A 22-year-old Davis policeman is killed in the line of duty

A Davis police officer was shot dead Thursday night when he was responding to a road accident and authorities had cordoned off downtown neighborhoods while searching for a suspect.

Davis police told Natalie Corona, 22, that she had just finished. Training Academy, was fired around 7 pm after intervening in a car accident near 5th and D streets, and after being rushed to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

"She was a rising star in the department," Davis Chief of Police Darren Pytel said. Dark press conference just before midnight. "She just worked like you could not believe it."

The police searched near the scene of the shooting and surrounded a house nearby. Projectors had directed her towards the house and the police had ordered the occupants to get their hands up in the air. .

Shortly after 11:30 pm, the police turned off the lights and sent a robot, then exploded what appeared to be a flash. bang grenades.

There was no clear evidence of detaining a suspect, but police scheduled a press conference at headquarters that was to begin just before midnight.

"We are totally devastated by this loss," Pytel. said, adding that he had warned his parents.

Corona spent the training academy at the Sacramento Police Department in July 2018 and completed field training just before Christmas, said Pytel. She reacted alone to the scene of the accident, which, according to Pytel, was not unusual for a rookie agent.

"I did not see anyone work harder part-time and be more motivated than Natalie to be a police officer" Pytel, who joined the Davis Police Department in 1983, said Pytel. "She was an absolute star in the department and a person that virtually every member of the department considered a close friend, a sister."

Corona's father, Merced Corona, was a 26-year veteran of the sheriff's department of Colusa County, according to the Williams Pioneer Review, which chronicled the story of the swearing of her daughter in Davis County on August 2.

A Facebook page that seemed to belong to the agent killed showed a young woman smile dressed in a blue dress holding an American flag "dedicated to the police"

The page contains an article in which she wrote that she wanted the photo "serve as gratitude to all these men and women of the forces of the order. who have served, who are now serving, and those who have died in the exercise of their duties, protecting our liberties in this great country.

Comments offering prayers and thanks for his services were also posted on the Thursday and at the beginning of the day, Friday as Davis police were still searching for a suspect in his murder.

The suspect was described as "a white man in his early twenties, baseball cap, black jacket, jeans or blue, black tactical boots." [19659002] Heavily armed police w Thursday evening, law enforcement officers from all over the region rushed into the area, including two dozen of the sheriff's department of Sacramento.

Shortly after the shooting, UC Davis police tweeted a warning "on-the-spot shelter" and advised people to stay away from downtown Davis, and authorities issued mobile phone alerts and SMS to alert citizens.Caltrans has announced the closure of Richards Boulevard and Olive Drive since l & # 39; Interstate 80.

Late on Thursday, the on-site warning had been raised and the police had focused their attention on a house located in the Fifty Street block 500.

Pytel The sheriff's department of Sacramento reportedly conducted the shooting investigation.

The Davis Department is relatively small, with 61 sworn officers and 34 civilian personnel, and Davis Police spokesman, Lt Paul Doroshov, described it as a family.

An officer appeared at the department headquarters Thursday evening with a bouquet of flowers, but left after seeing the media rally inside.

The department's annual report for 2017 mentioned violence and property. the crimes had been decreasing steadily in recent years, a homicide having been reported in 2017 and none in 2016.

The Department did not have a police officer murdered in the d row In almost 60 years, when Douglas Cantrill was shot dead on September 7, 1959.

According to the previous story of Sacramento Bee, the 23-year-old police officer was found shot dead in his cruise ship along H Street. Cantrill arrested a man and a woman acting with suspicion at a neighbor's residence when a murderer had ensued and that the murderer had shot him with his service pistol. At the Yolo County Attorney's Office

Cantrill, who had served in the Davis Force for a month after two years spent in law enforcement, left a wife and a toddler, announced district prosecutor's office. His name is one of eleven listed on the memorial of the fallen soldiers of Yolo County, Woodland.