July 18, 2025 • 45 mins
Tim Conway Jr. continues heartfelt coverage as the emotional procession for the fallen L.A. County Sheriff's Deputies unfolds live across Los Angeles. Listeners are guided moment-by-moment through the somber journey from the regional training center to the medical examiner’s office in East L.A.—a scene of profound grief and unprecedented tragedy not witnessed since 1857. As the city mourns, Tim reflects on the significance of this historic loss and begins to explore the difficult q
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
So we're waiting for the procession to begin with these,
with the three bodies of the deputies that would be
taken to downtown Los Angeles to the Medical Examiner's office,
and as soon as that begins, we'll have that for you.
But let me play the timeline again. If you're just
tuning in, you're just getting into LA. You've flown into lax.
(00:30):
Perhaps you're just waking up. You worked all night. Three
deputies were killed this morning in an explosion, all member
of the Sheriff's Enforcement Bureau, and they have a tremendous
amount of experience nineteen years, twenty two years, thirty three years.
It happened around seven thirty this morning. There's a couple
of stories going around. It might have been a pipe bomb,
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it may have been a hand grenade. Either way, we'll
have that information for immediately when it's confirmed. The procession
will begin at any moment, and it'll be carried live
on television and on Channel two, four, five, seven, nine eleven,
and we will have that for you and carry it
live as well. Here on KFI. Here is a timeline
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of what happened today. They sort of catch you up
and put it all in about two minutes. Here of
how things happened and when things happen on this tragic
boarding here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
The FBI and ATF now investigating the deadly explosion at
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department training facility in.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
East Lamater to Next four and Wonder Avenue.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It happened in a parking lot filled with Sheriff's patrol
cars and box trucks, the blast killing three deputies members
of the Sheriff's bomb Squad.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
It appears La County sheriff Deputies from the bomb Squad,
we're pulling something on a cart.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
That's what it looks like to us.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
There was an explosion.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Preliminary and information indicates deputies removing an unexploded ordinance recently
recovered from a bomb call. According to two law enforcement sources.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
This is unfortunately, the largest loss of life for US
as the La County Sheriff's Department since eighteen fifty seven.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Firefighters rushing onto the scene the LAPD Bomb Squad called
into help Sheriff's Holicide detectives there to investigate.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
There's a lot more that we don't know than what
we do know. There is no threat to this community.
This is an isolated incident.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
LA Sheriff Robert Luna says the deputies had years of
experience working with explosives.
Speaker 8 (02:36):
Between all three sworn members, they had served our community
proudly for seventy four years. I have met with two
of the three families thus far, and as you can imagine,
those were extremely challenging conversations.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Last year, neighboring Orange County, sixteen members of the Sheriff's
Department's swap team were hospitalized after an explosion during an
indoor training exercise there. California's governor and LA's mayor are
in contact with the LA Shared's Department as investigators work
to determine what caused this deadly explosion.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Okay, so that's sort of a timeline of what happened.
And now Alex Stone, who comes on with us very
quite often, maybe two sometimes three times a week, he
did a terrific piece on putting everything together. And this
was about twenty five minutes ago or so.
Speaker 9 (03:28):
Alex, you've been talking to your sources. I know this
is going to be a deep investigation. It's hard to look.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, the procession is beginning here and we'll take this live.
There's three white fans with three coffins that are draped
with American flags.
Speaker 10 (03:43):
Channel eleven is on it. We'll take this audio here.
Speaker 11 (03:47):
Information not all.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Of the families at that point even have been notified.
Next to Ken hadn't been notified, right.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
So we really don't know exactly what they were holding,
why they were holding, how this happened, and we have
not seen any sort of video or anything of this.
So there's a lot of questions on how exactly that happened.
But with the you know, that doesn't really matter that
much to the family members who have lost their loved
one tonight and are now, you know, sort of shocked
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and we're not expecting this. And a reminder really for
anybody in law enforcement that you know, any day, you know,
this could happen. This is the nightmare for law enforcement. Obviously,
something like this doesn't happen that often, and certainly at
this scale of the department, and hasn't happened since before
Abraham Lincoln was elected president. So that gives you some
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perspective that This is not a common thing, but it
is just devastating, and it's also devastating not only the
entire department, but the special speciality to be able to
do this kind of work. To lose three people that
do it all at the same time really hurts the
department and their readiness to be with situations like this.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Yes, this particular facility, this guy loose, regional training facility.
It serves the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau and the arsen
Explosives Detail, which we heard the sheriff say these three
deputies were part of the Arson explosive detail, the best
of the best. I'll reiterate the years of service seventy
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four years of combined service, thirty three years for one,
twenty two years for another, and nineteen years for the third.
And those bodies have been loaded into the vans and
now the procession will formally begin momentarily. We will continue
to follow that live here on Fox eleven. So once
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that begins, we will show you that again, it's not
that long of a route. We also do have a
reporter standing by about what this could be linked to,
because the big question remains of what caused the explosion.
There are are some There is some speculation, there is
some reporting that we will get to that this could
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be linked to a Santa Monica apartment complex where grenades
were where grenades were found yesterday and a bomb squad
was called in. So Laura Diaz, she is working that
angle of the story. We will get to that eventually,
but in the meantime, we do want to stick live
with our picture from SKYFOWKX as the procession is set
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to get underway.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, it's pretty, uh, stunning and remarkable. We have we have,
of course observed processions similar to this, unfortunately many times
over the years. But to see three vehicles together, uh.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, he's got a great point. I've never seen that before.
I've never seen that white vans like that and side
by side, and then you see a couple hundred deputies
there and there's a there's a wide shot of where
they're going to be taken. It's not very far. It's
just a couple of miles up the ten freeway. And
as this goes on, you'll see freeway on ramps and
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off ramps closed to see the fire department. They will
bring their hooking ladders up and then drape a wire
across the street and hanging a huge American flag, and
I've already seen.
Speaker 10 (07:18):
Three or four of those.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You'll see the ten Freeway will be packed with people
paying their respects, standing on the overpasses and watching as
the procession moves from East Los Angeles West towards the
Medical Examiner's Office. Right now, what we're seeing on TV
is all the deputies getting in their cars on their motorcycles.
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A lot of the of the white unmarked cars are there,
A lot of the black and whites that the sheriffs
drive around in the I don't believe it looks like
the SWAT van there. Although I don't believe they call
the deputy or the LA Sheriff's Department. I think they
refer to it as the Sheriff's Enforcement BUREAUM.
Speaker 10 (08:05):
I don't think they use uh swat.
Speaker 12 (08:07):
That's interesting when they loaded them into the van and
then I thought, why aren't they going? And then I
realized exactly what you were saying. All of the deputies
were lined up on both sides of the street as
they put the coffins into the vans. And now all
those deputies are going to their cars to be able
to take part in the procession.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, and and Krozier, I don't know how this works,
because you know, the the Sheriff's department is responsible for
the entire county and so I don't know, you know,
how they cover those positions that are going to be
vacated for the next hour or so.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
That is a lot of cars that are lined up
for huge a lot of vehicles.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And and when and when you see the service for
these three men, you're going to see cops from all
over the world. You'll see Canadian motorcycles too. Yeah, and
it's going to be an unbelievable site. The motorcycles are
leaving right now. They're going out in front the fire
departments there as well. And then you'll see the three
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white vans and I think those the coroner vans. I've
never seen that my life. Three white vans side by
side by side, and they're going to carry these three
men to the medical Examiner's office. But I mean, just
put yourself in the shoes of the people related to
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these three men. You know, these three deputies and what
they're going through. You know they're watching it on TV,
but they're watching it with the most sadness they've ever
had in their life for probably every one of them.
And even though they know that this could happen on
any day or any night, when it does happen, it
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never ever makes it easier. And you know, just because
you know that your mom or dad, or brother and
sister may not be coming home, son or daughter in
this case, sons, it never makes it easier. It is
always in you know, a super super huge heartache that
never goes away.
Speaker 12 (10:06):
It's incredibly somber to look at this because as they
sort of pan out from above and you see all
of the vehicles lined up to start this procession, you
also see the yellow do not cross tape because that's
exactly where this explosion happened.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh yeah, I see it right, Yeah, yeah, they can't
go through that area. Yeah, sure, they're still investigating. And
then also you'll see members there from the Sheriff's Enforcement Bureau.
These are the guys that served with those three men.
