A 29-year-old man was arrested after barricading himself in a house for a number of hours earlier than surrendering with weapons.
Authorities in the US metropolis of Los Angeles have arrested a suspect in reference to the homicide of a sheriff’s deputy who was ambushed and fatally shot at a site visitors cease resulting in a reward of $250,000 being supplied for info.
Ryan Clinkunbroomer, 30, was shot as he sat in his patrol automotive at a crimson gentle simply exterior a sheriff’s station on Saturday night within the metropolis of Palmdale, about 90km (55 miles) northeast of Los Angeles on Sunday.
A 29-year-old man was arrested early on Monday after barricading himself inside a house within the metropolis of Palmdale for a number of hours before surrendering with weapons, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna instructed a information convention.
Officers recognized the arrested suspect as Kevin Cataneo Salazar of Palmdale.
Luna stated authorities haven’t but decided a motive for the killing of Deputy Clinkunbroomer and described the scenario as “fluid”, saying there could possibly be extra arrests.
“I really feel extraordinarily assured that we’ve the correct particular person in custody,” Luna stated.
“Our deputy was in uniform in a marked black-and-white police car proper in entrance of the station,” Luna stated. “Why did he do that? I do not know. Was he focused? I’m assuming he was however … our intent is to seek out out.”
The suspect’s mom, Marle Salazar, instructed the Los Angeles Occasions her son was identified as paranoid schizophrenic about 5 years in the past.
“My son is mentally unwell, and if he did one thing, he wasn’t in his full psychological capability,” she stated in an interview with the paper.
Clinkunbroomer had simply left the sheriff’s station in Palmdale, a metropolis of greater than 167,000 residents within the excessive desert of northern Los Angeles County, when he was shot and killed. A passer-by noticed him and alerted station personnel.
The division later launched grainy surveillance video of a darkish sedan that pulled alongside the patrol automotive within the moments earlier than the taking pictures.
Early Monday, a SWAT workforce from the division’s Particular Enforcement Bureau served a search warrant on the residence and referred to as for all occupants to come back out, the sheriff stated.
Relations got here out however the suspect barricaded himself inside, he stated. Deputies used de-escalation strategies together with negotiators earlier than they “deployed chemical brokers” and the suspect surrendered, Luna stated.
He didn’t determine the weapons that have been seized.
Marle Salazar stated she referred to as deputies at the least twice up to now, asking for assist when her son refused to take his medicine and grew aggressive in direction of himself. She stated he had by no means harm anybody earlier than and his aggression was at all times self-directed.
“I’ve referred to as the police a number of instances,” she instructed the Occasions. “Ultimately, they might say, ‘He’s an grownup, so if he doesn’t wish to take [his medication], we are able to’t do something’.”
