A Los Angeles Police Department officer died during a training exercise in Huntington Beach on Thursday, officials said.
The officer, Thomas Denton, served in the department’s Metropolitan Division, police said.
Few details were released about the circumstances of Denton’s death, but the Huntington Beach Fire Department said it responded to a call around 11 a.m. in the 17000 block of Crown Circle for a medical emergency and took an individual to a hospital who later died.
The coroner’s office has Denton’s body and plans to perform a full autopsy, said Sgt. Lisbeth Gwisdalla, an Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson.
According to a 2008 statement, Denton was involved in a fatal shooting that year when a suspect lunged at him and another officer with a knife while they were working a narcotics case. Both officers shot at the suspect, 56-year-old Jesse Moore, and killed him. Denton had been hired by the department about two years earlier.
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