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 Marcelo Marquez, 34, and a female companion, who were described on
Twitter by the California Highway Patrol as armed and dangerous,
were taken into custody, police said.
The incident began on Friday morning in the parking lot of a Motel 6
when a deputy, later identified as Danny Oliver, 47, approached a
vehicle considered to be suspicious, said Sacramento County Sheriff
Lieutenant R.L. Davis.
Someone inside the car fired multiple rounds at Oliver, who was
struck in the chest. On Friday afternoon, Sacramento Sheriff Scott
Jones said that Oliver had died of his wounds at the University of
California, Davis, Medical Center in Sacramento.
"We grieve as a family," Jones told a news conference. He said that
Oliver, a 15-year veteran of the force, left behind a wife and two
daughters.
 After shooting Oliver, the car's occupants then carjacked a vehicle
nearby, shooting the man who was at the wheel before fleeing, Davis
said. Police initially said that the civilian who was carjacked was
a woman.
They then stole a third vehicle, a 2002 red Ford F-150 pickup truck,
and are believed to have crossed into neighboring Placer County,
shooting two sheriff's deputies there, Davis said.
One of the deputies, 42-year-old Michael David Davis Jr., later
died, said Placer County Sheriff Edward Bonner at a news conference.
Davis was a 15-year veteran with the department and died 26 years to
the day after his father and namesake, Michael David Davis, was
killed while on duty as a sheriff's deputy in southern California,
Bonner said.
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The female suspect was taken into custody earlier on Friday
afternoon, the Sacramento Bee reported. The Sacramento County
Sheriff's Department confirmed that she was "with law enforcement,"
but said it was not clear whether she was still viewed as a suspect.
Marquez was taken into custody around 4 p.m. local time after he was
found hiding in a suburban home, the Placer County Sheriff's
Department said. Businesses in the town of Auburn, where the man
fled, were put on lockdown for much of Friday afternoon.
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; Additional reporting by Curtis
Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Sandra Maler, Eric Beech and
Michael Perry)
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