LOS ANGELES — An off-duty Colton police officer died Thursday after accidentally shooting himself, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said.
The officer, identified as Lorenzo Morgan, contacted dispatchers sometime before 2:46 p.m. and told them he had accidentally shot himself and was on the side of the road in his vehicle on National Trails Highway in Oro Grande.
San Bernardino County deputies responded to the scene and found Morgan with a gunshot to a “lower extremity,” the department said.
