wounds, law enforcement sources said. Police witnessed the altercation and took the man into custody; they recovered the machete, the sources said.

The woman was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center and is expected to survive, authorities said. She was conscious and alert when she was taken to the hospital.

Police arrested 43-year-old Frederick Young on an assault charge. Young has at least 30 prior arrests, including several for drugs, and was arrested in 2010 for menacing with a machete, law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation tell NBC 4 New York.

Amateur video taken at the scene shows several officers restraining a man on steps at a corner of the park. Another man can be seen holding what appears to be a machete, while several bystanders aid an injured woman with a tourniquet fashioned from a belt.

Some of the hundreds of people in the park at the time of the slashing described a hectic scene.

Kyle Newberry described the aftermath of the slashing as "pandemonium."

"Next thing I knew guy on the ground guns drawn all around him got him pinned to the ground his machete is on the left side," he said.

The park quickly returned to its normal bustle.

It's not the first time the popular midtown park has been the site of violence.

A November 2013 shooting at its ice rink injured two people, including a 14-year-old, and sent skaters stampeding to safety.

Police said the gunman was a 16-year-old who had tried to rob one of the victims of his coat. The suspect, now 18, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder. 

A California man sought in the slayings of his infant son and the child's mother surrendered Tuesday after authorities found him in an Orange County park pond following a brief pursuit.

The mother and her infant child died Monday after being assaulted inside an apartment in the 2600 block of West Ball Road in Anaheim Monday at around noon. Investigators found Kwane Carpenter's car in the parking lot of the Fountain Valley Hospital at around 3:30 a.m. after a tip-off from a security guard, and following an exchange of shots he fled in his vehicle, a spokesman for the Anaheim Police Department said.

"He woke up, started the vehicle immediately and drove off through the parking lot," said Sgt. Tony Luce, of the Fountain Valley Police Department. "He struck several vehicles in the parking lot and, at one point, drove the vehicle in the direction of one of our officers."

He then drove into a park at the corner of Edinger Avenue and Euclid Street and jumped into a pond in an apparent attempt to escape, police said. Carpenter was later tracked down by K-9 officers and taken into custody soon after he surrendered in neck-deep water, police said.

"The dog then jumped into the lake and grabbed ahold," said Luce.

Carpenter was identified by police as a person of interest in the killings. Carpenter remained hospitalized early Tuesday afternoon.

Investigators said the mother of his child, who has not been identified but was in her 20s, was dead when they arrived at the apartment Monday. Her 6-month-old son was taken to the hospital, where he died.

A coroner's report is pending.

Kyle Elsbernd said he tried to comfort a woman who arrived at the apartments and told him she lived in the unit and was the victim’s sister.

"When they brought the baby out, she recognized the baby and she freaked out," Elsbernd said. "It was heart-wrenching," Elsbernd said.

Shortly after, witnesses say the baby’s grandmother arrived at the scene.

Police previously said they were looking for 24-year-old Carpenter as a person of interest in the deaths.

"We are looking for a person of interest that we think could shed some light on this incident," said Lt. Eric Trapp of the Anaheim Police Department.

Annette Arreola contributed to this report.

A South Florida man accused of shooting his neighbor during a dispute over dog poop was ordered held without bond Tuesday.

Omar Rodriguez, 66, of Miami-Dade, appeared before a judge Tuesday as he faces a first-degree attempted murder charge in the shooting of Jose Rey.

A clerical error by the lead detective in the case had Rodriguez initially charged with second-degree attempted murder. But in bond court the state attorney quickly brought up the error, emphasizing Rodriguez should be held without bond on a first degree charge.

"It shows premeditation. He consistently had opportunities to stop and reflect on his actions when he went to his car, got his gun," the prosecutor said.

According to police, Rey was walking his dog home Saturday night in his Kendall neighborhood when Rodriguez said Rey's dog was attempting to defecate in Rodriguez's son's yard.

Neighbors told police that the two men began arguing loudly and Rodriguez told police that Rey threatened to return and fight him. Rodriguez told police that after he spotted what appeared to be a shiny object in Rey's hand, he went to his car and retrieved a gun from his glove compartment.

Rodriguez opened fire, shooting Rey. Rey, a father of two, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Rey's family released a statement Tuesday to give an update on his status.

"On behalf of the Entire Rey Family we would like to thank you for your continued support and prayers at this time. Since this heinous shooting Pepe has under gone multiple surgeries and we are waiting a final one at any time between today and tomorrow," the statement said. "Every minute that goes by is a blessing and one step forward to his road to recovery."

At court Tuesday, Rodriguez's attorney, Alan Ross, said it was a justifiable use of force.

"Despite how this case has been characterized and portrayed, over the weekend in the press, on TV, again here in court this morning, we're confident that once all the facts are known and once all the circumstances surface that a different picture is going to be painted and that the community will then understand that there was a justifiable use of force and a well founded fear that supported the conduct of the defendant in this case," Ross said.

Ross argued that the charge should be second-degree attempted murder, which would allow Rodriguez to be released on bond. He also claimed the arrest affidavit showed Rey was the aggressor.

