California Deputy Said He Was Shot In Line Of Duty. He Shot Himself.

On January 31, 2020, Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Deputy Sukhdeep Gill radioed for help after getting ambushed and shot on a dark rural road.

“Shots fired! Shots fired!” Gill yelled into the radio around 10:30 p.m., prompting officers from the SCCSO and San Jose, Morgan Hill, and Gilroy police departments to respond. Gill told the first officer to arrive that he had parked on the side of the road so that he could urinate while he was on patrol. He said that when he was walking back to his patrol car, a silver sedan with its headlights turned off drove up alongside and the passenger of the vehicle shot him. Gill was coincidentally shot right where his body camera was placed – destroying it – and told the responding officer that he fired two shots in the direction of the fleeing vehicle, according to a news release from the SCCSO.