A Virginia sheriff's deputy who police say traveled to Riverside to kill three family members of a 15-year-old girl he tried to sexually extort online killed himself with a government-issued firearm, authorities said Saturday.
in Riverside, a city about 50 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.
"Our detectives determined the gun used was Edwards' department-issued semi-automatic service pistol," sheriff's spokeswoman Gloria Huerta said in a statement. to engage in a romantic relationship with the girl and obtain her personal information by deceiving her with a false identity, known as"catfishing," police said.
Edwards was a former Virginia state trooper and was a sheriff's deputy in Washington County, Virginia, at the time of the killings.
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