![]() ![]() Two officers - 31-year-old Claudia Apolinar and her 24-year-old male partner - were shot multiple times as they sat inside their patrol car outside the Metro Blue Line station at Willowbrook Avenue and Oak Street. Published: 18:27 BST, 30 September 2020 | Updated: 22:58 BST, 30 September 2020Ī man, 36, has been charged with attempted murder in the ambush shooting of two Compton police officers earlier this month, two weeks after he was involved in an armed standoff with cops over an alleged carjacking.ĭeonte Lee Murray, 36, was charged Wednesday with two counts each of willful, deliberate and premeditated attempted murder of a peace officer and possession of a firearm by a felon after he allegedly walked up to a police cruiser and shot the two deputies multiple times on September 12. Murray pleaded not guilty in his arraignment Wednesday and will appear back in court on November 17.The black Mercedes Benz the gunman used to flee from the shooting of the two deputies is also allegedly the same vehicle stolen in the September 1 carjacking.The sheriff's department said a gun discarded by Murray during the September 15 incident was the same one used to shoot the two cops.Police confirmed Wednesday the two incidents were related.Villanueva at the time denied his arrest was also connected to the cop ambush.Cops said he was arrested over an armed carjacking on September 1 where a male victim, 51, was shot in the leg and his car stolen. ![]() Murray was first arrested back on September 15 in Lynwood after a huge eight-hour armed standoff involving an LA SWAT team.Authorities said Murray 'hates police officers and wants them dead'.LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva and DA Jackie Lacey said Wednesday the suspected gunman was in police custody and they believe he acted alone.The cops were shot multiple times as they sat inside their patrol car outside the Metro Blue Line station at Willowbrook Avenue and Oak Street.Murray allegedly shot two deputies in the Compton attack on September 12.Deonte Lee Murray, 36, was charged with two counts each of attempted murder of a peace officer and possession of a firearm by a felon.Man is arrested and charged with attempted murder in the ambush shooting of two Compton police officers ![]()
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