Deputy will survive, Sacramento Sheriff’s says, but Carmichael shooting circumstances unclear
The deputy who was shot Friday night in Carmichael in what investigators say was a potentially gang-related shooting is expected to survive, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.
The 47-year-old deputy, a 15-year-veteran of the Sheriff’s Office, was taken by a fellow deputy by patrol car to Mercy San Juan Medical Center, said Sgt. Kionna Rowe, a sheriff’s spokeswoman, following a shooting at a Carmichael apartment complex that killed a suspect.
The shooting was first reported just before 8:15 p.m. in an apartment complex near Ranger Way and Rampart Drive, the Sheriff’s Office announced. In a Saturday update, the Sheriff’s Office clarified that a gang suppression unit had been conducting a follow-up investigation of a shooting in southern Sacramento County which led them to Carmichael.
Detectives arriving at the apartment complex Friday spotted a vehicle of interest to the investigation, and after making contact with the occupants, “multiple shots were fired,” according to the Sheriff’s Office. It remains unclear who opened fire upon whom.
Rowe said one suspect died at the scene and a second — an occupant of the vehicle — was taken into custody uninjured. That suspect, who was not identified, was booked into Sacramento County jail on unrelated felony charges.
Deputies said authorities searched for others involved in the incident until just before midnight. No other suspects were located by Saturday afternoon, the Sheriff’s Office said.
“The wounded detective remains hospitalized in serious, but stable condition and is expected to survive,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a prepared statement. “The detective has held several assignments within the Sheriff’s Office including his current assignment in the Gang Suppression Unit.”
During the three-hour ordeal, some residents shopping at the nearby Save Mart were stranded as authorities told nearby residents using a helicopter to lock their doors. Residents were told to call 911 if they saw anything suspicious as a K9 unit and armored vehicles roamed the area.
By midnight, the search had ended, but the roads remained closed well into the night as groups of people had streamed to the yellow tape through the evening and at the nearby Chevron gas station to watch the activity unfold.
“It’s definitely an active scene — it’s an active and ongoing investigation,” Rowe said Friday night. “We have several of our homicide detectives here, we have our crime scene investigators that have taken over the scene to really try and figure out what led up to this incident.”
The Coroner’s Office will identify the person was killed. Some onlookers who said they knew the victim but didn’t want to identify him said he was a man in his 20s.
This story was originally published January 15, 2021 at 9:26 PM.
