OFFICER DARNELL CALHOUN

BADGE 6901, ID 8860

SDPD 09/05/2019 - 02/22/2022

06/24/1992 - 01/13/2023

FORMER SDPD OFFICER KILLED

A Riverside County sheriff's deputy was fatally shot during a confrontation with a domestic violence suspect this afternoon at a Lakeland Village home, the department's second deputy killed in the line of duty in just over two weeks.

“We are devastated to announce the passing of Deputy Darnell Calhoun who was killed in the line of duty this afternoon,'' the sheriff's department announced on its Twitter page just before 8 p.m.

Sheriff's officials said earlier a suspect was in custody.

“I should not have to be here tonight,'' Sheriff Chad Bianco said at a 9 p.m. news conference outside Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar where Calhoun died.

Bianco described Calhoun as a "husband, a son and would have been a dad."

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