A San Diego police officer was fatally shot and another was injured at a traffic stop late on Thursday, police said on Friday, and a wounded suspect was taken into custody.
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Among the officer deaths this summer were the July 17 killings of three officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a July 7 attack in Dallas that killed five officers.
PDT (0600 GMT) in Southcrest, a neighborhood in southeast San Diego, Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said at a news conference.
San Diego police have released the name of a suspect arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of one police officer and wounding of a second officer. One died in hospital, Zimmerman said. The circumstances were not immediately clear. Zimmerman said an operation was carried out in which forces surrounded a house where a “potential second suspect may be inside”.
The Latest on the shootings of two police officers in San Diego.
Police are not certain what the motive was for the double shooting; the officers called for emergency backup, and when officers arrived, they found them wounded and rushed them to the hospital in a patrol vehicle.
The four-year police department veteran and Marine reservist had just bought a meal for a child and was fatally shot by a suicidal man who pulled up alongside his cruiser on University Avenue at 45th Street on August 6, 2011.
Irwin was expected to make a full recovery, police said. A suspect is in custody, police tweeted.
Chief Shelley Zimmerman says in a Twitter post Friday morning that she had just left the hospital where the officer had just come out of surgery.
It was too early to say whether the officers had been ambushed, Zimmerman said.
Police are trying to determine if anyone else was involved in the shooting in southern San Diego and asked residents nearby to stay inside as they searched.
Nearly immediately a shootout ensued and the officers called for backup.
“It is extremely hard, but something you have to do”, she told reporters outside Scripps Mercy Hospital.
To the San Diego Police Department, the 43-year-old DeGuzman was the ideal officer, the kind who wanted the tough jobs and had the personal and professional qualifications to do them well.
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer denounced the shootings. It is only getting worse. The decade’s highest total came in 2011, with 73 officers shot dead.
DeGuzman died at a hospital.
The state also keeps track of officer deaths, with numbers dating back 25 years.
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Actually, that body camera footage might not be released to the public at all, according to San Diego Union-Tribune.
