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Can someone more TECHY than me download this and attach?

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California Shootout Kills Highway Patrol Officer.

A California Highway Patrol officer was killed and two others injured in a shootout on Monday evening in Riverside, Calif., that also left a suspect dead and commuters scrambling for safety during the evening rush, the authorities said.

One officer was in critical condition at a hospital late Monday night and another received minor injuries, according to Scott Parker, assistant chief of the Highway Patrol’s inland division. Two civilians were also wounded, he said at a news conference.

The confrontation began when a driver was pulled over for a traffic stop at about 5:30 p.m. near Interstate 215 in Riverside, about 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. It was not clear why he was stopped.

A Highway Patrol officer was planning to impound the man’s white pickup truck and called for a tow truck, Chief Parker said at the news conference. But as the officer was filling out paperwork, the man pulled out a rifle and shot the officer.

He called for backup, and several other police officers arrived at the scene. The gunman shot two more Highway Patrol officers, Chief Parker said, and a fourth Highway Patrol officer who arrived at the scene fatally shot the gunman.

“It was a long and horrific gun battle,” Chief Sergio G. Diaz of the Riverside Police Department said at the news conference.

The first Highway Patrol officer who was shot was flown to a nearby hospital and died, Chief Parker said. Gov. Gavin Newsom identified the officer as A. M., 34.

On Tuesday, the coroner’s office in Riverside County identified the gunman as Aaron Luther, 49, of Beaumont, Calif., and The Associated Press reported he had an extensive criminal record that included a conviction for attempted murder in the 1990s.

Chief Diaz said the authorities did not believe there were additional suspects, adding that investigators would try over the next few days to piece together what the gunman’s motive might have been.

“We don’t know where the suspect was coming from, where he was headed to, what his affiliations are,” Chief Diaz said. “We don’t know his motive for this crime.”

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Here’s quite a bit more details on the story.

California shootout: Officer killed by gunman to be mourned by highway patrol

LOS ANGELES — Bells will toll Wednesday during a solemn California Highway Patrol ceremony for an officer killed this week when a motorist he pulled over grabbed a rifle and opened fire during a traffic stop.

The bell toll tribute ceremony for Andre Moye, Jr. at the highway patrol's academy in the city of West Sacramento will replace the agency's plan to celebrate its 90th anniversary, the highway patrol said in a statement.

Moye had stopped 49-year-old Aaron Luther a freeway in the Southern California city of Riverside on Monday, and officials have said he probably did not know that Luther had a long and violent criminal history.

Riverside shootout: California Highway Patrol officer killed, 2 injured; suspect dead

'Long and horrific gun battle': Police search for motive

The motorcycle officer was filling out paperwork to impound Luther's pickup truck when Luther, who was outside the vehicle and not restrained, reached inside, pulled out a rifle and started shooting on the freeway's overpass.

Moye, 34, was fatally wounded but called for help and two responding officers were shot in the legs while frightened motorists ducked for cover from dozens of flying bullets.

Public records showing a person's criminal history aren't typically something an officer has access to during a traffic stop. CHP Inland Division Chief Bill Dance said it's not clear whether Moye asked a dispatcher to seek any additional information on Luther, 49, who was convicted of attempted murder in 1994 and also had convictions for assault, domestic violence, unlawful possession of a firearm and battery.

John Aresta, police chief in Malverne, New York, and a past president of the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police, said an officer would have almost no way of knowing a driver's criminal history during a traffic stop. When an officer runs a vehicle's license plate and a driver's license, the reports will usually come back listing the registered owner, if it's been reported stolen and if the license has been suspended or revoked. Active warrants may also be available, he said.

It's not going to come up with a criminal history and it's not going to come with an asterisk saying 'bad guy,'" Aresta said.

Luther did have a bench warrant dating from 2017 after he failed to appear in court to answer a CHP misdemeanor for driving with a suspended or revoked license.

Moye had been with the CHP for about three years and was a motorcycle officer for roughly a year.

"His mother told me this was his dream job and he loved going to work," Dance said. "It's what he always wanted to do."

Dance said Moye was an "outstanding" officer devoted to public service. He is survived by his wife, mother, father, stepfather, two brothers, two sisters and a large extended family, Dance said.

Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered flags at half-staff Tuesday at the state Capitol and called Moye's death devastating. Newsom, who took office in January, said he's already been to "too many" funerals of officers killed in the line of duty.

"It's just unacceptable and we need to push back against any notion that these folks are not the heroes that they are," he said, adding that the death is another example of the "normalization of gun violence that we've long accepted in this country but no other country in the world would accept."

Luther's wife and father, meanwhile, were trying to make sense of his actions. They offered condolences to Moye's family.

"I'm so sorry for the officer," Luther's wife, McKenzie Luther, told the Southern California News Group. "I know his family is going through the same thing I am."

She said her husband called her after he was stopped Monday afternoon. He told her he was pulled over for driving alone in the carpool lane and had an expired license and no registration. He said his truck was being impounded and asked her to give him a ride.

She arrived at the scene during the shootout and a bullet pierced the windshield of the car she was driving in with her children.

She said he was depressed and suggested he might have wanted officers to kill him.

Luther was paroled from state prison in 2004 after serving about 10 years of a 12-year sentence for attempted second-degree murder with an enhancement for the use of a firearm, first-degree burglary and second-degree burglary, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Court records show Luther also was arrested in 2007 on felony assault charges and took a no-contest plea deal that sentenced him to 90 days in jail. He also was charged with multiple felonies in San Bernardino County and pleaded no contest in 2010 to assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Southern California News Group.

As a felon, Luther was not supposed to have a gun and his father, Dennis Luther, said he's not sure how his son came to possess one. He said his son had struggled with drugs, was depressed and in pain from knee injuries that left him unable to work his construction job.

Luther said his son was living off and on with his wife and three pre-teen children in Beaumont, near Riverside.

"I think he couldn't cope with his marital problems," Luther said. But the children "were everything to him."

Aaron Luther was a top skateboarder growing up but he began using drugs and "that's what ruined him," Dennis Luther said. "I'm devastated."

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Horrible shit....

RIP CHP Officer Moye

Speedy recovery to the wounded

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going back to cali cali

[CrunchyCripple]

His children were everything to him?

So he calls his wife to come to the scene before he decides on a gun battle - where he nearly shoots his wife/kids.

Fantastic


Crazy and logic never have been bedfellows.

[Oswald2001]

Well, the whole 'Life' thing hadn't really worked out that well for him and he wanted to reclaim some sense of self-determination.

However misguided...




I am very sorry that civilians and officers were injured/killed.

[fendi87]

3 piglets from philly were just shot also must be piggy purge day