$250,000 Reward Offered as Detectives Search for Assailant Who Shot Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy

Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department via AP

PALMDALE, Calif.—Authorities asked for the public’s help and offered a $250,000 reward as investigators searched Sunday for the assailant who shot and killed a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy as he sat in his patrol car at an intersection.

Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, 30, died at a hospital after being found unconscious in the vehicle while on duty around 6 p.m. Saturday in the city of Palmdale, Sheriff Robert Luna said.