Deputy shot dead in Cypress Park
Members of the community place flowers and candles at the site of the shooting near Aragon Avenue and Thorpe Avenue in Cypress Park. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
An LAPD officer unreels crime scene tape near where Los Angeles County sheriffs deputy Juan Abel Escalante was shot and killed near his Cypress Park home. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Cypress Park residents pass LAPD officers securing the area where a sheriff’s deputy was killed in a drive-by shooting. The deputy and his family were living at his parents’ house, where he grew up, Sheriff Lee Baca said. He was in the process of buying a home in Pomona. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
LAPD officers disperse a crowd of onlookers along Cypress Avenue near the scene of the shooting. Police officers said Escalante was not in uniform at the time, but could not say how many shots were fired. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
An LAPD officer asks a resident to go into his home while the shooting is being investigated. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
