One sheriff’s deputy is dead, another was severely injured, and a third officer was shot during what’s being called an “ambush” attack in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was killed by an improvised explosive device after he and two other officers pursued a man suspected of having guns and bomb-making materials inside it. The deputies had responded to a 911 call about the suspicious van, but when they arrived, the van drove away. Officers pursued the suspect, 38-year-old Steven Carrillo, who drove down a driveway at his home and ambushed the deputies with guns and explosives when they got out of their vehicles, The Associated Press reported. Carrillo is reportedly an active-duty U.S. Air Force sergeant.
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