The Riverside County sheriff’s deputy who was shot and killed on Jan. 13 was honored Saturday morning at a funeral service the place he was remembered as an exceptionally sort and devoted public servant.
The black hearse that carried the casket of Deputy Darnell Calhoun wound its approach by means of a 50-mile path to the Considerable Residing Household Church in Rancho Cucamonga, as mourners lined the roads to pay their respects to the slain officer.
The 30-year-old deputy was shot whereas responding to an “unknown hassle” name at a residence within the unincorporated group of Lakeland Village, in line with the Sheriff’s Division. He was transported to a neighborhood hospital the place he later died, officers stated.
The suspect, 42-year-old Jesse Navarro, exchanged gunfire with a second officer who arrived on the scene, in line with officers. Final Saturday, Navarro was reported to be in vital situation.
Ancelin Armijo of Rancho Cucamonga salutes because the funeral procession for fallen Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy Darnell Calhoun, 30, passes by after his memorial service on the Considerable Residing Household Church on Saturday in Rancho Cucamonga. Armijo is within the Military.
(Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Occasions)
Calhoun’s demise shook the area people and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Division, which was nonetheless reeling from the demise of one other deputy, 32-year-old Isaiah Cordero, who was shot whereas making a visitors cease in Jurupa Valley two weeks earlier.
A portrait of Calhoun wearing his division’s officer’s uniform was displayed on the church stage close to his casket, draped in an American flag.
Church and police leaders recalled Calhoun as trustworthy and compelled by an ever-present sense of obligation.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco stated Calhoun usually expressed issues that he had not accomplished sufficient for somebody whereas responding to a name, and wished to know the way he might higher serve the folks he encountered.
“By all accounts, Deputy Calhoun exemplified what we would like our deputies to be: sturdy, sort, compassionate,” Bianco stated.
Calhoun spent two years with the San Diego Police Division earlier than he was employed by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Division in February 2022, a transfer he made as a result of he wished to shorten his commute and spend extra time together with his household, Bianco stated.
Calhoun leaves behind two younger youngsters and a widow pregnant with a 3rd youngster.