And now you know, they've got to be exhausted. They've
been working for since very early this morning, and they
are going to you know, go home tonight, hug their
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kids a little tighter, their wives a little tighter, or
mom or dad, and it's going to be a long,
long weekend and again which otherwise should have been a
great weekend in southern California. It's the middle of summer.
You got, you know, the Orange County Fair opening up.
It's supposed to be a great time in Los Angeles
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and in southern California, Orange County riverside San Bernardino, And
this is just taking it one hundred and eighty degrees
in the opposite direction. The three vans are still lined up.
The motorcycles have left, and then the three vans will
follow them with hundreds of cars. You may even see
LAPD out there in the procession, I'm sure you will.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
And then the surrounding police.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I don't know what the surrounding area would be, the
direct areas would be, but there are a lot of
police forces that are in these small cities and you
may see them there as well. The motorcycles are lined
up right now, the Sheriff's motorcycles, and there's probably about fifty,
maybe seventy five of them. Then they'll have the three
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white vans. There's American flags all over the place. There's
at least three huge American flags, one of them leaving
the facility and then the other one one looks like
it's close towards the medical center, and you'll see the
fire department out there. Okay, that's Engine three. That's that's
right in the heart of downtown, I believe. But then
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there's Engine one sixty four which has come from quite
a ways, and tons of firemen out there all saluting.
And this procession is going to begin any second.
Speaker 11 (12:25):
Now.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
We're thirteen on one of those trucks too.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So Timmy, the Sheriff's station where they
are right now is in City Terrace, right and then
when they hop onto the ten westbound to the medical examiners,
I believe they're in East La.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Okay, all right, so it's not very far then, don no,
it's not. It's just gonna be a quick little trip,
but a very sad one. We're gonna take a quick break.
When this starts, we will bring it to you live
and follow it all the way to the medical examiners.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Off you're listening to m Conway Junior on demand from
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Speaker 2 (13:05):
This procession is going to go from the Academy Training Center,
the Sheriff's Department Academy Training Center, which is you can't
really see it from the freeway, but we've all passed it.
It's where the seven to ten and the ten Freeway meet.
It's on the west southwest corner of that intersection, and
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it's up on a hill, so you can't really see
it as you drive on that freeway, but we've all
been on the seven to ten merging under the ten Freeway,
and that's where this is going to happen. It's going
to come down City Terrace Drive, and they may or
may not get on it. Said they were going to
get on the ten Freeway, which I think they will,
but this entire procession is three point four miles, so
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it's a very very short procession.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
It'll be the three deputies that were killed.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
This morning in the line of duty, and as soon
as it starts, we will tell you. But I'm sure
that the ten Freeway will be closed between the seven
to ten Freeway and the five Freeway, and that's where
a lot of the action will be. So if you're
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on anywhere on the overpasses there or live in that
area and you want to just slide up there to
pay your respects, it will begin shortly and you'll see
it come from the training center, the Academy Training Center
to the medical center, which is right where USC Hospital
is in downtown Los Angeles, and they've already closed the
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street there. I think it is what is that Angels
at Marengo Street that they closed, I think it is
Marango and that's already closed, so you can't get by there.
But if you are going familiar with the USC Medical
Center or California Health Center and that neighborhood, this is
going to be on the south side of that Medical
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Center and it will be going along to ten Freeway
and then everything where the five and the ten meet,
everything is going to be jammed up there for a
little while, and for a very good reason. So if
you're on the freeway, don't get pissed. It's a, you know,
an unbelievable thing that's happened today, and there's going to
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be traffic and the freeway might actually even be closed
for a little while. So let me while we're while
we're waiting for the procession to start, let me play.
Alex Stone did a great piece here on the on
some of the emerging details on what we know, and
this is about almost exactly one hour ago. Alex Stone
with ABC News.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
Alex, you've been talking to your sources. I know this
is going to be a deep investigation. It's hard to
lay everything out right now.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
But what are you hearing so far? Even they are
confused right now over what this is.
Speaker 13 (15:55):
Law enforcement isn't quite sure how this all went down, but.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
They okay, it's starting now. The white vans are starting
to move. Let's go up to channel eleven here and further.
They have a helicopter. It's on channel two, four, five, seven,
nine and eleven.
Speaker 14 (16:13):
Some of the units from Riverside and there will shriffs.
Remember Elie County Sheriff's is Santa Clarita. It's a Palmdale, Lancaster.
Everybody wants to be here for this and they want
to be part of this procession. Let alone, you know,
the law enforcement from surrounding areas. I believe that they
are on the move right now and they're beginning to
make their way, and they usually do it very slowly.
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They take their time. This is their their final goodbye.
They see the end of watch, the end of call.
It's it's what you know. The end of watch is
just it's hard not to be emotionally cut up in it.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Yeah, and we can hear the emotion in your voice, Christina.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
And you could see the emotion Christina, which was also
quite remarkable at the press conference you were covering earlier,
just to see the hugs for the sheriff who broke
down in tears at one point, and Supervisor Barger and
other people, you know, hugging each other in a way
you don't usually see for the usually kind of stoic
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public officials.
Speaker 14 (17:12):
Even yeah, you know, and look, Luna was kind enough.
The sheriff was kind enough to come down here and
talk because he knew we were all waiting. He really,
I don't think he wanted to. He had been dealing
with the families and they knew very they had just
cleared the location, and it was at a courtesy to
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just and to let the community know that they did
not expect this to be anything that the community should
be afraid of. And now you can see here at
the bottom of the hill, this is your lead unit,
your lead CHP unit. The road has been cleared for
that lead CHP unit, but that unit is the one
that leads the way. And then behind the unit you
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will see the beginning of a procession and you will
see all of them information. They will write slowly behind
him with their lights on, not their sirens. This is
actually interesting. A lot of people think that they actually
do the sirens, but they don't. You're actually hearing a
call to attention here at the bottom of the hill.
Speaker 11 (18:19):
So we want to just listen in let's listen it.
Speaker 14 (19:09):
And now is when they turn on their sirens as
they get down to the bottom towards the freeway. It's
a call to let people know we're coming, we're on our.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Way, and you can hear it in Christina Gonzalez's voice.
She's really broken up by this. It breaks up even
the most veteran, the most seasoned reporters have been covering,
you know, tragedy for twenty thirty forty years. It still
hits home when you see those three white vans, and
none of us have ever seen that before. It hasn't
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happened ever, you know, since before Abraham Lincoln was president.
We've never seen three vans with three deputies headed towards
the medical Examiner's office. It's the first for everybody here
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
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Speaker 14 (20:15):
They're all leaving Hart to see from your perspective, perhaps
so from where I'm standing, I'm actually seeing their phases,
and I can see that some of these people are
just in tears as they're driving. It's just really hard
to watch, you know. I've seen a lot of processions
in my time. I had not seen one quite as
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large and quite some time, which speaks to just the
seriousness of what we're talking about.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Yeah, And in the coming days, of course, we're going
to learn the identities of these three individuals. We will
learn their their life stories and and you know, what
brought them to law enforcement, and to hear about their
service and their years of specialized training in order to
be a part of this. As well, we'll learn about
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their family members and what they did beyond their work
with law enforcement. As you know, the entire community and
the country will come together to honor them, and I
suspect that their funeral will be attended by most every
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public official in the area, probably broadcast live, especially if
it is one sort of large event. I don't know
if that will be the choice to have them all
sort of honored at one time, or if there will
be three separate events, so to have to think about
in the days ahead. But this is going to be
a big part of our thought process and our discussion
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in our news coverage in the days and potentially weeks
ahead as well.
Speaker 14 (21:52):
And as these vehicles. As these vehicles go by, I
should tell you the first seven vehicles were the the
K nine units.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
After that you'll see these.
Speaker 14 (22:03):
Black vehicles with the red and blue lights. They are
actually the vehicles from the Special Enforcement bureaus. The explosive detail.
Those are all those dark at uvs as you just saw.
Speaker 15 (22:14):
Angel.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Well, we're watching this and watching the procession. Here have
they closed the ten Freeway in that area?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
So on this live shot they're going over the ten
right now, and those westbound lanes look like they were
still open. There's still some cars traveling in the far
right lane, so it appears that traffic may still.
Speaker 10 (22:36):
Oh, I see they have cloth.
