ALTURAS, Calif. (AP) – A deputy responding to a disturbance call in Northern California has been shot to death – the state’s fourth law enforcement officer to die in the line of duty in just two weeks.
Sheriff’s deputies were dealing with the report on County Road 115, in a rural area near the Oregon border, when deputy Jack Hopkins, 31, was fatally shot. A suspect was detained shortly after, the sheriff’s office said.
Hopkins joined the force last year, the office said.
A video posted late Wednesday to the Modoc County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page showed about two dozen patrol cars with their emergency lights on riding down a town’s street. The video was titled “Deputy Jack Hopkins Procession.”
The Shasta, Siskiyou, Lassen and Butte County Sheriff’s Offices and the California Highway Patrol are investigating the shooting, the office said.