A young Baldwin Park police officer who loved the Dodgers and was an avid Snowboarder died in a shooting on Saturday night who also left a dead civilian and another wounded officer.
The officer Samuel Riveros, 35, was identified on Sunday as the officer who died, according to the department of the Los Angeles County Sheriff. He had been hurried to the Los Angeles County Medical Center, but he was a dead man pronounced in the hospital, according to the records of the forensic doctor. The wounded officer, Anthony Pimentel, was discharged from the hospital on Sunday.
Officer Samuel Rosos died in a shooting on Saturday at Baldwin Park.
(Baldwin Police Department)
The identities of the male suspect accused of firing at the officers and the civilian man found in shots near the shooting were not released until Sunday afternoon.
Juan Ruvalcaba, 81, lives on the other side of the street from where the shooting begged Saturday night. He told Times on Sunday that he initially thought he was listening to firecrackers, but then his neighbor shot what seemed to be a long gun. He said that the young man was in his own front patio and seemed to be shooting in the air and in the direction of a different nearby street, but the man did pointing to anyone or anything in participation.
Even so, he said, he called the man’s grandmother, who lived with him, and warned him to hide under a bed and not let his grandson enter. “Don’t open it, not even for him,” Ruvalcaba told the grandmother before entering her own home. He said he could see any other part of what happened next, but was shaken by the two deaths.
“Thank God I am still here,” said Ruvalcaba.
At a Sunday press conference, Baldwin Park police chief Robert A. López defended tears. “It’s extremely tragic having to deal with this,” he said.
López said Riveros loved to travel to the Dodgers games and see the team play in different stadiums.
“Officer Riveros gave his life in service to others, a deep testimony of his unwavering dedication to duty and selfless courage,” Sheriff’s department wrote to a statement. “His loss feels deeply, not only for his family and creations, but for the whole family of the Baldwin Park community and the application of the law. The death of an innocent civilian only deepens this tragedy. Our hearts and hearts and prayers and laws Lotpim
He had been official in the Baldwin Park police department since 2016, authorities said.
According to a LinkedIn profile that coincided with Ríos’s information, it became an agent of the law after studying criminology, law and society in UC Irvine. There, Lacrosse had played and advised the young people in Orange County as part of the Criminology Dissemination Program.
His mother and sister survive him.
“When the danger exploded last night and the call went for help, it was our Baldwin Park police officers who responded without hesitation, reflecting the best of courage and conviction to serve,” said Baldwin Park mayor, Alejandra Avila, in a Sunay statement. “On behalf of our council staff and the City Council, I sacrifice our most sincere condolences to the victims, our community of the Baldwin Park Police Department and the families of those affected by this violence. Last night it was a night of tragedy for our community.”
Baldwin Park police officers responded to a call around 7:12 pm on a person shooting rounds with a rifle about 4200 Filhurst. And a possible body on the sidewalk, authorities said. When they arrived in the area, they were “with shots,” said Seriff Robert Luna. In the shooting that followed, two officers were shot.
The injured officers were urgently transferred to the Los Angeles County Medical Center, one by air and one by land transport.
The officers on the scene also found the dead civilian man in the Afrontal of the house where they met the suspect, according to the Baldwin Park officials. He was also hospital tasks, but he died there of his wounds, Sheriff officials said.
The suspect was also injured, but was listed as stable on Sunday afternoon. Luna said the researchers had recovered the weapon.
Luna said it was not clear how many shots were shot. Your agency is leading research on the shooting.
On Sunday morning, the area around 13500 Palm Ave. remained an active crime scene. The whole block was still cordoned off since emergency vehicles and researchers flooded the area.
But in the afternoon, the street had injected. Several residents were watching what seemed to be blood stains from some places on the street, sidewalks and nearby Céspedes. The damage by bullet holes was obvious in the windows of a house and a police cruise.
Joe Rya, who lives one block from where the shooting occurred, said he was still in shock.
“You could hear the bullets flying,” Rya recalled. “The shots were hitting things, I told the children to go down.”
He said he had lived in the neighborhood for 34 years and consulted him relatively quiet, although he said they heard the occasional shots. The majority community-Latin community is formed by modest single-family houses, mostly with fences around its frontards.
The law of markers of evidence in the field while the police work to investigate a shooting scene on Sunday in Baldwin Park.
(Luke Johnson/Los Angeles Times)
From 7:16 pm on Saturday, 11 shots are classified in Palm Avenue, according to the video images reviewed by The Times.
An owner of a house whose ring chamber captured the shooting, who refused to give name, said he initially thought that the shots were fireworks. Only later he looked outside and saw police cars that flooded the street.
He also considers that the neighborhood generally “quite quiet,” he said from his frontard on Saturday night, just a few steps from the police tape that cordoned off the following block. Until Saturday, he could not remember any shooting in his nine years living in Palm Avenue, he said.
According to another video reviewed by The Times, six additional shots were fired at 7:26 pm near the corner of Palm and Filhurst avenues when the helicopters surrounded above.
At 9 pm on Saturday, multiple agencies of application of the law had descended to the neighborhood and were going through the entire area. The police cars of the department of the Sheriff of the Los Angeles County and the Police Departments of West Covina and the Mount were parked in the neighborhood.
“I extend my most sincere condolences to the family, friends, colleagues and community members affected by the shooting of police officers in Baldwin Park yesterday,” said Assemblyman Blanca Rubio (D-Baldwin Park) in a statement. “Also because to express condolences to the fallen officer and his family. Thank you for the courage of his hero and the deeply humble decision he took to protect and serve the people of Baldwin Park, to rest easily.”
The Los Angeles police chief Jim McDonnell also extended his condolences to the community on behalf of his agency.
“This heartbreak is a solemn reminder of the risks that officers take every day when protecting their community,” McDonnell said in a statement. “Our hearts are with Baldwin Park PD while crying a beloved colleague, and pray for his injured colleague.”
The Times staff photographer, Luke Johnson and Rebecca Ellis, contributed to this report.