Speaker 16 (22:37):
It is going very very slowly. They have closed traffic,
so they've closed that. So that's going to be the
westbound ten that's closed. West town bound ten near the seven.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Ten, there's a motorcycle officer that has all lanes blocked
for the ten westbound to allow the procession to enter
the freeway. They're on the on ramp right now and
filing onto the ten westbound heading to Sodo, and I
noticed over at Sodo they also have the route to
the Medical Examiner's office off limits, so they've shut those
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surface streets down, which includes Sodo to Marengo, and traffic
in that area has just been at a standstill for
the last hour and a half. So it's just a really,
really tough drive over in that East La downtown LA area.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
All right, we're watching this, Thank you angel. We're watching this.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It's on the ten freeway heading westbound. There are probably
fifty motorcycles out in front. If you're in traffic and
you're traveling on the ten eastbound, if you get over
to the left hand lane, the number one lane, you'll
be able to see this. And it looks like some
cars are stopping on the eastbound ten Freeway to get
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out and pay their respects.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
That is kind of a cool thing they're going to
be crossing. There'll be up.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
There's four or five overpasses over the ten freeway there
and those are all closed down as well. And if
you're fortunate enough to have been stopped in the first
five or six rows of cars on the ten westbound.
You're going to see something that nobody in LA has
ever seen before. You're going to see, you know, police
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officer after deputy after deputy after deputy, and all these
cars traveling to the Medical Examiner's office, which is right
near USC Medical Center in downtown Los Angeles. And it's
going to be quite the delay. It's only a three
and a half mile trip, but it is going to
take some They're going to take some time here, and rightfully,
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so you know, these guys absolutely deserve it.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
A lot of flags.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
The fire Department has brought out a lot of these big,
huge flags that you see in when situations like this happen.
There are a ton of people on the overpass there
over the ten Freeway'm watching that on NBC right now,
Absolutely packed on the overpass over the ten Freeway as
it goes under the overpass.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
There's some big, huge tow.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Trucks there as well, I think probably part of the
Sheriff's department, and people leaning over on the overpass to
take a look at this procession. And again it's about
fifty motorcycles followed by three unmarked white vans and each
one of those vans carrying one of these deputies to
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the Medical Examiner's office. And it's a three and a
half mile trip, but it's going to take it may
take a half hour to get everybody there. And I
don't know what they're going to do with all these
cars once they get there. There is not enough room
for the one hundred or so cars, or maybe even
over one hundred, but these big SUVs as well, the
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patrol units, all of them with their they're flashing headlights
on and the red and blue lights on on the
roof as well. And and again people are stopping on
the eastbound ten or getting over to the number one
lane to take a look at this. There's people stopping
in the carpool lane as well to uh to, you know,
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just to see this kind of spectacle. Something we've never
seen before in Los Angeles. It is extremely sad when
a deputy or a police officer is killed in the
line of duty, and it grows exponentially when there's two
and now there's three, and we've not seen that in
La So anybody looking at this right now, this is
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the first time in the history of La County that
this has happened, you know, But this the this has
not happened before.
Speaker 10 (26:55):
We're going all the way back to Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It's incredible that it hasn't happened in the past, with
how dangerous is and how many nuts there are that
live amongst us, that this hasn't happened. They're coming up
on City Terrace Drive. They got on the freeway at
City Terrace Drive. You'll see some of the Highway Patrol
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officers flying by the procession to get ahead of them,
to stop and to block some of the on ramps
and off ramps. The carpool lane on the right hand
side of that westbound ten is still open, which I
find unusual, but I guess they're not interfering with it,
and people are flying by in that carpool lane. The
carpool lanes on the ten freeway there are both are
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both on the same side of the freeway. They're both
on the north side of that ten freeway, and a
lot of people if you're you know, if you've lived
in La for more than ten minutes, you've you've driven
on the ten and you have to make a decision
at the seven to ten whether it go east or
west and that's where this center is and they're now
getting off the freeway. A very short period of time
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they were on the freeway and now they're getting off
at the exit that is right before City Terrors. Okay,
the flag that was draped over the exit to the
training facility the academy has been taken down. So that's
all the cars that we'll be leaving. So it's not
as big as we thought. It might be one hundred
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cars or so, but now it's going over the carpool
lanes on the ten Freeway at Soto and they will
and then from there it's less than a mile from
where they are right now, and it is a site.
Let's pull up channel eleven here the audio and see
if they have anything to add here.
Speaker 13 (28:48):
And those type of the units that are very specialized.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Without saying their identities, are saying anything inappropriate?
Speaker 11 (28:56):
What can you tell us about these guys?
Speaker 13 (29:00):
All three of them are long term department members. I
think from nineteen to thirty. The thirty three year veteran
was on the verge of retiring. I mean that was
the sheriff luned corner for him.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
And all of them.
Speaker 13 (29:14):
One has four children, recently remarried and it's just hard,
hard for the individuals, hard for the co workers. I
have good friends that are their co workers that my
wife reached out to them to see how they're doing.
It's just it's really a long, sad day for the department.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
I'm sure they're shattered understandably. So you're seeing the procession here,
I don't know if you you were in routes. I'm
not sure if you saw just the size of it.
I want to get your reaction though, to the live
pictures here.
Speaker 13 (29:44):
It is probably the largest one I've ever seen.
Speaker 10 (29:47):
Oh, this is a luna.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
This is considering the circuit being away, but yeah, I'm
sorry it's being away, but the former sheriff two miles
of that.
Speaker 10 (30:02):
But it's a solid.
Speaker 13 (30:05):
A symbol of what each one of these fallen deputies
represents for not just a law enforcement community, but for
the entire nation.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
I know you've been a part of this before, right
as the sheriff. What's it like?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Take us sort of inside what it's like to be
a part of a procession like this and what a
day like this is like.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
Well, I had the misfortune when Tom Albanize was killed
in a motorcycle accident and on my birthday of all days,
hard to forget. And we went to the scene. We
escorted his remains, and it's a longer distance from Paramount
all the way to the county, the corner's office, and
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it was heartwarming to see individuals lining the roadway, even
homeless people taking off their cap.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
We were seeing the images of the overpass, which is
a common sight when these processions get underway. When to
Alex's point, you may not be able to say exactly
what you know, but when you're hearing about the transfer
of explosives and the longevity that all three of these
veterans had, I mean, what are your thoughts on what
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went wrong today?
Speaker 13 (31:19):
Well, the job they do is extremely dangerous.
Speaker 10 (31:22):
I mean it's a specialized unit.
Speaker 13 (31:24):
It takes a year of training just in that particular function,
and then takes years of practice to be proficient enough
at it. And they're the best in the business and
the entire nation. They are the experts at this. But again,
if you see the volume of what they're doing day
in and day out, they could do over one thousand
(31:44):
rollouts in a year. One thousand, which means two or
three times a day they're going to a suspicious package
or a known a pipe bomb, or you know, grandkids, Hey,
my vietnam Vic grandpa passed away, and now we have
a box of grenades in their garage. Typically things like that,
and that's what they do day in, day out, and
unfortunately it didn't work out for them.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
So this procession is now just arriving at where our
live camera is by the Coroner's office. I think let's
let's listen in and have sort of collective moment of
silence and listen to the sights of this and pay
our respects as well.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
The procession is pulling up right now, and I'm sorry.
They said sheriff on there, and I thought it was
Sheriff Luna.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
It's a former sheriff being a way of a but
they're they're at the Medical Examiner's office right now, or
at least for about a couple hundred feet away, and
there are tons of fire engines all lined up there.
Everybody outside in full uniform saluting the three vans that
are passing in front of them. The sheriffs cars and
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SUVs are lined up almost perpendicular to the curb where
they can fit them all in and there are hundreds
of them and they're all going under a huge American
flag right now that if you're familiar with USC hospital,
there's that McDonald's across the street that a lot of
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people go to. It's open twenty four hours. If you
have a friend or family in the hospital, that's where
you go to eat in off hours. That's where they're
passing right now, and they'll probably take a right, yeah,
take a right here into the Medical Examiner's office, going
into this huge flag that has to be you know,
twenty by fifty feet and stretched up over the ladders
(33:57):
from the Hook and Ladder Company of LA Fire Department
and the sheriffs motorcycles are the first ones to go in.
They'll go in and pass through the gates here, they'll
open the gates up and they'll all park there. And
I think what you're going to see is these three
vans park and then you're going to see deputies escort
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these these three bodies into the Medical Examiner's office. And
it's a very sad day in Southern California.
Speaker 10 (34:31):
It it it, you know, with a.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Loss of of three guys like this, very experienced in
what they do.
