![]() “I don’t remember her talking about anything else than wanting to become an officer,” said Gomez, who said her cousin was an athletic star in high school, excelling in volleyball, basketball and track and grew up in a tight-knit family in the town of Arbuckle.Ĭorona’s father, Jose Merced Corona, spent 26 years as a Colusa county sheriff’s sergeant before retiring and getting elected to the county’s board of supervisors last November. “She was the best of us,” said Officer Mike Yu, after placing a “Blue Lives Matter” flag at the crime scene, about a mile from the police station.Īs the eldest of four daughters, Corona grew up dreaming of becoming a law enforcement officer like her father, said her cousin, Emily Gomez, 26. ![]() ![]() Corona’s colleagues, family and friends mourned a vibrant life. Residents placed flowers at a memorial outside the police department, where flags flew at half-staff. The attack occurred in a residential neighborhood near a park that hosts a farmer’s market. A candlelight vigil was scheduled Saturday night. Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statement saying the officer died “protecting her community from harm”. She had only been patrolling solo for about two weeks, the chief said, adding that from the janitor to the police chief, Corona “just wanted to be everybody’s friend, and was”. Corona was the first officer to die in the line of duty since 1959. The shooting devastated the Davis police department. They found two semi-automatic handguns in the home. Police sent a robotic camera in and found the gunman had shot himself in the head. “He shouted some stuff, went back in and came back out with a firearm, then went back inside, pushed a couch in front of the door and officers heard a gunshot,” Pytel said. The chief said as police began to surround it, he stepped outside wearing a bulletproof vest. The gunman left behind a backpack that helped police track him to the house. “He didn’t show any sign that he was involved in the incident,” Pytel said, and even went outside to watch as police began rushing to the shooting scene. At the rental home a few blocks away, he chatted and hung out with his roommate. ![]() The chief said that after the shooting, the killer “basically circled the block and went home”. Last year, the man reported being a victim of a crime. Police had previous contact with the man, but nothing suspicious or indicating he had mental issues, the chief said. “It was pretty damn disturbing seeing someone do that and just walk away.” “He was just calm, cool and collected about it,” he said. Kingston, who followed at a distance, lost him in the crowd. Shaun Kingston, 39, saw the gunman shoot at the firetruck, “dump a clip and put another one in” and begin calmly walking away. Nobody was wounded, although a firefighter was struck in a boot as he ran and a girl later found a bullet lodged in a textbook in her backpack, the police chief said. The gunman shot at a firetruck, a bus and a house, pausing to reload. “When I looked up and I saw the officer on the ground, he was already walking due west … just shooting at what looked like random people to me.” “The person was behind me,” he told the Sacramento Bee. He had handed Corona his license and she was returning it when he heard shots from close behind his right shoulder. “We’re speculating that she never even saw him,” Pytel said.Ĭhristian Pascual, 25, was one of the drivers involved in the crash. She was shot in the neck and then several other times as she lay on the ground. Corona, 22, died within minutes of arriving at the scene of a three-car accident.
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