(KMJ)- A Downey police officer was found fatally shot Thursday while sitting inside his personal vehicle in the police station’s parking lot.
Homicide Lieutenant John Corina of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says two male suspects ran toward Officer Ricardo Galvez about 11:08 p.m. Wednesday as he was seated in the driver’s seat of his vehicle at the Downey Police Department’s parking lot. The men fired at Galvez and killed him. After shooting, the two got into a vehicle and fled.
The pursuit of that ended in Montebello where multiple people were taken into police custody.
“It appears that this officer was targeted,” Corina said. “It doesn’t look like it was random.”
Galvez had been with the Downey Police Department for five years and had served in the United States as a U.S. Marine Corps.
