Posted on 11/13/2016 9:12:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Stanislaus County sheriff's deputy was shot and killed at point-blank range while in the line of duty Sunday, police said.
Sheriff Adam Christianson said that a Dep. Dennis Wallace, a 20-year veteran of the force, was shot twice in the head around 8:30 a.m. while investigating a suspicious person and vehicle near a fishing access in Hughson, a city roughly 10 miles outside of Modesto.
"He was executed," Christianson said. "We believe that Dep. Wallace was killed outside of the car and we know for a fact that the gun used in this crime was in direct contact with his head when the trigger was pulled twice."
The suspect, who has been identified as 37-year-old David Machado, fled the scene and carjacked an escape vehicle in the nearby city of Ceres, Christianson said. Machado was later apprehended in Tulare County and brought into custody by police Sunday afternoon.
Before being captured, police said Machado committed an armed robbery at a convenience store in the city of Lindsay. He tried to swipe a woman's purse, but she was able to resist and alert police.
Machado fled the scene on foot, but law enforcement officers were able to track him down and detain him just after 12:30 p.m. without any problems. \ Lindsay officers didn't initially recognize Machado as the suspect in the killing of Wallace. But once he was in custody, they identified him through tattoos and a photograph and immediately contacted the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department, Christianson said.
Despite the capture, Christianson was visibly upset to report another officer's death.
"It's time to stand united," he said. "It's time to stand together with public safety and with law enforcement to stop what's happening in our nation."
Wallace, 53, dedicated some of his time with the police force to working with early intervention, prevention and education programs. He leaves behind a wife and family, Christianson said. "(Wallace) had a very special relationship with young people and a special place in our hearts at the sheriff's office," Christianson said. "We need to keep the Wallace family in our thought and prayers. We need to keep law enforcement in our thoughts and prayers."
Wallace lived and worked in Hughson, where he was involved in youth soccer, refereeing football and serving as a liaison between schools and law enforcement.
Wallace is the fifth law enforcement officer in California to die in the line of duty in the last five weeks. The slaying comes after a deputy in Modoc County was killed while responding to a call about a disturbance, two Palm Springs police officers were shot to death during a domestic disturbance call and a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant was shot and killed in the high-desert town of Lancaster while answering a burglary call.
Thinking and praying for our friends at Stanislaus County Sheriff on the loss of Deputy Dennis Wallace. @StanSheriff#neverforgetpic.twitter.com/fYghGd5l4E
Our prayers are with @StanSheriff and the friends and family of fallen Deputy Dennis Wallace. pic.twitter.com/fiN5gNVTIv
Machado-is that a European Sir name? /S
Prayers to this officer’s family, friends and department.
And...Machado? Any relation to the beauty queen? Interesting...
Just another illegal alien scum bag the left wants to keep here out of love
Prayers for this officer and his family.
David Machado- a Dreamer.
And Soros.
Not just the Left, and ‘out of love’ sounds Bushido to me.
This has to stop. Law enforcement has become excessively heavy handed over the past decade or so, but this is an absolute outrage. The perpetrators must be identified and dealt with, in a manner to discourage any imitation.
If BLM ever gets the war they want, there won’t be enough of them to go around to everyone who wants one.
>> Law enforcement has become excessively heavy handed over the past decade or so
That’s a bogus generalization.
Excluding the corner cases, LEOs have necessarily adapted to the agitation.
When asked what he thought about this latest killing of a police officer, Pres. Obama said, “Yes we did”.
#BLM. BLM wants a different kind of war.
Another ambush. California is up to one a week. What are we up to nationally? One a day? Two?
We truly have become a lawless society.
And where is Obama? Congratulating BLM for their ‘hard work’.
Prayers up for the Deputy and his family, both blood and blue.
WTF are you talking about?
A nice slow painful death at the hands of the police should be his sentence.
I just had a justified thought. Tie fishing line to the three ends of his mustachios, and take up any slack and tightly rap the loose ends around his gonads with clove hitches.
Send him down rage and shoot him in the foot.
Voila, an instant hopping target!
Open fire with .22 cal at 100 yards, aim for extremities.
Video all of it.
Noting like a little deterrence.
Checked this morning. Perp was wanted on an outstanding felony warrant, but no info on what the felony was. No info on the perp at all.
Ah, I see your distinction. Yes, #BLM.
Curious that all this sort of activity came to an abrupt halt for something like six weeks when it could have hurt Hillary but now it is back on again...
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