LOS ANGELES – Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a 36-year-old man with a brazen ambush on two Los Angeles County sheriff’s officers this month, a seatless shooting while sitting in an outdoor police car at an exercise station.
The officers suffered head injuries in the 9/12 attack and have since been discharged from the hospital. Sheriff Alex Villanueva said his recovery would be a long procedure and would come with other reconstructive surgeries.
The suspect, Deonte Lee Murray, pleaded guilty to the attempted murder and other fees wednesday and faces life in a criminal if convicted.
Murray’s attorney, Jack Keenan, declined to comment and said he had still noticed the evidence from prosecutors. Murray is being held in prison on a $ 6. 15 million bond and is scheduled to return to court in November.
The sheriff’s office arrested Murray two weeks ago in connection with a separate carjacking, but officials at the time said it was not similar to the ambush case.
Murray has a history of criminals, adding convictions for promoting and possessing narcotics, possession of firearms, receiving stolen goods, breaking and breaking in and terrorist threats, the government said. Wednesday’s criminal complaint includes accusations of gang settlement.
Investigators on Wednesday provided an express reason for the attack, “apart from the fact that he obviously hates the police and needs to kill them,” said Captain Kent Wegener, leader of the police office. Sheriff’s homicide.
In the shooting, which the sheriff said was “the worst of humanity,” the surveillance video shows a user walking towards the patrol car, who parked at a subway station in compton city, and firing a gun on the passenger side. Window.
The agents, a 31-year-old woguy and a 24-year-old boy who graduated in combination from the sheriff’s academy 14 months ago, asked for help on the radio despite their injuries.
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Suspect fled in a black Mercedes Benz sedán. Investigators discovered that this type of vehicle was stolen on September 1 in a carjacking where he fired the driving force. Photographs of the kidnapping suspect gave the impression of matching the photographs of the ambush, Wegener said. , strengthening the link between the two cases.
On September 15, an investigator placed the suspect behind the wheel of another vehicle and tried to arrest him, the suspect threw a firearm out of the car in a chase before leaving the vehicle in Lynwood city, the suspect fled and was eventually captured after a nearly nine-hour confrontation with police. The black Mercedes was discovered nearby.
That day, Villanueva and other sheriff’s officers told reporters that the carjacking suspect was not linked to the ambush case. On Wednesday, he defended his movements that deceived the public, saying the police had no hard evidence at the time before telling the citizens. that the suspect was related to such a felony.
“We’ll tell them everything we suspect,” the sheriff said, adding that the ambush investigation could have been compromised if the call had been made public sooner.
Ballistic evidence of the weapon, a weapon called a ghost that is homemade and un-registered, that launched the chase showed that it was the one used in the attack on MPs, Wegener said.