New details emerge of Davis police officer's ambush murderIn a press conference Friday night, 24 hours after Corona was killed, police detailed the finding of the shooting suspect.
While Corona was responding to a multi-car collision, the suspect rode up on a bicycle, in the shadows, and opened fire.
"This clearly to us was an ambush," said Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel.
He hit Corona once, and she fell to the ground, police said.
Then, the suspect continued shooting her, unloading an entire magazine.
When he was out of bullets, the suspect reloaded and began shooting in other directions, police said.
Firetrucks were struck by the gunfire. A firefighter was hit in the boot but not injured. A bystander wearing a backpack says the backpack was hit by a bullet.
No one was injured, except for Corona.
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Police say after his shooting rampage, the gunman fled southbound on C Street toward 3rd Street. He then circled back up E Street, confronting residents.
He found a roommate of his and reportedly acted like nothing had happened. They went inside a residence and watched as officers swarmed the area, police said.
Officers soon found him using info they got from a backpack he dropped.
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A robot with a camera was sent inside, and this is how officers discovered the suspect was dead.
His identity is not being released.
It isn't clear to me why the POS' name is yet unreleased. My best guess is that DPD thinks the POS was more than an opportunist who took advantage of a traffic accident, and are obscuring what they know.
Backing up a bit, this story is getting national coverage. The young lady was a new police officer, just 22. Davis is in central CA, the largest city in Yolo County. Officer Corona's Dad was a sheriff officer in Colusa County for 26 years, the county just north of Yolo County. Evidently she and her family lived in Arbuckle, a town in southern Colusa County. If you've seen the picture of her having her badge pinned on, the man doing it is her Dad. My next door neighbor attended police academy with her Dad.
About 7 miles north of Davis and 27 miles SE of Arbuckle is the county seat of Yolo County, Woodland. Now a city of ~60K, it was 15K-20K when I was growing up 6 miles west of town. I graduated from Woodland High School (Go Wolves!) and the Davis High School Blue Devils were a rival. Agriculture is the major industry in Yolo County, and Davis has a University of California campus (which is why its population is greater than Woodland).
Set aside the silly stereotypes of rural people being a bunch of redneck racists when talking of Yolo County. Every population has a few idiots, and a "farmer's tan" was pretty common, but the farming people among whom I grew up (including my Dad) just were not racists. Not a few were Hispanics, whose families had lived in the area for generations (maybe back to when CA was a Mexican state). When I was growing up ... there were Chinese families (whose ancestors may have arrived during the Gold Rush, in the early 1850s). There were several Japanese families, several Filipino families, black families, a Korean family, and Indian family ... in a largish town of 15K, with a similar population of farmers in the surrounding area, racism would have been as untenable as it would have been stupid. The schools I attended were not segregated; nor were those same schools segregated when my parents attended them nearly a hundred years ago.
Obviously, much has changed in the 45+ years since I graduated from high school and left Woodland. But I do not think this murderer was the kind of
racist-redneck-militia-southeren-baptist type DUpipo want him to have been. My top 3 wild-ass guesses are: an illegal with a violent criminal background; a cop-hating Antifoid; a jihadi.