Riverside County sheriff's deputy dies after being shot in Jurupa Valley, sources say - KABC-TV

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- A Riverside County sheriff's lawman was rushed to a infirmary and aboriginal died aft being changeable successful Jurupa Valley connected Thursday, sources told Eyewitness News.

The fishy successful the shooting was besides dead, aft a pursuit done Riverside County ended with gunshots connected the 15 Freeway.

The deputy, whose individuality was not released, was transported to Riverside Community Hospital, a spokesperson for the Riverside Fire Department said.

Dozens of instrumentality enforcement vehicles, galore of them motorcycles, gathered extracurricular the infirmary to escort the slain deputy's assemblage successful a procession to the coroner's bureau successful Perris.

Authorities were capable to place a fishy and pursued the idiosyncratic successful a pickup motortruck implicit respective freeways successful Riverside County. Video showed dozens of instrumentality enforcement vehicles pursuing the pickup adjacent down arsenic the motortruck fled astatine speeds astir 45-50 mph. The fishy fled implicit the 60 and 15 freeways and the pursuit came to an extremity adjacent Norco nether the 5th Street overpass connected the southbound 15 Freeway.

Witnesses accidental astatine 1 constituent they saw the fishy seemingly waving a weapon astatine different vehicles during the chase.

At the end, the motortruck was connected the enarthrosis of the freeway, pinned connected the embankment by a instrumentality enforcement bearcat. The fishy was seemingly killed aft astatine slightest 2 shots were fired done the beforehand windshield of the pickup truck.

Details of the lawman shooting were not instantly available, but it is believed the lawman was connected a motorcycle and was attempting to marque a postulation halt successful the Rubidoux conception of Jurupa Valley erstwhile the shooting occurred.

News video from the country showed exigency vehicles, including much than a twelve instrumentality enforcement vehicles, astatine the intersection of Condor Drive and Golden West Avenue.

DEVELOPING: More details volition beryllium added to this study arsenic they go available.

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