Speaker 10 (34:38):
We just heard former sheriff.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Of vien Awavas say that that they might they might
get a thousand calls a year, you know, an average
of average of three a day, and every single one
of them has to be treated with the utmost priority
and and uh and care because you never know and
and what the former sheriff said that they get a
lot of calls like that. You know, grandpa passed away
(35:02):
or great grandpa passed away, and he has a box
of grenades that he's been keeping in the garage, and
it's their job to come out examine them, look at
him and make life or death decisions and what to
do with them. In this case, they brought him to
the training center where they're going to dismantle them and
render them safe. The device is there, and one or
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two or more blew up and killed those three guys,
I believe instantly. So it sounds like it might have
been a grenade, but obviously we don't know. The names
haven't been given out yet of the deputies. As the
deputy as the three vans come in, the motorcycles have
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gone around the entire building and the three vans will
park there. The other SUVs will line the street probably
clogged the street, there moreno street, and then they'll get
out and escort these three bodies into the medical examiner's office.
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And it's we can never stress it enough. We've not
seen this before. Nobody has, nobody alive has ever seen
this before, where you have three bodies of these brave,
beautiful men escorted into the medical examiner's office.
Speaker 10 (36:24):
We've not seen it.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I've been living here in Los Angeles, you know, in
my entire life, and I've not seen it.
Speaker 10 (36:32):
Nobody has.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
It has not happened, you know, since the beginning of
the Sheriff's department eighteen fifty seven, you know, coming up
on you know, pretty shortly in twenty two years, thirty
two years, it'll be two hundred years, two hundred years,
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and so.
Speaker 10 (36:54):
A very very sad day.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
You can see a lot of the ambulance and paramedic
trucks are of all are also there lining the streets.
LAPD is blocking some of the streets there for the
Sheriff's Department. I imagine they're covering a lot of the
duties of the deputies who are taking part in this procession.
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The end of it is now getting off the freeway
escorted by highway patrol. There's highway patrol cars and Highway
patrol motorcycles at the end, and these are the guys
and gals who are blocking off ramps and on ramps
to make sure that they had a clear passage. It
was only three and a half miles from the training
center to the coroner's office. And I'm looking at the
(37:38):
vans right now. They're parked under some trees and in
the shade there where the big air conditioning unit is.
And now they're going I don't know if they're going
to back the vans into the facility.
Speaker 10 (37:51):
It don't look like they are. It looks like they're
going to open up.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
The backs of these vans and bring these three bodies
in to the medical examiner's office. Then Krosier, you you've
had some experience with this in the past. I think
what they do is they the the bodies are in there,
and they do the exam. But I've seen, you know
sometimes when you know it's it's almost six o'clock in
(38:17):
the evening here in Los Angeles, where they'll do the exam,
and then at midnight or one o'clock, you'll see another
procession of them leaving the medical examiners.
Speaker 12 (38:26):
Yeah, almost definitely. I would imagine they're going to get
right on it. And as soon as it's done, man,
they're going to move them again. And yeah, yeah, it's
and and being in the middle of the night, that'll
obviously affect traffic a little bit better. It's it would be.
It's one of those rare times where if you're stuck
in traffic and you're and you understand and are aware
(38:46):
of why you're stuck in traffic, you kind.
Speaker 10 (38:48):
Of just don't care, take that breathe and you go all.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Right, especially if you got you know, if you're fortunate
enough to be in the front row there to see
all that. Now they're they're lined up three rows d
of deputies are going to pull the bodies of these
brave men out and take them into the medical Examiner's office.
So the procession is ended. They're now at the medical
Examiner's office. We're going to take a break and we'll
(39:13):
come back with more of this horrible, tragic day here
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
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Am sixty.
Speaker 10 (39:24):
It is The Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
We continue to watch the procession, which has ended it
has gone from the training facility in East Los Angeles
to downtown Los Angeles about three and a half miles.
Hundreds of deputies following the three vans that contain the
bodies of the three men were that were killed this
morning in the Sheriff's Enforcement bureaum. And now the investigation starts.
(39:51):
Where did this, Where did the material come from, who
was responsible for the material and all the details. That
material was brought in to the training center at seven
thirty this morning, so I imagine it was gathered pretty late
last night or early this morning. But let's find out
where the next step is the investigation. Who had this material,
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where did it come from, and who owned it, who
is in possession of it, What prompted the call to
the Sheriff's bomb squad, And let's find out also if
it was in Santa Monica, if it was reported to
the Santa Monica Police Department, then I guess their policy
is to call the Sheriff's Department, who has the specialists
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and the people who know how to dismantle and take
these things apart. Maybe that's the move. Maybe Santa Monica
doesn't have their own bomb squad or their own Enforcement Bureau,
the Police enforcement in Santa Monica. All right, let's find
out what's going on with the investigation here on this tragedy.
Speaker 10 (40:54):
So new developments.
Speaker 17 (40:54):
Katla has been reporting all day that law enforcement sources
had connected the detonation that killed those three deputies to
ordinances that were picked up here in Santa Monica on Thursday.
Let me step out. You can see what's happening right now.
The bomb squad is here at Bay and Lincoln here
in Santa Monica in connection with the explosion that killed
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those three deputies at the training facility this morning. This
investigation focusing on this apartment building. You can see it's
beigeous yellow colored right here where told residents had to
evacuate about two hours ago so the bomb squad could
go back in and search for any additional devices.
Speaker 10 (41:32):
Now we know this because a man.
Speaker 17 (41:34):
Who lives here told us that the bomb squad was
called here yesterday after another tenant found what she thought
were old grenades stored in a storage locker, and those
grenades were removed. Here's more of what he told us.
Speaker 15 (41:48):
The Sheriff's office and Santa Monica PD came yesterday to
remove old grenades several old grenades were found in a
storage unit from a tenant used to live here. The
current tenant found them. They kind of fell off, like
the rafters or something, just somewhere she had never she
(42:10):
obviously hadn't seen them. She checked found grenades and called
the police force.
Speaker 10 (42:15):
Kind of fell I mean, and who has live grenades?
Got mighty.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
It's twenty twenty five and somebody's just casually keeping live
grenades and they.
Speaker 10 (42:25):
Say old grenades. I'm really curious as to what they
mean by that.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Right, And they fall, you know, they're up on a
shelf somewhere and they just fall onto the floor.
Speaker 10 (42:32):
Got al mighty.
Speaker 17 (42:32):
And that man told us someone who was once in
the military lived here had stored those devices and that
they were left behind when he moved and they were
only recently discovered.
Speaker 10 (42:44):
He says.
Speaker 17 (42:44):
Bomb experts are now searching the unit that man once
lived in to be sure that there aren't any other
devices stored here.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
Now.
Speaker 17 (42:52):
We're working to get an update from law enforcement about
these details as this investigation continues here in Santa Monica.
Will have more from some of the folks who live
in this building coming up in the next hour.
Speaker 10 (43:06):
Well, you know, Krozier.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
You've you have relatives, you know, who fought in the
armed services World War One, World War two. My grandfather did,
my dad did. My grandfather I was in Cleveland building
tanks for US Steel. My dad was up in Fort Lee,
I believe, in out outside of Seattle. But these guys,
(43:27):
they do collect these old shells of hand grenades that
are empty and there's nothing in it. You could see
right through them. But he had to have believed that
these things were already safe. You know, nobody has a
live hand grenade that they keep in their apartment, and
I've seen them in my uncle's place. My grandfather had one.
There's these old shells and they keep them and they're
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nostalgic and they're all, you know, completely phony. They've all
been hollowed out and they're not a threat to anybody.
But in this case they were. And now they're gonna
have to find out if there's any more. This is
going to be a big investigation.
Speaker 12 (44:03):
My grandfather served in World War two Korea and Vietnam,
and when he passed away, actually when my dad passed away,
he had all my grandfather's stuff in a garage and
he had probably thirty to forty of the of the
chests you know where you store all of your clothes
and all that. He had thirty to forty of them,
just lining up a wall that had all kinds of
(44:25):
uniforms and a lot of Nazi paraphernalia belt buckles and
bayonets and things like that. But as far as I know,
no live rounds of anything. But I do remember my
father had some old rifles from Vietnam and some guns
that my grandfather brought back. He had since gotten rid
of those, so none of those were there. But yeah,
they have a tendency to bring, especially military, bringing stuff
(44:48):
back and have it stored somewhere. It's fascinating to me
that somebody would would have this stuff, grenades and then
move out and forget you had them.
