Fallen Davis police Officer Natalie Corona uploaded this photo in October 2016 to honor those working in law enforcement, including “those who have died in the line of duty protecting our liberties in this great country.” Last week she became one of those people. This photo has been shared 8,000 times.
When officers are attacked The same week that Natalie Corona was killed in the line of duty, another police officer almost met a similar fate by Raheem F. hosseini
Four days before Davis police Officer Natalie Corona was gunned down during a routine traffic incident by someone who shouldn’t have had access to a firearm, a Sacramento police officer came within a clicking trigger of a potentially similar fate. The Sacramento Police Department declined to release the officer’s name 6 | SN&R | 01.17.19
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or time on the force, but did provide video of the January 6 incident, which captured just how quickly a typical traffic stop can escalate into law enforcement’s worst fear—and conveyed how long 90 seconds can feel when you’re wrestling with someone who may be trying to kill you.
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A DreAm cut shOrt By many accounts, Corona was living her dream on January 10 when the 22-year-old responded to a three-car collision in the small college town where she had gone from an exuberant volunteer to a fully sworn officer. Kevin Douglas Limbaugh, the man who authorities say ended that dream, reportedly rode up to the scene on a bicycle and shot Corona through the neck with a semiautomatic pistol. He then fired several more rounds, including at Corona, before disappearing into the chaos. Firefighters already on scene for the accident aided the fallen officer not far from their bullet-struck engine, said department spokesman Lt. Paul Doroshov. Corona was rushed to UC Davis Medical Center, where she died. “Despite the life-saving efforts of everyone involved, she didn’t make it,” Doroshov told reporters on Friday. The unprovoked attack prompted calls for residents to shelter in place and a multiagency manhunt that ended when the suspect was found dead from an
apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. In the days since, some troubling details have emerged about Limbaugh and the damage he wrought. As The Sacramento Bee reported, the 48-year-old Limbaugh had been ordered to surrender an AR15 rifle following a misdemeanor conviction related to a fight he had last fall with a coworker at Cache Creek Casino. The Bee reported that Limbaugh agreed to surrender the rifle in November. Online Yolo Superior Court records show a bench warrant was issued for Limbaugh on December 26, though it doesn’t specify for what or whether it was resolved. A previous bench warrant in the assault case was recalled in November. Two semiautomatic handguns were recovered at the rental home where Limbaugh lived and where he was found dead after the shooting. Inside the rental, authorities also found a brief note, signed by a “Citizen Kevin Limbaugh,” in which the suspect apparently blamed the Davis Police Department for afflicting him “with ultra sonic waves meant to keep dogs from barking.”