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LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (KABC) -- The fishy successful the fatal shooting of a Riverside County sheriff's lawman adjacent Lake Elsinore was identified Saturday arsenic mournful tributes continued to determination successful for the slain instrumentality enforcement officer.
Deputy Darnell Calhoun, 30, who had joined the section little than a twelvemonth ago, was changeable Friday portion responding to a home unit and kid custody telephone successful Lakeland Village and aboriginal died astatine a hospital.
The suspect, 42-year-old Jesse Navarro, was changeable by different responding lawman and hospitalized successful captious condition, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
Sheriff Chad Bianco announced Calhoun's decease Friday evening during a quality league extracurricular Inland Valley Medical Center successful Wildomar.
"I shouldn't beryllium present contiguous having to bash this again," Bianco said. "I'm devastated to archer of the nonaccomplishment of different of our lawman sheriffs who was killed successful the enactment of work today."
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the pursuing connection Saturday morning:
"Jennifer and I are heartbroken by the nonaccomplishment of Deputy Calhoun, a dedicated nationalist servant who made the eventual sacrifice successful the enactment of duty. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and each those helium served with astatine the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, who are mourning the achy nonaccomplishment of different lawman weeks ago. Deputy Calhoun died a leader and his bravery and selfless work volition ever beryllium remembered."
The incidental began soon earlier 4:30 p.m. Friday, erstwhile a dispatcher took a telephone and "in the inheritance she heard voices and it sounded similar a confrontation was occurring," Bianco said.
Deputies were dispatched to the 18500 artifact of Hilldale Lane, successful the unincorporated assemblage of Lakeland Village, which borders the metropolis of Lake Elsinore. Calhoun was the archetypal lawman astatine the scene, but "we're not definite astir the archetypal contact," the sheriff said.
The 2nd lawman to get astatine the country recovered Calhoun wounded successful the street, according to Bianco. "A gunfight ensued with the suspect, who was shot. The fishy was treated astatine the country and transported to the hospital."
"He's a husband, a son. He would person been a dad," Bianco said of Calhoun, adding that the slain deputy's woman is pregnant.
He said nary 1 ever had a antagonistic happening to accidental astir Calhoun, who joined the Sheriff's Department successful February 2022 aft spending 2 years with the San Diego Police Department.
"He was ever truthful positive," Bianco said, adding that Calhoun has a "fantastic family".
"I retrieve erstwhile helium was sworn in," Bianco said, concisely flooded with emotion. "I hugged his parent and told her I would instrumentality attraction of him."
Late Friday, a procession of instrumentality enforcement officers escorted Calhoun's assemblage from Inland Valley Medical Center to the coroner's bureau successful Perris.
On Saturday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta besides offered his condolences.
"Deputy Darnell Calhoun represented the champion of the California tone -- protecting and serving the nationalist with valor," Bonta said Saturday. "On behalf of the astir 6,000 men and women of the California Department of Justice, I widen our deepest condolences to Deputy Calhoun*s family, colleagues, and the full Riverside community. His work and sacrifice volition not beryllium forgotten."
Funeral services are pending.
In precocious December, different Riverside County deputy, Isaiah Cordero, was changeable and killed successful an brushwood with a felon who had an extended transgression record. The gunman successful that incidental was changeable and killed by deputies aft a chase.
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