Published December 27. 2018 02:45PM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities throughout California were hunting the man suspected of killing a policeman during a traffic stop in a small Central Valley town.
Police agencies in and out of California were alerted to watch for the heavyset, chain-wearing suspect in Wednesday’s slaying of 33-year-old Cpl. Ronil Singh, Stanislaus County sheriff’s Sgt. Tom Letras said.
The public was asked for information about his identity and the California Highway Patrol warned that he was considered armed and dangerous.
Singh was shot a few minutes after radioing in that he was pulling over a gray pickup truck that had no license plate in Newman, a town of about 10,000 people some 100 miles southeast of San Francisco.
Singh was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Newman Police officer Ronil Singh was killed by an unidentified suspect Wednesday. The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department said Singh was conducting a traffic stop in Newman, California when he called out “shots fired” over his radio. STANISLAUS COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT VIA AP