Shelley Zimmerman, the chief of San Diego Police Department, said at a conference at 11:00 am local time that Jonathan DeGuzman, 16-year veteran of San Diego Police Department, was dead. They hear everyone’s love and support, thoughts and prayers, loud and clear, ” Zimmerman said.
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The shooting came as departments around the country are on high alert following the killing of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this month.
The precise circumstances of the shooting remain unclear. Police followed his blood to a ravine near the shooting and arrested him there, said The Los Angeles Times.
“We are still searching the area for other possible suspects”, authorities said early Friday. Gomez is still in the hospital, said Patch.
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Investigators viewed body-camera footage to learn how one San Diego police officer was killed and another seriously injured in a gunbattle during a traffic stop.
One officer was killed and another hospitalized after a traffic stop turned deadly Thursday evening in southeast San Diego. They were part of an elite gang suppression unit, said Channel 7 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 auto.
At least one unnamed suspect opened fire on officers shortly after being stopped by Jonathan “JD” DeGuzman and his partner, Wade Irwin of the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) in the city’s Southcrest neighborhood, according to a statement released by the department.
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. He has not yet been charged.
Zimmerman, who worked with DeGuzman before she was elevated to chief in 2014, said she informed DeGuzman’s wife 13 years ago that he survived the stabbing.
The other wounded officer, Wade Irwin, has just gone through a surgery and “is expected to survive the attempt on his life”, Zimmerman said.
“We’re talking very, very quickly”. He is also married and has a young child.
“I told both families that this city is behind you and it’s going to stay behind you, anything that they need, ” Faulconer said. “I know him. He talked about his children every day”. “And last night he lost his life trying to make a positive difference and trying to protect our community”. DeGuzman, 43, who previously survived a stabbing on the job.
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DeGuzman received the purple heart in 2003 after he was stabbed by a man he had stopped for speeding.
