The Los Angeles sheriff’s department and district attorney on Wednesday announced the arrest of a suspect in the shooting of two police officers earlier this month.
Deonte Murray, 36, was charged with two counts of attempted murder in the September 14 shooting of officers in L.A.’s Compton neighborhood, which was caught on surveillance footage. The officers, a 31-year-old mother and her patrol partner, a 24-year-old male, were treated at the hospital and have since been released.
Demonstrators called for the death of both officers outside the hospital shortly after the shooting. L.A. County sheriff Alex Villanueva compared the demonstrators to ISIS at the time, calling it “a new low for the hatred that I don't think anyone in this nation has ever seen before.”
Murray has previous convictions for drug and firearm-related offenses.
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