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Police later determined there were four people inside the home at the time: two men, a woman and a baby girl. 25 update that the woman had been found dead inside the home.Īuthorities determined on Monday that Jones died of injuries from shooting himself, although he was also shot by police, according to department spokesperson Sgt. She was taken to a hospital where she died of her injuries on Friday afternoon. Police later clarified in a Feb. Officers entered the home and found Jones dead and the woman critically injured. As the gunman fled, surveillance video showed the patrol vehicle's passenger-side door open and one of the wounded deputies, described as a 31-year-old mother of a 6-year-old, stumble out.A SWAT team arrived at the scene and used ballistic shields to rescue the baby, who was uninjured. Jones fired shots in their direction. The shooter ran to a black four-door sedan and sped away, authorities said. Surveillance video released by the sheriff's department showed an individual dressed in black shorts, a dark jacket and wielding a pistol walk up to the vehicle and shoot through the passenger-side window without warning. Transit Center in Compton, authorities said. 12 as the two deputies, whose names have not been released by the sheriff's department, sat in a marked patrol vehicle near the Martin Luther King Jr. Murray's neck, and then they brought him to the ground before I was told to get out," said Keenan, adding that Murray was dressed in a suicide gown, or a padded blanket garment, despite not being suicidal.Ī spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had no immediate comment, telling ABC News he hadn't heard of any reports of problems at the jail concerning Murray, but would look into the matter. "I witnessed one of the deputies take his forearm and place it across the back of Mr. Keenan said that when he went to visit Murray at the jail on Thursday morning, he watched deputies manhandle his client. He's informed me that while in jail he's been threatened, harassed, denied food." He is accused of shooting two sheriff's deputies. Murray's safety at the jail," Keenan said. "The only thing I can tell you is I am concerned with Mr.

Murray's lawyer, deputy public defender Jack Keenan, told ABC News on Thursday that he could not comment on the case because he'd yet to receive any investigative reports or evidence from prosecutors. Murray, who was ordered held in jail on $6.15 million, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted, Lacey added.

Murray pleaded not guilty to the charges, and a preliminary hearing has been set for Oct. Murray was arraigned on Wednesday in the Compton branch of Los Angeles Superior Court on two counts of willful, deliberate and premeditated attempted murder of a peace officer and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon, according to a statement from Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey. Officials claimed that at the time of Murray's arrest they didn't know for sure he was the alleged gunman. But when he was arrested, sheriff's officials told reporters that Murray was not the suspect in the shooting of the deputies and that the search for that gunman, which prompted a reward that soared to $675,000 with private donations, was ongoing.ĭuring Wednesday's news conference, Villanueva faced numerous questions about why his agency initially ruled out Murray as the ambush suspect. 15, when he was arrested in connection with an alleged carjacking and a 10-hour standoff with police in the Lynwood section of Los Angeles, sheriff's officials said. And I can report today, we have found our suspect.'' And that evening, I said we will find this man. "These acts and that day, I will not forget it, and it represents the worst in humanity and it shocked the whole nation. "This cowardly ambush was followed by bystanders celebrating and cheering that the deputies had been shot, and that followed at the hospital - the sanctity, the quiet sanctity of the hospital - with protesters cheering and chanting for the deputies to die,'' Villanueva said.

12 surprise attack showed "the worst of humanity - a cowardly act where a suspect ambushed and shot and attempted to kill two of our deputies.'' Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced the arrest during a news conference on Wednesday, saying the Sept. A suspect has been arrested in the brazen ambush shooting that left two Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies severely wounded, authorities said.Īuthorities identified the suspect as 36-year-old Deonte Murray.