DOUBLE LODD: Two Police officers assisting CAL FIRE killed in Line of Duty

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

DOUBLE LODD: Two Police officers assisting CAL FIRE killed in Line of Duty

DOUBLE LODD-PSYCHO KILLS 2 POLICE OFFICERS ASSISTING IN SERVING A FIRE SERVICES/ARSON WARRANT IN CALIFORNIA

OFFICER BEJAR

OFFICER WAHLENMAIER

Monday, March 1, 2010

- A second Fresno County law enforcement officer has died after being shot last week by a psycho, barricaded arsonist. At 0530 hours this morning the family allowed doctors to remove the life support that had sustained Reedley Police Officer Javier Bejar since he was shot Thursday.

Now, law enforcement agencies in Fresno County are planning funerals for two decorated veterans who died when a paranoid security guard / suspected arsonist with an arsenal of weapons who said he preferred death to prison and would take officers with him if necessary.
Officer Bejar, 28, joined the rural department in 2005 and served a tour of duty in Iraq after rising through the ranks as a teenage police Explorer Scout.

Authorities said he was shot with a high-powered rifle from 80 yards away by Rick "Ricky" Ray Liles, 51, as Bejar crouched behind his patrol car to back up sheriff's deputies and CalFIRE Investigators serving a search warrant on Liles at his mobile home in the village of Minkler. Liles died during the shootout, likely taking his own life with a gunshot to the head.

Fresno County sheriff's detective Joel Wahlenmaier, 49, was also killed in the Line of Duty trying to serve the warrant with a CalFIRE Arson Investigators and backup from other officers. Liles apparently fired the AR-15 rifle through the front door of his trailer when officers tried to serve him with the warrant. Deputy Mark Harris suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Our sincere condolences to all affected.

Article from firefighterclosecalls.com - Link

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010