Compton deputy shooting: New photos show female deputy recovering in hospital from ambush

Monday, September 21, 2020
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- We're getting our first look at a female sheriff's deputy recovering in a hospital after an ambush shooting in Compton.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department tweeted pictures showing the 31-year-old mother of one with her husband at her bedside.
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President Donald Trump spoke to her by telephone, promising that the shooter will be arrested.

She was shot in the jaw.

A male deputy also shot in the attack has been released from the hospital.

The names of the two deputies have not been released.
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A reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction has grown to $640,000.



A GoFundMe page set up for the two deputies has raised more than $700,000. The page, started by sheriff's detective Keegan McInnis, can be found here. An additional fund started by the deputies union is also raising funds.

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