Speaker 10 (44:56):
Yeah, but maybe the guy passed away. It sounded like
he may have passed away. Yeah, they said he moved out,
but no voluntarily.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Not Okay, all right, we're gonna have one of my
friends from the bomb squad, Johnny Hanson's gonna come out
with us, so we will talk to him in the
next segment. We're live on KFI AM six forty.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
So we're waiting for the procession to begin with these,
with the three bodies of the deputies that would be
taken to downtown Los Angeles to the Medical Examiner's office,
and as soon as that begins, we'll have that for you.
But let me play the timeline again. If you're just
tuning in, you're just getting into LA. You've flown into lax.
(00:30):
Perhaps you're just waking up. You worked all night. Three
deputies were killed this morning in an explosion, all member
of the Sheriff's Enforcement Bureau, and they have a tremendous
amount of experience nineteen years, twenty two years, thirty three years.
It happened around seven thirty this morning. There's a couple
of stories going around. It might have been a pipe bomb,
(00:51):
it may have been a hand grenade. Either way, we'll
have that information for immediately when it's confirmed. The procession
will begin at any moment, and it'll be carried live
on television and on Channel two, four, five, seven, nine eleven,
and we will have that for you and carry it
live as well. Here on KFI. Here is a timeline
(01:15):
of what happened today. They sort of catch you up
and put it all in about two minutes. Here of
how things happened and when things happen on this tragic
boarding here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
The FBI and ATF now investigating the deadly explosion at
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department training facility in.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
East Lamater to Next four and Wonder Avenue.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It happened in a parking lot filled with Sheriff's patrol
cars and box trucks, the blast killing three deputies members
of the Sheriff's bomb Squad.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
It appears La County sheriff Deputies from the bomb Squad,
we're pulling something on a cart.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
That's what it looks like to us.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
There was an explosion.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Preliminary and information indicates deputies removing an unexploded ordinance recently
recovered from a bomb call. According to two law enforcement sources.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
This is unfortunately, the largest loss of life for US
as the La County Sheriff's Department since eighteen fifty seven.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Firefighters rushing onto the scene the LAPD Bomb Squad called
into help Sheriff's Holicide detectives there to investigate.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
There's a lot more that we don't know than what
we do know. There is no threat to this community.
This is an isolated incident.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
LA Sheriff Robert Luna says the deputies had years of
experience working with explosives.
Speaker 8 (02:36):
Between all three sworn members, they had served our community
proudly for seventy four years. I have met with two
of the three families thus far, and as you can imagine,
those were extremely challenging conversations.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Last year, neighboring Orange County, sixteen members of the Sheriff's
Department's swap team were hospitalized after an explosion during an
indoor training exercise there. California's governor and LA's mayor are
in contact with the LA Shared's Department as investigators work
to determine what caused this deadly explosion.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Okay, so that's sort of a timeline of what happened.
And now Alex Stone, who comes on with us very
quite often, maybe two sometimes three times a week, he
did a terrific piece on putting everything together. And this
was about twenty five minutes ago or so.
Speaker 9 (03:28):
Alex, you've been talking to your sources. I know this
is going to be a deep investigation. It's hard to look.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, the procession is beginning here and we'll take this live.
There's three white fans with three coffins that are draped
with American flags.
Speaker 10 (03:43):
Channel eleven is on it. We'll take this audio here.
Speaker 11 (03:47):
Information not all.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Of the families at that point even have been notified.
Next to Ken hadn't been notified, right.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
So we really don't know exactly what they were holding,
why they were holding, how this happened, and we have
not seen any sort of video or anything of this.
So there's a lot of questions on how exactly that happened.
But with the you know, that doesn't really matter that
much to the family members who have lost their loved
one tonight and are now, you know, sort of shocked
(04:17):
and we're not expecting this. And a reminder really for
anybody in law enforcement that you know, any day, you know,
this could happen. This is the nightmare for law enforcement. Obviously,
something like this doesn't happen that often, and certainly at
this scale of the department, and hasn't happened since before
Abraham Lincoln was elected president. So that gives you some
(04:40):
perspective that This is not a common thing, but it
is just devastating, and it's also devastating not only the
entire department, but the special speciality to be able to
do this kind of work. To lose three people that
do it all at the same time really hurts the
department and their readiness to be with situations like this.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Yes, this particular facility, this guy loose, regional training facility.
It serves the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau and the arsen
Explosives Detail, which we heard the sheriff say these three
deputies were part of the Arson explosive detail, the best
of the best. I'll reiterate the years of service seventy
(05:23):
four years of combined service, thirty three years for one,
twenty two years for another, and nineteen years for the third.
And those bodies have been loaded into the vans and
now the procession will formally begin momentarily. We will continue
to follow that live here on Fox eleven. So once
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that begins, we will show you that again, it's not
that long of a route. We also do have a
reporter standing by about what this could be linked to,
because the big question remains of what caused the explosion.
There are are some There is some speculation, there is
some reporting that we will get to that this could
(06:07):
be linked to a Santa Monica apartment complex where grenades
were where grenades were found yesterday and a bomb squad
was called in. So Laura Diaz, she is working that
angle of the story. We will get to that eventually,
but in the meantime, we do want to stick live
with our picture from SKYFOWKX as the procession is set
(06:28):
to get underway.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, it's pretty, uh, stunning and remarkable. We have we have,
of course observed processions similar to this, unfortunately many times
over the years. But to see three vehicles together, uh.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, he's got a great point. I've never seen that before.
I've never seen that white vans like that and side
by side, and then you see a couple hundred deputies
there and there's a there's a wide shot of where
they're going to be taken. It's not very far. It's
just a couple of miles up the ten freeway. And
as this goes on, you'll see freeway on ramps and
(07:07):
off ramps closed to see the fire department. They will
bring their hooking ladders up and then drape a wire
across the street and hanging a huge American flag, and
I've already seen.
Speaker 10 (07:18):
Three or four of those.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You'll see the ten Freeway will be packed with people
paying their respects, standing on the overpasses and watching as
the procession moves from East Los Angeles West towards the
Medical Examiner's Office. Right now, what we're seeing on TV
is all the deputies getting in their cars on their motorcycles.
(07:44):
A lot of the of the white unmarked cars are there,
A lot of the black and whites that the sheriffs
drive around in the I don't believe it looks like
the SWAT van there. Although I don't believe they call
the deputy or the LA Sheriff's Department. I think they
refer to it as the Sheriff's Enforcement BUREAUM.
Speaker 10 (08:05):
I don't think they use uh swat.
Speaker 12 (08:07):
That's interesting when they loaded them into the van and
then I thought, why aren't they going? And then I
realized exactly what you were saying. All of the deputies
were lined up on both sides of the street as
they put the coffins into the vans. And now all
those deputies are going to their cars to be able
to take part in the procession.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, and and Krozier, I don't know how this works,
because you know, the the Sheriff's department is responsible for
the entire county and so I don't know, you know,
how they cover those positions that are going to be
vacated for the next hour or so.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
That is a lot of cars that are lined up
for huge a lot of vehicles.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And and when and when you see the service for
these three men, you're going to see cops from all
over the world. You'll see Canadian motorcycles too. Yeah, and
it's going to be an unbelievable site. The motorcycles are
leaving right now. They're going out in front the fire
departments there as well. And then you'll see the three
(09:06):
white vans and I think those the coroner vans. I've
never seen that my life. Three white vans side by
side by side, and they're going to carry these three
men to the medical Examiner's office. But I mean, just
put yourself in the shoes of the people related to
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these three men. You know, these three deputies and what
they're going through. You know they're watching it on TV,
but they're watching it with the most sadness they've ever
had in their life for probably every one of them.
And even though they know that this could happen on
any day or any night, when it does happen, it
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never ever makes it easier. And you know, just because
you know that your mom or dad, or brother and
sister may not be coming home, son or daughter in
this case, sons, it never makes it easier. It is
always in you know, a super super huge heartache that
never goes away.
Speaker 12 (10:06):
It's incredibly somber to look at this because as they
sort of pan out from above and you see all
of the vehicles lined up to start this procession, you
also see the yellow do not cross tape because that's
exactly where this explosion happened.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh yeah, I see it right, Yeah, yeah, they can't
go through that area. Yeah, sure, they're still investigating. And
then also you'll see members there from the Sheriff's Enforcement Bureau.
These are the guys that served with those three men.
And now you know, they've got to be exhausted. They've
been working for since very early this morning, and they
are going to you know, go home tonight, hug their
(10:44):
kids a little tighter, their wives a little tighter, or
mom or dad, and it's going to be a long,
long weekend and again which otherwise should have been a
great weekend in southern California. It's the middle of summer.
