Posted on 11/08/2014 5:50:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
A U.S. Border Patrol Agent has been arrested in connection to a fatal shooting in East Hemet Saturday.
Riverside County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon around 12:47 p.m. in the 41100 block of Toledo Drive in the unincorporated community.
Adam Thomas, 27, of Moreno Valley, was found at the scene suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to Deputy Patty Stoyer. Thomas was transported to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Investigators believe the suspect confronted the victim at a nearby residence and an argument ensued that resulted in the shooting.
John Demery, 40, of Hemet, was arrested following an investigation led by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’s Central Homicide Unit.
“A U.S. Border Patrol Agent assigned to the San Diego Sector Newton-Azrak Station in Murrieta was involved in an off-duty shooting incident that resulted in the death of an individual,” U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials stated in a press release. “The San Diego Sector has suspended the agent’s law enforcement authority and placed the agent on administrative leave pending developments in the investigation.”
Demery was booked at the Southwest Detention Center, Stoyer said.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department asks that anyone with information regarding the investigation contacts Investigator Moody of the Central Homicide Unit at (760) 393-3525 or Investigator Porrazzo from the Hemet Station at (951) 791-3425.
Anonymous tips may also be submitted using the Sheriff’s Homicide Tipline online form.
Wonder what the side story is. Article says there was a confrontation, but not what it might have been about.
1 a woman
2 money
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