Reports from the shooting scene indicated that the suspect may have also been taken to Inland Valley Medical Center, but there was no immediate confirmation of those reports.Ī host of sheriff’s deputies entered the home on Hilldale Lane with guns drawn in an apparent search effort.
The suspect was hit, he was treated at the scene and was transported to the hospital. “The second deputy on the scene found (Calhoun) wounded in the street,” Bianco said. and “in the background she heard voices and it sounded like a confrontation was occurring,” Bianco said.ĭeputies were dispatched to a domestic violence and child custody call in the 18500 block of Hilldale Lane, just east of Grand Avenue, in the unincorporated community bordering Lake Elsinore, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.Ĭalhoun was the first deputy at the scene, but “we’re not sure about the initial contact,” Bianco said. news conference outside Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar where Calhoun died.īianco described Calhoun as a “husband, a son and would have been a dad.”Ī dispatcher took a call around 4:20 p.m. “I should not have to be here tonight,” Sheriff Chad Bianco said at a 9 p.m. Sheriff’s officials said earlier a suspect was in custody. “We are devastated to announce the passing of Deputy Darnell Calhoun who was killed in the line of duty this afternoon,” the sheriff’s department announced on its Twitter page just before 8 p.m. A Riverside County sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot during a confrontation with a domestic violence suspect this afternoon at a Lakeland Village home, the department’s second deputy killed in the line of duty in just over two weeks.
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