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| Corrections officer killed in shooting |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/24/2004 |
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A California prison officer was shot and mortally wounded in a confrontation with a sheriff's deputy after a night of heavy drinking by the officer and a neighbor, authorities said Saturday. The Sacramento County coroner's office identified the dead man as Miles Woodford, 44. Woodford, an officer at Solano State Prison in Vacaville, was shot twice when he pointed a pistol at a female deputy who went to his home in response to two 911 calls, authorities said. "It's just a tragic event," said Sgt. Lou Fatur, a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. "It's very difficult discussing one officer having to defend herself against another apparent officer who knows of law enforcement procedure." Fatur said two deputies, a man and a woman, went to Woodford's home in the Sacramento suburb of Rio Linda early Saturday morning in response to the 911 calls and saw a man walking away from the house with a bottle of liquor in his hand. The male officer placed the man, who was identified as Woodford's neighbor, in the patrol car and the female deputy went up to the house. As the female officer was talking to a woman Fatur identified as a friend of Woodford, the deputy saw an armed man come around the side of the house and point a handgun in her direction, Fatur said. "She says, 'Drop the gun. Drop the gun,"' Fatur said. "He advances on her. She fires on him. He goes down." Woodford was hit twice, in the stomach and the arm, and died later at Mercy San Juan Hospital, authorities said. |
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