Man Who Shot California Cop Sought; Charges in Other Killing

Investigators with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff-Coronor's office and Paso Robles Police Department investigate a homicide near the Union Pacific railroad tracks north of the train station in downtown Paso Robles, as law enforcement agencies responded to an early morning shooting in the Central Coast city after a sheriff's deputy was wounded, in Calif., on June 10, 2020. David Middlecamp/The Tribune of San Luis Obispo/AP

LOS ANGELES—Hundreds of California police officers were hunting June 11 for a gunman suspected of opening fire at a police station, wounding a deputy with a shot to the face and killing a transient man with a bullet to the back of his head.

Authorities described being a step behind the suspect, 26-year-old Mason James Lira, since he opened fire at the downtown Paso Robles Police Department before dawn Wednesday. Officials later discovered the body of the transient, who had been shot at close range.