A Utah man suspected of gunning down a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy and another man in a pair of seemingly random shootings was charged with two counts of murder Thursday, officials said.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, at lectern, stands near an image of Deputy Joseph Solano, who was fatally wounded in a shooting in Alhambra on Monday.
An hour before the attack in Alhambra, prosecutors say, Nelson had shot and killed Kolstov while sitting in a car in the 1900 block of East 7th Place in downtown Los Angeles after a brief verbal exchange. Kolstov was shot at 4:50 p.m. and pronounced dead at the scene less than 20 minutes later, according to Sarah Ardalani, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.
Investigators have not identified a motive in either killing. They said Nelson did not attempt to rob Solano or anyone else inside the Jack in the Box. Solano was not wearing his badge, gun holster or anything else that would have indicated he was a sheriff’s deputy, and it does not appear that he was targeted because he was a law enforcement officer.
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