A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy wounded 24 years ago when he was shot in the head during a traffic stop in Rowland Heights has died, it was announced Wednesday.
California Deputy Dies 24 Years After Being Shot in Head at Traffic Stop
Steven Belanger died Tuesday as a result of injuries he suffered in the December 1994 shooting, according to the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, the union representing the department's deputies.
February 8, 2018
Retired Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Steven Belanger died Tuesday as a result of being shot in the head at a traffic stop 24 years ago. (Photo: Los Angeles County SO)
Steven Belanger died Tuesday as a result of injuries he suffered in the December 1994 shooting, according to the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, the union representing the department's deputies.
Belanger was 29, a married father of a 1-year-old daughter and a seven-year LASD veteran when he was shot by a 20-year-old man on a skateboard, a bullet lodging in his brain, unable to be removed, according to ALADS and a Los Angeles Times article published in the weeks after the shooting.
"His retirement, ongoing health issues and ultimately his death ... were related to the shooting," according to an ALADS statement.
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