California rookie officer Natalie Corona fatally shot responding to crash

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DAVIS, Calif. – A police officer who had been on the job only a few weeks was shot and killed by a suspect who opened fire as she was investigating a three-car crash, authorities in Northern California said.

The suspect, who has not been identified, was later found dead inside a Davis, California, home with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Davis Police Department said.

Police officials said Officer Natalie Corona, 22, was shot after responding alone to a traffic accident shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday in the city west of Sacramento. Corona was taken to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, where she later died.

Police have not determined what prompted the attack.

Following the shooting, police issued a citywide shelter in place order as officers from throughout the region searched for the suspect.

Police spent hours trying to coax the suspect out of a home about a block from the shooting scene, using floodlights and commands on loudspeakers for him to emerge with his hands up. At one point they sent in a robot and ignited flash bang grenades, the Sacramento Bee reported.

Officials announced early Friday he had been found dead inside.

Corona, whose father spent 26 years as a Colusa County Sheriff’s deputy, graduated from the Sacramento Police Department’s training academy in July and completed her field training just before Christmas, officials said.

She was the first Davis officer killed in the line of duty in six decades.

“She was a rising star in the department,” Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said. “She just worked like you can’t believe.”

Before she entered the academy, the Davis Police Department ran out of funding for the paid position she had been in. She didn’t care; she showed up to work as a volunteer, Pytel said.

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[Teh One Who Knocks]

Not sure why anyone becomes a cop anymore. :rip:

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That's 4 in the line of duty in 2019 already, plus a 5th that was gunned down in her home as she got ready for her patrol shift.

[DemonGeminiX]

:rip:

Californians better wake up too. I know it's too much to hope for, and saying it here is just preaching to the choir, but...

[Hal-9000]

Killed someone because of a car accident and maybe past warrants :(

Coward killed himself because he knew what the other cops would probably do to him.

What a horrible waste.

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That's 4 in the line of duty in 2019 already, plus a 5th that was gunned down in her home as she got ready for her patrol shift.

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148 last year, plus 27 K9

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By Todd Starnes | Fox News


In 2016 Natalie Corona posed for a series of stunning pictures taken by California photographer Rich Laus. The photographs, which she later posted on Facebook, showed the young woman wearing a royal blue gown and holding a Thin Blue Line flag.

“I would like this photograph to serve as my gratitude for all of those law enforcement men and women who have served, who are currently serving, and those who have died in the line of duty protecting our liberties in this great country,” she wrote on her Facebook page.

Tragically, her message was prophetic.

On Jan. 11, Davis police officer Natalie Corona was gunned down while responding to a car crash. She was 22 years old, described as a rising star in the police department.

And many people across the nation have embraced the photograph of Corona holding the Thin Blue Line flag as a way to honor and memorialize the fallen officer.

However, a group of students at the University of California, Davis contend the photograph is racist and they are demanding that people cease and desist circulating the image.

“The flag is blatantly anti-Black and disrespectful,” the Associated Students, UC-Davis Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission wrote on its now-deleted Facebook page.

“We see it necessary to call-out all community members who continue to post and disseminate images of the Blue Lives Matter flag online,” they wrote. “We would like to directly address that this flag represents an attempt by law enforcement to undermine the Black Lives Matter movement.”

The Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission also offered to provide help for students “triggered by this event and the circulating images of a flag that has been popularized by the ‘Blue Lives Matter’ crowd.”

“Flashing lights, sirens and increased police presence can be triggering to many Black and Brown people,” they wrote.

The slander and smears perpetrated by the feeble-minded, social justice snowflakes at UC Davis must be addressed.

The Thin Blue Line flag does not stand for racism or bigotry. It stands for the sacrifice that American law enforcement officers make every single day.

Fortunately, there are some students on campus who were bold enough to call out and condemn the organization’s sick and twisted statements.

“I wholeheartedly condemn the Ethnic and Cultural Affairs commission for this disgusting post,” wrote Michael Gofman, the president of the Associated Students, UC-Davis. “It’s easy to sit on the third floor of the Memorial Union where there are at least 100 brave men and women in blue between you and the shooter. It is easy to argue hypotheticals, politics, and ideology when you’re in safety.”

“I am ashamed that some of these same people, protected by the very officers that they are condemning, have the audacity to politicize the loss of a young officer. Her only crime was being a police officer,” Gofman wrote on his Facebook page.

The university’s social media pages have been inundated with messages of outrage from citizens and law enforcement officers from around the nation.

“You are an intolerant hate group that needs to be disbanded,” one writer posted. “Sad state of affairs when you condemn a police officer who died in the line of duty protecting YOUR community.”

I reached out to the university for an official comment and explanation, but they did not return my messages.

California taxpayers should be repulsed by the notion that their hard-earned money is being used to prop up anti-police bigots like the Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission.

And one more thing, if you are triggered by flashing lights or the presence of a police officer, remember who comes to your aid when you are in danger - whether you respect them or not.

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One point of clarification on this story. I had assumed that it was involving the car accident, someone with a warrant or whatever trying to evade. But it was not.

The gunman was NOT part of the car accident. He approached on a bicycle and unloaded his clip. It was an execution.


The man, later identified by authorities as 48-year-old Kevin Douglas Limbaugh, approached Corona on a bicycle and opened fire, Pytel said — shooting the promising officer as he unloaded his entire magazine.

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Two more over the weekend.

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[Hal-9000]

One point of clarification on this story. I had assumed that it was involving the car accident, someone with a warrant or whatever trying to evade. But it was not.

The gunman was NOT part of the car accident. He approached on a bicycle and unloaded his clip. It was an execution.

Christ