PALMDALE, Calif. – A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy died after he was once shot in his patrol car Saturday night time by an unknown assailant and an investigation is underway that the sheriff mentioned will press the entire division’s sources into motion.
Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, 30, died after being transported to a health facility, Sheriff Robert Luna mentioned throughout a press convention past due Saturday evening.
The initial investigation confirmed Clinkunbroomer was once using whilst on responsibility and fired upon round 6 p.m., Luna mentioned.
Clinkunbroomer was once subconscious in the car when he was once discovered close to the intersection of Sierra Highway and Avenue Q in Palmdale by an individual Luna recognized as a “good Samaritan” who alerted team of workers on the Palmdale station of the sheriff’s division.
The deputy was once transported to Antelope Valley Medical Center in Lancaster, the place he was once handled for a gunshot wound.
“Despite the medical staff’s best efforts to save our deputy’s life, regrettably he succumbed to his injuries,” Luna mentioned.
Homicide investigators are conscious about video from a surveillance digicam that can have captured the capturing, Luna mentioned.
Luna mentioned he believed the capturing was once a “targeted attack” however the reason, and whether or not the deputy or the dep. in normal was once the objective, was once now not but recognized.
“We’re going to catch the person who did this,” Luna said. “Because every resource that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has to bear is going after you.”
Clinkunbroomer, who transferred to the Palmdale station in July 2018, was once a third-generation officer who adopted his grandfather and father into the sheriff’s division, Luna mentioned.
The sheriff added that his division was once running carefully with representatives from town of Palmdale, about 61 miles (98.1 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles.
“Palmdale loves the sheriff’s deputies and the deputies take very good care of Palmdale and love our community back,” Mayor Laura Bettencourt said at the press conference. “The person that did this is a coward and they will be caught.”
“It is sickening, heartbreaking news,” Republican state Sen. Scott Wilk, who represents Palmdale, posted previous in the night time on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter.