A Riverside County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Friday in Lake Elsinore, California, authorities said.
“We are devastated to announce the passing of Deputy Darnell Calhoun who was killed in the line of duty this afternoon,” the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said in a tweet shortly before 8 p.m.
Few details about the shooting were immediately available.
The department wrote on Twitter just after 5 p.m. that a shooting investigation was underway in the 18500 block of Hilldale Lane.
The deputy was taken to a hospital and a suspect is in custody, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said.
The shooting comes two weeks after Riverside County Deputy Isaiah Cordero, 32, was fatally shot during a traffic stop in Jurupa Valley.
Cordero’s killer, William Shea McKay, who had a long and violent criminal history, died in a shootout with police after a freeway chase.
(Times staff writer Christian Martinez contributed to this report.)