You got, you know, the Orange County Fair opening up.
It's supposed to be a great time in Los Angeles
(11:04):
and in southern California, Orange County riverside San Bernardino, And
this is just taking it one hundred and eighty degrees
in the opposite direction. The three vans are still lined up.
The motorcycles have left, and then the three vans will
follow them with hundreds of cars. You may even see
LAPD out there in the procession, I'm sure you will.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
And then the surrounding police.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I don't know what the surrounding area would be, the
direct areas would be, but there are a lot of
police forces that are in these small cities and you
may see them there as well. The motorcycles are lined
up right now, the Sheriff's motorcycles, and there's probably about fifty,
maybe seventy five of them. Then they'll have the three
(11:52):
white vans. There's American flags all over the place. There's
at least three huge American flags, one of them leaving
the facility and then the other one one looks like
it's close towards the medical center, and you'll see the
fire department out there. Okay, that's Engine three. That's that's
right in the heart of downtown, I believe. But then
(12:12):
there's Engine one sixty four which has come from quite
a ways, and tons of firemen out there all saluting.
And this procession is going to begin any second.
Speaker 11 (12:25):
Now.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
We're thirteen on one of those trucks too.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So Timmy, the Sheriff's station where they
are right now is in City Terrace, right and then
when they hop onto the ten westbound to the medical examiners,
I believe they're in East La.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Okay, all right, so it's not very far then, don no,
it's not. It's just gonna be a quick little trip,
but a very sad one. We're gonna take a quick break.
When this starts, we will bring it to you live
and follow it all the way to the medical examiners.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Off you're listening to m Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
This procession is going to go from the Academy Training Center,
the Sheriff's Department Academy Training Center, which is you can't
really see it from the freeway, but we've all passed it.
It's where the seven to ten and the ten Freeway meet.
It's on the west southwest corner of that intersection, and
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it's up on a hill, so you can't really see
it as you drive on that freeway, but we've all
been on the seven to ten merging under the ten Freeway,
and that's where this is going to happen. It's going
to come down City Terrace Drive, and they may or
may not get on it. Said they were going to
get on the ten Freeway, which I think they will,
but this entire procession is three point four miles, so
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it's a very very short procession.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
It'll be the three deputies that were killed.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
This morning in the line of duty, and as soon
as it starts, we will tell you. But I'm sure
that the ten Freeway will be closed between the seven
to ten Freeway and the five Freeway, and that's where
a lot of the action will be. So if you're
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on anywhere on the overpasses there or live in that
area and you want to just slide up there to
pay your respects, it will begin shortly and you'll see
it come from the training center, the Academy Training Center
to the medical center, which is right where USC Hospital
is in downtown Los Angeles, and they've already closed the
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street there. I think it is what is that Angels
at Marengo Street that they closed, I think it is
Marango and that's already closed, so you can't get by there.
But if you are going familiar with the USC Medical
Center or California Health Center and that neighborhood, this is
going to be on the south side of that Medical
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Center and it will be going along to ten Freeway
and then everything where the five and the ten meet,
everything is going to be jammed up there for a
little while, and for a very good reason. So if
you're on the freeway, don't get pissed. It's a, you know,
an unbelievable thing that's happened today, and there's going to
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be traffic and the freeway might actually even be closed
for a little while. So let me while we're while
we're waiting for the procession to start, let me play.
Alex Stone did a great piece here on the on
some of the emerging details on what we know, and
this is about almost exactly one hour ago. Alex Stone
with ABC News.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
Alex, you've been talking to your sources. I know this
is going to be a deep investigation. It's hard to
lay everything out right now.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
But what are you hearing so far? Even they are
confused right now over what this is.
Speaker 13 (15:55):
Law enforcement isn't quite sure how this all went down, but.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
They okay, it's starting now. The white vans are starting
to move. Let's go up to channel eleven here and further.
They have a helicopter. It's on channel two, four, five, seven,
nine and eleven.
Speaker 14 (16:13):
Some of the units from Riverside and there will shriffs.
Remember Elie County Sheriff's is Santa Clarita. It's a Palmdale, Lancaster.
Everybody wants to be here for this and they want
to be part of this procession. Let alone, you know,
the law enforcement from surrounding areas. I believe that they
are on the move right now and they're beginning to
make their way, and they usually do it very slowly.
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They take their time. This is their their final goodbye.
They see the end of watch, the end of call.
It's it's what you know. The end of watch is
just it's hard not to be emotionally cut up in it.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Yeah, and we can hear the emotion in your voice, Christina.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
And you could see the emotion Christina, which was also
quite remarkable at the press conference you were covering earlier,
just to see the hugs for the sheriff who broke
down in tears at one point, and Supervisor Barger and
other people, you know, hugging each other in a way
you don't usually see for the usually kind of stoic
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public officials.
Speaker 14 (17:12):
Even yeah, you know, and look, Luna was kind enough.
The sheriff was kind enough to come down here and
talk because he knew we were all waiting. He really,
I don't think he wanted to. He had been dealing
with the families and they knew very they had just
cleared the location, and it was at a courtesy to
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just and to let the community know that they did
not expect this to be anything that the community should
be afraid of. And now you can see here at
the bottom of the hill, this is your lead unit,
your lead CHP unit. The road has been cleared for
that lead CHP unit, but that unit is the one
that leads the way. And then behind the unit you
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will see the beginning of a procession and you will
see all of them information. They will write slowly behind
him with their lights on, not their sirens. This is
actually interesting. A lot of people think that they actually
do the sirens, but they don't. You're actually hearing a
call to attention here at the bottom of the hill.
Speaker 11 (18:19):
So we want to just listen in let's listen it.
Speaker 14 (19:09):
And now is when they turn on their sirens as
they get down to the bottom towards the freeway. It's
a call to let people know we're coming, we're on our.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Way, and you can hear it in Christina Gonzalez's voice.
She's really broken up by this. It breaks up even
the most veteran, the most seasoned reporters have been covering,
you know, tragedy for twenty thirty forty years. It still
hits home when you see those three white vans, and
none of us have ever seen that before. It hasn't
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happened ever, you know, since before Abraham Lincoln was president.
We've never seen three vans with three deputies headed towards
the medical Examiner's office. It's the first for everybody here
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
A six forty.
Speaker 14 (20:15):
They're all leaving Hart to see from your perspective, perhaps
so from where I'm standing, I'm actually seeing their phases,
and I can see that some of these people are
just in tears as they're driving. It's just really hard
to watch, you know. I've seen a lot of processions
in my time. I had not seen one quite as
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large and quite some time, which speaks to just the
seriousness of what we're talking about.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Yeah, And in the coming days, of course, we're going
to learn the identities of these three individuals. We will
learn their their life stories and and you know, what
brought them to law enforcement, and to hear about their
service and their years of specialized training in order to
be a part of this. As well, we'll learn about
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their family members and what they did beyond their work
with law enforcement. As you know, the entire community and
the country will come together to honor them, and I
suspect that their funeral will be attended by most every
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public official in the area, probably broadcast live, especially if
it is one sort of large event. I don't know
if that will be the choice to have them all
sort of honored at one time, or if there will
be three separate events, so to have to think about
in the days ahead. But this is going to be
a big part of our thought process and our discussion
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in our news coverage in the days and potentially weeks
ahead as well.
Speaker 14 (21:52):
And as these vehicles. As these vehicles go by, I
should tell you the first seven vehicles were the the
K nine units.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
After that you'll see these.
Speaker 14 (22:03):
Black vehicles with the red and blue lights. They are
actually the vehicles from the Special Enforcement bureaus. The explosive detail.
Those are all those dark at uvs as you just saw.
Speaker 15 (22:14):
Angel.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Well, we're watching this and watching the procession. Here have
they closed the ten Freeway in that area?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
So on this live shot they're going over the ten
right now, and those westbound lanes look like they were
still open. There's still some cars traveling in the far
right lane, so it appears that traffic may still.
Speaker 10 (22:36):
Oh, I see they have cloth.
