California detective shoots and kills suspect who assaulted him in office at police headquarters, chief says

A person broke into the Fresno Police Division’s headquarters shortly earlier than midday on Tuesday and began assaulting a detective, who then shot and killed the suspect, Police Chief Paco Balderrama mentioned. 

The detective, a 25-year veteran of the pressure, sustained lacerations to his head and neck and was transported to an area hospital for therapy. 

The suspect was pronounced deceased after being shot a minimum of as soon as within the detective’s workplace on the Metropolis Corridor Annex in downtown Fresno. 

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Police are nonetheless making an attempt to establish the suspect, who Balderrama described as about 300 kilos and 6-feet tall. 

“This individual ought to by no means have been in police headquarters and actually had no enterprise right here,” Balderrama mentioned, noting that the suspect didn’t have an appointment with anybody within the constructing. 

“We don’t know what the motive is at this level. What we do know is that this final couple of years now we have seen a rise in assaults on cops throughout the nation.”

Balderrama mentioned it’s unclear how the suspect bought inside, noting that each entrance to police headquarters requires a key and the car parking zone has a gate. 

“It’s one thing that may be very troubling to me… that an individual with dangerous intentions might enter into police headquarters and trigger hurt to certainly one of my cops,” he mentioned. 

“The officer did what he felt he needed to do to guard his personal life.”