SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal authorities say a man suspected of killing two deputies during a shooting rampage in Northern California was deported twice and has a drug conviction.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said Saturday fingerprints of the suspected shooter confirm he was first deported to Mexico in 1997 after being convicted in Arizona for drug possession. He was arrested and repatriated to Mexico again in 2001.
Sacramento County sheriff’s authorities said the suspect in a Friday rampage identified himself as 34-year-old Marcelo Marquez of Salt Lake City. However, federal officials say his fingerprints match the biometric records for a Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte.
The suspect’s wife, Janelle Marquez Monroy, is in custody following the shooting rampage that left two deputies dead and two others victims wounded.
More than 100 law enforcement officers responded without being asked after hearing that one of their own had been killed, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said Saturday.
Federal, state and local officers eventually swarmed six crime scenes across a 30-mile region encompassing two counties, Placer County sheriff’s spokeswoman Dena Erwin said.
“It was an amazing response,” Erwin said.
All of the officers will be questioned as part of the complex, ongoing investigation into Friday’s attack that ended after two deputies were dead and two other people were wounded.
The shootings began when Sacramento County sheriff’s Deputy Danny Oliver, 47, was shot in the forehead with an assault rifle at close range as he checked out a suspicious car in a motel parking lot.
After Oliver was killed, the gunman shot Anthony Holmes, 38, of Sacramento at least twice, including once in the head, during an attempted carjacking. He was in fair condition.
The attackers then stole a pickup and fled about 30 miles northeast into Placer County, where two deputies who approached the pickup while it was parked alongside a road were shot with an AR-15-type weapon and never had a chance to return fire, Erwin said.
Homicide Detective Michael David Davis Jr., 42, died at a hospital 26 years to the day after his father died in the line of duty as a Riverside County deputy.
