Deputy Phillip Campas and Deputy Dizander Guerrero, members of the Sheriff’s Department’s SWAT team, were shot Sunday afternoon while approaching the house where the 41-year-old gunman was barricaded, authorities said. “It looks like a domestic violence situation,” Youngblood said, adding that the shooting underscores how “serious” domestic violence is and “how a restraining order is not bulletproof. “Fewer victims survived the injuries sustained in a mass shooting that was associated with [domestic violence,” the researchers concluded, “highlighting the lethality of these events.”Wasco Mayor Alex Garcia said in an interview that Sunday’s shooting – and domestic violence in general – ripple painfully through the community. The gunman was armed with an AK-47 style rifle and a handgun and shot at the SWAT team from inside the house. He was a patrol deputy and a member of the SWAT team, a recruit training officer and part of the honor guard.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 26, 2021 20:03 UTC