BAKERSFIELD (CBSLA/AP) – A man wanted for shooting and killing a police officer in Northern California Wednesday has been captured in the Bakersfield area, according to a report.
The Modesto Bee newspaper reported Friday that the suspect in the slaying of 33-year-old Newman Police Cpl. Ronil Singh was caught either Thursday night or Friday morning. No further details were confirmed.
Surveillance photos of the suspect wanted for shooting and killing a police officer during a traffic stop in Newman, Calif. Dec. 26, 2018. (Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department)
The suspect was not immediately identified. The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department was scheduled to hold a press conference at noon, the Bee reports.
Singh was shot just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, a few minutes after radioing in that he was pulling over a gray pickup truck that had no license plate in Newman, a town of about 10,000 people some 85 miles east of San Jose.
Singh was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A truck believed to have been the one stopped by Singh was later found in a garage in a mobile home park about four miles from the shooting.
Singh was a native of Fiji and the father of an infant son. He joined the Newman police force in 2011. Earlier in his career, Ronil Singh worked as a deputy with the Merced County Sheriff’s Department.
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