"It indicates that Mr. Rey was looking for a fight. 'I'm going to take my dog home, I'm going to come back, I'm going to do all of those things,'" Ross said.

Rey's daughter, Becky Rey, said that would be out of character.

"He's known and loved by a lot of people," she said. "You can't hear one bad thing about my dad."

Rey's daughter has spent countless hours at the hospital as her father fights for his life.

"We were concerned for our safety, so it's good news for us. We just want to focus now, we need to stay focused now on my dad," she said.

The judge also placed "stay away" order from Mr. Rey and his wife.

A GoFundMe account has been set up to help the Rey family with medical expenses. If you would like to help, click here.
 

A Richmond police officer shot one of the department's K-9 officers on Tuesday morning after the dog bit him, authorities said.

Sgt. Nicole Abetkov said the act was in self-defense.

She said the dog, a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois, bit the officer just before 7 a.m. in the parking lot of the Richmond Police Department. The K-9’s handler left his car with the dog still in it to go inside the station for a meeting, police said. The dog somehow got out of the car and bit another police officer in civilian clothes.

The officer who was attacked, a four-year veteran of the department, fired his handgun once, according to police.

The officer was taken to the hospital after suffering unknown injures. The dog suffered critical injuries and was taken to a PETS Referral Center in Berkeley, Abetkov said. The dog has since been transferred to a UC Davis veterinary hospital and is now in a stable condition, authorities said.

It was not immediately clear what prompted the dog to bite the officer. Authorities said the dog had never had a problem before.

Police investigators said they plan to scrutinize the system of extra locks and remote controls packed into each K-9 patrol cars.

“Everything will be checked out with a fine-toothed comb,” Abetkov said.

Richmond police has a 54-year history of using police dogs – more than half of that time with the Belgian Malinois breed. The dogs were initially recruited to search Richmond’s numerous warehouses. Officers use them now mostly for tracking felony suspects and searching for evidence and narcotics.

NBC Bay Area's Chuck Coppola contributed to this report.

Residents at a northwest Florida nursing home have a rather young — and unusual — roommate.

Shelly is a 20-year-old African Spur Thigh Tortoise and has served as a therapy animal at Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center for the past two years, NBC affiliate WJHG reported.

"They will come and befriend Shelly and come out and greet Shelly every day and make it part of their routine,” said Brandy Meredith, an employee at the center and Shelly's caretaker.

The therapy tortoise has helped patients at the 42-bed facility cope with their injuries and disabilities. Some patients stay there temporarily as they recover from knee and hip replacements, but others remain permanently. They appreciate having Shelly there all the more.

Long-term patient Winnie Ruthbrookshire planted a garden in the center's courtyard where Shelly lives that's filled with his favorite foods.

“We’re just blessed to have something like that and to be able to see it [Shelly] and be one of our friends,” Ruthbrookshire told WJHG.

City of Berkeley inspectors found that the balcony that collapsed a week ago killing six students and injuring seven others during a 21st birthday party had badly rotted beams.

Inspectors found that the deck joist ends protruding from the exterior wall had been rotted by water damage.

Berkeley's Building and Safety division made the initial observations in a summary report issued Tuesday. Five of the six students who died were from Ireland, the sixth was an Irish-American who lived in Rohnert Park. Six of the seven students who were injured remain hospitalized. Twenty-one-year-old Sean Fahey from Dublin was released from the hospital and is expected to travel home to Ireland, the Irish Times reported. Fahey was treated at the Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley.

Based on their observations, city staff recommended that the Berkeley City Council adopt new and modified regulations to enhance the safety of all current and future buildings in Berkeley.

The recommended changes would make new balconies and other sealed areas that are exposed to weather subject to stricter requirements on materials, inspection and ventilation. The proposed rules would also require regular maintenance inspections for all such spaces for future and existing buildings.

"I'm going to propose, similar to San Francisco, owners get a structural engineer to inspect the buildings every five years," Eric Angstadt, director of Berkeley's Planning and Development Department, said at a press conference Tuesday.

Library Gardens, the site of the accident, is a 5-story, 176-unit apartment building located at 2020 Kittredge Street in downtown Berkeley which received its certificate of occupancy from the City of Berkeley in 2007. Building and Safety Division staff confirmed through their investigation that the building's approved plans complied with California Building code requirements in effect at that time. Staff said that all state building code-mandated inspections were also conducted.

City officials deemed another balcony in the same building structurally unsafe in the wake of the accident. The Library Gardens Apartment has been contoversial from its beginnings, as long documented in the Berkeley Daily Planet. In a 2006 article, the newspaper wrote about the debate about whether to turn the property into apartments or condos, and because the new construction demanded the demolition of one of the city's most popular parking lots.

Berkeley police have said that they are not going to launch a criminal investigation into the accident.

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Police in Shelby, North Carolina on Tuesday released video of the arrest of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old man accused of gunning down nine people at Bible study in a historic South Carolina church last week.

In the video, recorded by a police dash cam, four officers approach Roof's black Hyundai, some with guns drawn. They then frisk Roof and handcuff him without incident.

