San Diego’s police chief says an officer was shot and killed and another was injured after they made a traffic stop late Thursday.
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The shooting comes with law officers around the country on alert following the killing of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La., this month.
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“We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at the San Diego Police Department and all who work in law enforcement”.
Before 8 a.m. on Friday, police investigations led officers to a house in the neighborhood of Shelltown, about a half-mile away from the initial crime scene, according to the Associated Press.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacted on Twitter writing: “Two policeman just shot in San Diego, one dead”. Police would not immediately confirm whether the standoff is related to the shooting, reports CBS affiliate KFMB. Nearly immediately a shootout ensued and the officers called for backup.
It has been nearly 13 years since former San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne pinned one of the department’s purple hearts on Officer Jonathan “J.D”. The police chief says he’s expected to survive.
Nearly immediately, they called for emergency backup, Zimmerman said. “Seconds to a minute or so”.
Officer DeGuzman was a 43-year-old married father of two who had been on the San Diego police force for 16 years and was, along with Irwin, a member of an elite gang unit.
Officer Wade Irwin, 32, a nine-year veteran, was in serious condition but is expected to survive, Zimmerman said.
“This is what we signed up for it’s inherently unsafe”, said Officer Kepner.
“We’re talking very, very quickly”.
The mortally wounded officer suffered multiple bullet wounds and was taken in another officer’s vehicle to Scripps Mercy Hospital in Hillcrest, where he later died despite the “heroic efforts” by police and doctors to save his life, according to the chief. Residents in the area have been ordered to stay indoors while police hunt the suspect.
Pray for his family, the San Diego Police Department tweeted. A helicopter hovered above.
Moments later, officers arrived to find one colleague fatally shot and the other critically wounded.
She said Cassani was arrested outside a house that SWAT had surrounded for hours.
CBS News 8’s Gene Kang gives the latest update on the arrest of that possible second suspect. Investigators had not determined whether he was involved in the shooting, but he had a warrant out for his arrest from Anaheim.
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“It’s a little bit of a long haul until he makes a full recovery, but the good news is that he is going to survive and he is going to recover”, she said outside the hospital.
