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Suspect in ambush shooting which left one deputy dead and two more injured is revealed to be active-duty Air Force sergeant - as FBI investigate link to deadly drive-by attack on a federal officer a week earlier
2020-06-08
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Air Force Sergeant Steven Carrillo, 32, is suspect in ambush which left sheriff's deputy dead

  • Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was killed on Saturday in Ben Lomond, California

  • Two other Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies were wounded

  • Gutzwiller leaves behind a small child and his pregnant wife

  • A 911 caller claimed they saw guns and bomb making materials inside a van

  • Gutzwiller and another deputy responded and saw the van driving away

  • After following the van to a home, they got out of their patrol car

  • That's when they were ambushed with gunfire and explosives, authorities said

  • FBI is also investigating whether the ambush is linked to the fatal shooting of a Federal security officer, Dave Underwood, 53, near a US courthouse on May 29

  • In 2018, Carrillo's wife, US Air Force Airman 1st Class Monika Carrillo, was found dead in an apparent suicide
Related:
Carrillo: 2020-06-07 Deputy Killed, 2 Other Officers Shot in California Ambush
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