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Riverside County deputies kill 2 in shootout outside reservation

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Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times

A Riverside County sheriff's deputy asks tribal Chairman Robert Salgado to leave the crime scene at the reservation in the foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains. “There are better ways to solve these problems than by bringing in the 7th Calvary and wiping them out," Salgado said Tuesday. Deputies killed another member of the tribe in a gunfight last week.

Gunmen opened fire on guards in San Jacinto and later shot at a sheriff's helicopter and SWAT team members.
By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 13, 2008
Riverside County sheriff's deputies shot and killed two people Monday evening after a running gun battle in which the suspects opened fire on guards outside the entrance to a San Jacinto Indian reservation and shot at a sheriff's helicopter and SWAT team members.

The incident began about 6:20 p.m. when security guards for the Soboba Indian reservation reported to sheriff's dispatchers that they were taking fire.

 
They also said that a guard had been wounded.

Riverside County Sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez said investigators later determined that the guards were unhurt.

But they said their deputies were fired upon repeatedly by the suspects during an hourlong gun battle east of the Soboba Casino.

The gunfight included at least nine shots that the suspects fired at a sheriff's helicopter.

Deputies exchanged gunfire with the suspects as did SWAT team members, Gutierrez said.

The suspects were later pronounced dead.

andrew.blankstein

@latimes.com




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