Roof was spotted in Shelby, about 250 miles from Charleston, by a florist on her way to work. Debbie Dills spotted the black car around 10:20 a.m. on Thursday and called a friend, who then notified police.

Roof has been charged with nine counts of murder in the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal, which investigators called a racial hate crime.

A woman attacked along a North County bike trail ran naked toward a nearby apartment complex to get help, according to Oceanside Police.

Residents of the complex near Costa Pacifica, west of Interstate 5 and North Coast Highway in Oceanside found the unclothed woman just before 11 p.m. Monday and called 911.

Oceanside Police say the 38-year-old victim had been sexually assaulted along the San Luis Rey River Trail Bike Path under the Coast Highway Bridge by an acquaintance.

The nearby residents gave the woman clothes while Oceanside Police searched the area for the possible suspect.

Oceanside Police said there was no immediate threat to public safety.
 

An NBC7 investigation into the dismissal of a disabled teenager from summer camp is now the subject of a federal lawsuit.

Devyn Solo's family filed a discrimination complaint Monday against the women's organization that sponsors the camp.

At 13, Solo earned a special invitation to the math and science camp last summer but after one day was sent home.

The women's organization that sponsors the camp, promotes self-confidence and equal rights but a lawsuit filed in the Federal Court Southern District, accuses the group of doing just the opposite.

Solo has cystic fibrosis. It requires two self-administered 20 minute treatments daily.

Rosalind Solo says her daughter was kicked out of Tech trek, by camp Co- Director Rozanne Child because that treatment was too much trouble.

“The way Devyn was treated and the way it was handled after made it very clear it was a systemic problem,” Devyn’s mother Rosalind said.

The complaint filed Monday in federal court , claims the American Association of University Women , violated the Americans with Disability act.

“That the defendants, which include the state and national organizations unlawfully discriminated against Devyn by ejecting her fromthe AAUW Tech Trek camp at the University of California, San Diego, solely based on her disability.”

“She's gone through counseling because of it. She and I have had a lot of conversations. She knows she is cared for and advocated for,” Rosalind said.

Two calls to the National and State AAUW were not returned Monday.

The AAUW national organization gave this statement to NBC7 Investigates last July, "Tech Trek at the University of California, San Diego, is a locally run program of AAUW of California. While we don't know the particulars of this situation at this time, we do know that AAUW of California has a 16-year reputation of providing excellent stem programming to girls throughout the state."

The lawsuit does not demand a specific dollar amount for damages but Attorney Peter Schey says they most certainly want
change.

“A nationwide order that requires the organization to protect the rights of young girls and women with disabilities,” Solo’s Attorney Peter Schey said.

Rosalind doesn't want her daughter discouraged. Devyn worked hard to get into Tech Trek Camp. It was a chance to prove herself against others without her disability.

“I want her to know there is some justice in the injustice that was done to her,” Rosalind said.

Solo's attorney says there is no response from AAUW yet because he is still trying to track down the organization's legal representatives.

He expects to give notice to them later this week.

An anniversary party is on tap this weekend for Twisted Manzanita Ales, a craft brewery based out of San Diego’s East County celebrating five years in business.

The microbrewery, with tasting rooms in Santee and Pacific Beach, will turn five with a big bash Saturday at SILO in Makers Quarter in downtown San Diego, at 753 15th St.

From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., craft beer lovers can sip and savor more than 20 varieties of Twisted Manzanita’s ales and sample some spirits, too. The head brewer and distiller will be on-hand for a meet-and-greet to talk about their craft.

Patrons will get a logo pint glass to use for sudsy samples and to keep as a souvenir.

For snacking, complimentary bites that pair well with beers will be available from vendors such as Carnitas Snack Shack, Nomad Donuts and Da Tuna Shack, to name a few. The brewery will also roast a whole pig for all to enjoy at the party.

For a very cool, sweet treat, shaved ice cocktails will be served mixed with the brewery’s SoCal Moonshine and Rebellious Rye Whiskey.

To ring in its 5th anniversary, Twisted Manzanita plans to release its first-ever sour beer at the party, where guests can taste the special “American Wild Ale.”

Entertainment at the bash will include live performances by local musicians.

Organizers say a shuttle service will pick up guests from both the Santee and Pacific Beach tasting rooms (10149 Prospect Ave. and 4652 Mission Blvd., respectively) and take guests to the event site downtown and back.

The brewery says 100 percent of all ticket sales from Sunday’s celebration will benefit non-profit EOD Warrior Foundation, a cause very close to members of the brewery. The foundation helps U.S. military service members wounded in the line of duty, as well as their families.

Tickets are available online here and cost $40 per person and $36 for military. A $10 designated driver ticket is also for sale.

Twisted Manzanita opened in 2010 as a three-barrel brew house. Five years later, the brewery now boasts 30 barrels with six 60-barrel fermenters with the capacity to brew up to 50,000 barrels annually. The craft brewery offers six year-round core beers, plus specialty releases, using new, unique ingredients sourced both locally and internationally.