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The three members had assisted local police following the
discovery on Thursday of grenades at an apartment complex in
Santa Monica.
Meanwhile, as detectives chase leads into the origins of the
grenades following the deadly blast at the Biscailuz Training
Facility, investigators served a search warrant Monday morning
at an address in the Marina del Rey neighborhood. The department
didn't say what, if anything, was found.
It was not known whether the grenades had any connection to the
military. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
spokesperson Nicole Nishida said investigators were looking at
all leads.
The deaths early Friday marked the department’s worst loss of
life in a single incident since 1857, when four officers were
killed by gunfire, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said.
The department identified the deputies who died as Detective
Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Detective Victor Lemus and Detective
William Osborn. They served 19, 22 and 33 years in the
department respectively, Luna said.
Luna said Friday that it took more than four hours to render the
scene safe and the deaths were being investigated by the
department’s homicide detectives, with the assistance of the FBI
and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. No
one else was injured, he said.
The sheriff said the arson and explosives team undergoes
in-depth training and responds to more than 1,000 calls a year.
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