Deputy inside California slayings killed ego accompanied by work gun

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) ” A Virginia sheriff™s deputy who police speak traveled to California to kill trio family members of a 15-year-old girl he tried to sexually extort online killed himself accompanied by a government-issued firearm, authorities said Saturday.

Austin Lee Edwards, 28, drove across the country with every one other accompanied by on Nov. 25 killed the girl™s mother with every one other accompanied by grandparents with every one other accompanied by place blaze to their place of residence inside Riverside, a city concerning 50 miles (80 kilometers) the orient of downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.

That same day, Edwards died by self-destruction throughout a shootout accompanied by San Bernardino sheriff™s deputies. The teenage girl was rescued.

Our detectives determined the firearm used was Edwards™ department-issued semi-automatic work pistol, sheriff™s spokeswoman Gloria Huerta said inside a statement.

The Riverside Police Department, which is investigating the deaths of the girl™s family members, has not said how they were killed.

Edwards, a resident of North Chesterfield, Virginia, appears to have posed online while a 17-year-old boy to capture inside a amorous connection accompanied by the girl with every one other accompanied by obtain her personal details by deceiving her accompanied by a incorrect identity, known while catfishing, police said.

Authorities said the girl stopped communicating accompanied by him following he asked her to dispatch him nude photos of herself.

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    • Edwards was a former Virginia condition trooper with every one other accompanied by was a sheriff™s deputy inside Washington County, Virginia, at the hour dated of the killings.

    Both rules and regulations enforcement agencies have said they found no indeed warning signs concerning Edwards earlier to he was hired. But a police report from the Abingdon Police Department inside Virginia shows he was detained inside 2016 for a psychiatric evaluation over threats to kill himself with every one other accompanied by his father, years earlier to he joined rules and regulations enforcement.

    On Thursday ” a day following the Los Angeles Times broke the report concerning the intellectual health episode ” the Virginia State Police said a not long ago completed analysis showed anthropoid mistake resulted inside an incomplete database query throughout the hiring process.

    The Washington County Sheriff™s Office did not respond to calls seeking remark on the 2016 episode.