SOUTH EL MONTE, Calif.—A woman is in custody Jan. 20 after striking a sheriff’s deputy and a man with a vehicle and fleeing the scene, detectives say.
Deputies from the Temple Station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded at 11:10 p.m. on Jan. 19 to a parking lot of a business shopping center in the 9600 block of Garvey Avenue, where they saw a man and a woman in an altercation, said Deputy Miguel Meza of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
As the deputies detained the man, the woman, believed to be in her 30s, got into a vehicle, conducted a U-turn, and intentionally drove toward the deputies and the man, Meza said.
The woman collided with a patrol vehicle, struck one deputy and the man, believed to be in his 50s, and led deputies on a chase. At some point during the pursuit, her vehicle became disabled and deputies arrested her.
The man who deputies had detained was pronounced dead at the scene, Meza said.
The deputy that was struck by the suspect was transported to a local hospital where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries and later released.
