A Utah man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy Monday night, and may have been involved in a killing hours earlier in Los Angeles, officials said Tuesday.
The deputy was identified Tuesday as Joseph Solano, a 13-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department, who was off duty and waiting for his meal at a Jack in the Box restaurant in Alhambra about 5:45 p.m. Monday when he was shot once in the head. He was taken to L.A. County-USC Medical Center, where he remained in critical condition as of Tuesday afternoon.