Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, 30, was 'shot in his patrol car,' law enforcement officials said.
A deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has died after being shot while sitting in a patrol vehicle in Palmdale on Saturday, his office said.
"At approximately 6 p.m. an LASD Palmdale Deputy was found in medical distress in front of Palmdale Sheriff Station," the sheriff's office said inClinkunbroomer, who was in uniform, was working in a patrol car from the Palmdale sheriff's station when he was discovered unconscious in his vehicle by a good Samaritan, LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said at a media briefing Sunday. They immediately reported it to the Palmdale station personnel.
Authorities have not publicly named a suspect or motive in the case, but Luna said he believes the shooting was targeted. "It's all on the table. It could have been our deputy. It could have been just the fact that he was representing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, as one of our employees," Luna said. "We don't know, everything's on the table.""He ambushed and killed, murdered one of our deputies. We need your help to get him off the street," Luna said.
The shooting was "senseless and horrific," said Janice Hahn, chair of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, on
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