Speaker 16 (22:37):
It is going very very slowly. They have closed traffic,
so they've closed that. So that's going to be the
westbound ten that's closed. West town bound ten near the seven.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Ten, there's a motorcycle officer that has all lanes blocked
for the ten westbound to allow the procession to enter
the freeway. They're on the on ramp right now and
filing onto the ten westbound heading to Sodo, and I
noticed over at Sodo they also have the route to
the Medical Examiner's office off limits, so they've shut those
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surface streets down, which includes Sodo to Marengo, and traffic
in that area has just been at a standstill for
the last hour and a half. So it's just a really,
really tough drive over in that East La downtown LA area.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
All right, we're watching this, Thank you angel. We're watching this.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It's on the ten freeway heading westbound. There are probably
fifty motorcycles out in front. If you're in traffic and
you're traveling on the ten eastbound, if you get over
to the left hand lane, the number one lane, you'll
be able to see this. And it looks like some
cars are stopping on the eastbound ten Freeway to get
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out and pay their respects.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
That is kind of a cool thing they're going to
be crossing. There'll be up.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
There's four or five overpasses over the ten freeway there
and those are all closed down as well. And if
you're fortunate enough to have been stopped in the first
five or six rows of cars on the ten westbound.
You're going to see something that nobody in LA has
ever seen before. You're going to see, you know, police
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officer after deputy after deputy after deputy, and all these
cars traveling to the Medical Examiner's office, which is right
near USC Medical Center in downtown Los Angeles. And it's
going to be quite the delay. It's only a three
and a half mile trip, but it is going to
take some They're going to take some time here, and rightfully,
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so you know, these guys absolutely deserve it.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
A lot of flags.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
The fire Department has brought out a lot of these big,
huge flags that you see in when situations like this happen.
There are a ton of people on the overpass there
over the ten Freeway'm watching that on NBC right now,
Absolutely packed on the overpass over the ten Freeway as
it goes under the overpass.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
There's some big, huge tow.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Trucks there as well, I think probably part of the
Sheriff's department, and people leaning over on the overpass to
take a look at this procession. And again it's about
fifty motorcycles followed by three unmarked white vans and each
one of those vans carrying one of these deputies to
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the Medical Examiner's office. And it's a three and a
half mile trip, but it's going to take it may
take a half hour to get everybody there. And I
don't know what they're going to do with all these
cars once they get there. There is not enough room
for the one hundred or so cars, or maybe even
over one hundred, but these big SUVs as well, the
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patrol units, all of them with their they're flashing headlights
on and the red and blue lights on on the
roof as well. And and again people are stopping on
the eastbound ten or getting over to the number one
lane to take a look at this. There's people stopping
in the carpool lane as well to uh to, you know,
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just to see this kind of spectacle. Something we've never
seen before in Los Angeles. It is extremely sad when
a deputy or a police officer is killed in the
line of duty, and it grows exponentially when there's two
and now there's three, and we've not seen that in
La So anybody looking at this right now, this is
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the first time in the history of La County that
this has happened, you know, But this the this has
not happened before.
Speaker 10 (26:55):
We're going all the way back to Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It's incredible that it hasn't happened in the past, with
how dangerous is and how many nuts there are that
live amongst us, that this hasn't happened. They're coming up
on City Terrace Drive. They got on the freeway at
City Terrace Drive. You'll see some of the Highway Patrol
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officers flying by the procession to get ahead of them,
to stop and to block some of the on ramps
and off ramps. The carpool lane on the right hand
side of that westbound ten is still open, which I
find unusual, but I guess they're not interfering with it,
and people are flying by in that carpool lane. The
carpool lanes on the ten freeway there are both are
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both on the same side of the freeway. They're both
on the north side of that ten freeway, and a
lot of people if you're you know, if you've lived
in La for more than ten minutes, you've you've driven
on the ten and you have to make a decision
at the seven to ten whether it go east or
west and that's where this center is and they're now
getting off the freeway. A very short period of time
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they were on the freeway and now they're getting off
at the exit that is right before City Terrors. Okay,
the flag that was draped over the exit to the
training facility the academy has been taken down. So that's
all the cars that we'll be leaving. So it's not
as big as we thought. It might be one hundred
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cars or so, but now it's going over the carpool
lanes on the ten Freeway at Soto and they will
and then from there it's less than a mile from
where they are right now, and it is a site.
Let's pull up channel eleven here the audio and see
if they have anything to add here.
Speaker 13 (28:48):
And those type of the units that are very specialized.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Without saying their identities, are saying anything inappropriate?
Speaker 11 (28:56):
What can you tell us about these guys?
Speaker 13 (29:00):
All three of them are long term department members. I
think from nineteen to thirty. The thirty three year veteran
was on the verge of retiring. I mean that was
the sheriff luned corner for him.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
And all of them.
Speaker 13 (29:14):
One has four children, recently remarried and it's just hard,
hard for the individuals, hard for the co workers. I
have good friends that are their co workers that my
wife reached out to them to see how they're doing.
It's just it's really a long, sad day for the department.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
I'm sure they're shattered understandably. So you're seeing the procession here,
I don't know if you you were in routes. I'm
not sure if you saw just the size of it.
I want to get your reaction though, to the live
pictures here.
Speaker 13 (29:44):
It is probably the largest one I've ever seen.
Speaker 10 (29:47):
Oh, this is a luna.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
This is considering the circuit being away, but yeah, I'm
sorry it's being away, but the former sheriff two miles
of that.
Speaker 10 (30:02):
But it's a solid.
Speaker 13 (30:05):
A symbol of what each one of these fallen deputies
represents for not just a law enforcement community, but for
the entire nation.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
I know you've been a part of this before, right
as the sheriff. What's it like?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Take us sort of inside what it's like to be
a part of a procession like this and what a
day like this is like.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
Well, I had the misfortune when Tom Albanize was killed
in a motorcycle accident and on my birthday of all days,
hard to forget. And we went to the scene. We
escorted his remains, and it's a longer distance from Paramount
all the way to the county, the corner's office, and
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it was heartwarming to see individuals lining the roadway, even
homeless people taking off their cap.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
We were seeing the images of the overpass, which is
a common sight when these processions get underway. When to
Alex's point, you may not be able to say exactly
what you know, but when you're hearing about the transfer
of explosives and the longevity that all three of these
veterans had, I mean, what are your thoughts on what
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went wrong today?
Speaker 13 (31:19):
Well, the job they do is extremely dangerous.
Speaker 10 (31:22):
I mean it's a specialized unit.
Speaker 13 (31:24):
It takes a year of training just in that particular function,
and then takes years of practice to be proficient enough
at it. And they're the best in the business and
the entire nation. They are the experts at this. But again,
if you see the volume of what they're doing day
in and day out, they could do over one thousand
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rollouts in a year. One thousand, which means two or
three times a day they're going to a suspicious package
or a known a pipe bomb, or you know, grandkids, Hey,
my vietnam Vic grandpa passed away, and now we have
a box of grenades in their garage. Typically things like that,
and that's what they do day in, day out, and
unfortunately it didn't work out for them.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
So this procession is now just arriving at where our
live camera is by the Coroner's office. I think let's
let's listen in and have sort of collective moment of
silence and listen to the sights of this and pay
our respects as well.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
The procession is pulling up right now, and I'm sorry.
They said sheriff on there, and I thought it was
Sheriff Luna.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
It's a former sheriff being a way of a but
they're they're at the Medical Examiner's office right now, or
at least for about a couple hundred feet away, and
there are tons of fire engines all lined up there.
Everybody outside in full uniform saluting the three vans that
are passing in front of them. The sheriffs cars and
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SUVs are lined up almost perpendicular to the curb where
they can fit them all in and there are hundreds
of them and they're all going under a huge American
flag right now that if you're familiar with USC hospital,
there's that McDonald's across the street that a lot of
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people go to. It's open twenty four hours. If you
have a friend or family in the hospital, that's where
you go to eat in off hours. That's where they're
passing right now, and they'll probably take a right, yeah,
take a right here into the Medical Examiner's office, going
into this huge flag that has to be you know,
twenty by fifty feet and stretched up over the ladders
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from the Hook and Ladder Company of LA Fire Department
and the sheriffs motorcycles are the first ones to go in.
They'll go in and pass through the gates here, they'll
open the gates up and they'll all park there. And
I think what you're going to see is these three
vans park and then you're going to see deputies escort
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these these three bodies into the Medical Examiner's office. And
it's a very sad day in Southern California.
Speaker 10 (34:31):
It it it, you know, with a.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Loss of of three guys like this, very experienced in
what they do.
