Suspect arrested in fatal shooting of California deputy
Posted October 24, 2014 4:45 pm.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (NEWS1130) – Officials say they have apprehended a suspect in the fatal shooting of one deputy and the shooting of two other deputies and a bystander in California.
Placer County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Dena Erwin says 34-year-old Marcelo Marquez was taken alive Friday afternoon from a home in Auburn.
The shooting spree spanned 48 kilometres through two California counties.
Marquez was taken in at a home about 30 miles northwest of the Sacramento neighbourhood where a Sacramento County deputy was killed earlier in the day.
The condition of the other two deputies and the bystander was not immediately known.