Speaker 10 (34:38):
We just heard former sheriff.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Of vien Awavas say that that they might they might
get a thousand calls a year, you know, an average
of average of three a day, and every single one
of them has to be treated with the utmost priority
and and uh and care because you never know and
and what the former sheriff said that they get a
lot of calls like that. You know, grandpa passed away
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or great grandpa passed away, and he has a box
of grenades that he's been keeping in the garage, and
it's their job to come out examine them, look at
him and make life or death decisions and what to
do with them. In this case, they brought him to
the training center where they're going to dismantle them and
render them safe. The device is there, and one or
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two or more blew up and killed those three guys,
I believe instantly. So it sounds like it might have
been a grenade, but obviously we don't know. The names
haven't been given out yet of the deputies. As the
deputy as the three vans come in, the motorcycles have
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gone around the entire building and the three vans will
park there. The other SUVs will line the street probably
clogged the street, there moreno street, and then they'll get
out and escort these three bodies into the medical examiner's office.
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And it's we can never stress it enough. We've not
seen this before. Nobody has, nobody alive has ever seen
this before, where you have three bodies of these brave,
beautiful men escorted into the medical examiner's office.
Speaker 10 (36:24):
We've not seen it.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I've been living here in Los Angeles, you know, in
my entire life, and I've not seen it.
Speaker 10 (36:32):
Nobody has.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
It has not happened, you know, since the beginning of
the Sheriff's department eighteen fifty seven, you know, coming up
on you know, pretty shortly in twenty two years, thirty
two years, it'll be two hundred years, two hundred years,
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and so.
Speaker 10 (36:54):
A very very sad day.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
You can see a lot of the ambulance and paramedic
trucks are of all are also there lining the streets.
LAPD is blocking some of the streets there for the
Sheriff's Department. I imagine they're covering a lot of the
duties of the deputies who are taking part in this procession.
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The end of it is now getting off the freeway
escorted by highway patrol. There's highway patrol cars and Highway
patrol motorcycles at the end, and these are the guys
and gals who are blocking off ramps and on ramps
to make sure that they had a clear passage. It
was only three and a half miles from the training
center to the coroner's office. And I'm looking at the
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vans right now. They're parked under some trees and in
the shade there where the big air conditioning unit is.
And now they're going I don't know if they're going
to back the vans into the facility.
Speaker 10 (37:51):
It don't look like they are. It looks like they're
going to open up.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
The backs of these vans and bring these three bodies
in to the medical examiner's office. Then Krosier, you you've
had some experience with this in the past. I think
what they do is they the the bodies are in there,
and they do the exam. But I've seen, you know
sometimes when you know it's it's almost six o'clock in
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the evening here in Los Angeles, where they'll do the exam,
and then at midnight or one o'clock, you'll see another
procession of them leaving the medical examiners.
Speaker 12 (38:26):
Yeah, almost definitely. I would imagine they're going to get
right on it. And as soon as it's done, man,
they're going to move them again. And yeah, yeah, it's
and and being in the middle of the night, that'll
obviously affect traffic a little bit better. It's it would be.
It's one of those rare times where if you're stuck
in traffic and you're and you understand and are aware
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of why you're stuck in traffic, you kind.
Speaker 10 (38:48):
Of just don't care, take that breathe and you go all.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Right, especially if you got you know, if you're fortunate
enough to be in the front row there to see
all that. Now they're they're lined up three rows d
of deputies are going to pull the bodies of these
brave men out and take them into the medical Examiner's office.
So the procession is ended. They're now at the medical
Examiner's office. We're going to take a break and we'll
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come back with more of this horrible, tragic day here
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 10 (39:24):
It is The Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
We continue to watch the procession, which has ended it
has gone from the training facility in East Los Angeles
to downtown Los Angeles about three and a half miles.
Hundreds of deputies following the three vans that contain the
bodies of the three men were that were killed this
morning in the Sheriff's Enforcement bureaum. And now the investigation starts.
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Where did this, Where did the material come from, who
was responsible for the material and all the details. That
material was brought in to the training center at seven
thirty this morning, so I imagine it was gathered pretty late
last night or early this morning. But let's find out
where the next step is the investigation. Who had this material,
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where did it come from, and who owned it, who
is in possession of it, What prompted the call to
the Sheriff's bomb squad, And let's find out also if
it was in Santa Monica, if it was reported to
the Santa Monica Police Department, then I guess their policy
is to call the Sheriff's Department, who has the specialists
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and the people who know how to dismantle and take
these things apart. Maybe that's the move. Maybe Santa Monica
doesn't have their own bomb squad or their own Enforcement Bureau,
the Police enforcement in Santa Monica. All right, let's find
out what's going on with the investigation here on this tragedy.
Speaker 10 (40:54):
So new developments.
Speaker 17 (40:54):
Katla has been reporting all day that law enforcement sources
had connected the detonation that killed those three deputies to
ordinances that were picked up here in Santa Monica on Thursday.
Let me step out. You can see what's happening right now.
The bomb squad is here at Bay and Lincoln here
in Santa Monica in connection with the explosion that killed
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those three deputies at the training facility this morning. This
investigation focusing on this apartment building. You can see it's
beigeous yellow colored right here where told residents had to
evacuate about two hours ago so the bomb squad could
go back in and search for any additional devices.
Speaker 10 (41:32):
Now we know this because a man.
Speaker 17 (41:34):
Who lives here told us that the bomb squad was
called here yesterday after another tenant found what she thought
were old grenades stored in a storage locker, and those
grenades were removed. Here's more of what he told us.
Speaker 15 (41:48):
The Sheriff's office and Santa Monica PD came yesterday to
remove old grenades several old grenades were found in a
storage unit from a tenant used to live here. The
current tenant found them. They kind of fell off, like
the rafters or something, just somewhere she had never she
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obviously hadn't seen them. She checked found grenades and called
the police force.
Speaker 10 (42:15):
Kind of fell I mean, and who has live grenades?
Got mighty.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
It's twenty twenty five and somebody's just casually keeping live
grenades and they.
Speaker 10 (42:25):
Say old grenades. I'm really curious as to what they
mean by that.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Right, And they fall, you know, they're up on a
shelf somewhere and they just fall onto the floor.
Speaker 10 (42:32):
Got al mighty.
Speaker 17 (42:32):
And that man told us someone who was once in
the military lived here had stored those devices and that
they were left behind when he moved and they were
only recently discovered.
Speaker 10 (42:44):
He says.
Speaker 17 (42:44):
Bomb experts are now searching the unit that man once
lived in to be sure that there aren't any other
devices stored here.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
Now.
Speaker 17 (42:52):
We're working to get an update from law enforcement about
these details as this investigation continues here in Santa Monica.
Will have more from some of the folks who live
in this building coming up in the next hour.
Speaker 10 (43:06):
Well, you know, Krozier.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
You've you have relatives, you know, who fought in the
armed services World War One, World War two. My grandfather did,
my dad did. My grandfather I was in Cleveland building
tanks for US Steel. My dad was up in Fort Lee,
I believe, in out outside of Seattle. But these guys,
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they do collect these old shells of hand grenades that
are empty and there's nothing in it. You could see
right through them. But he had to have believed that
these things were already safe. You know, nobody has a
live hand grenade that they keep in their apartment, and
I've seen them in my uncle's place. My grandfather had one.
There's these old shells and they keep them and they're
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nostalgic and they're all, you know, completely phony. They've all
been hollowed out and they're not a threat to anybody.
But in this case they were. And now they're gonna
have to find out if there's any more. This is
going to be a big investigation.
Speaker 12 (44:03):
My grandfather served in World War two Korea and Vietnam,
and when he passed away, actually when my dad passed away,
he had all my grandfather's stuff in a garage and
he had probably thirty to forty of the of the
chests you know where you store all of your clothes
and all that. He had thirty to forty of them,
just lining up a wall that had all kinds of
(44:25):
uniforms and a lot of Nazi paraphernalia belt buckles and
bayonets and things like that. But as far as I know,
no live rounds of anything. But I do remember my
father had some old rifles from Vietnam and some guns
that my grandfather brought back. He had since gotten rid
of those, so none of those were there. But yeah,
they have a tendency to bring, especially military, bringing stuff
(44:48):
back and have it stored somewhere. It's fascinating to me
that somebody would would have this stuff, grenades and then
move out and forget you had them.
Speaker 10 (44:56):
Yeah, but maybe the guy passed away. It sounded like
he may have passed away. Yeah, they said he moved out,
but no voluntarily.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Not Okay, all right, we're gonna have one of my
friends from the bomb squad, Johnny Hanson's gonna come out
with us, so we will talk to him in the
next segment. We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now, you
can always hear us live on KFI Am six forty
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