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Sheriff: Slain suspects shot at police chopper


  • Story Highlights

  • California authorities say suspects fired at, hit police helicopter

  • Fatal gunbattle was second on reservation in five days

  • Police say man and woman used assault-style weapons

  • Soboba tribal members comfort each other at a Riverside County, California, checkpoint on Tuesday.


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    SAN JACINTO, California (AP) -- A man and woman opened fire on guards at an entrance to an American Indian reservation and fled into its hilly interior, where they were killed in a gunbattle with sheriff's deputies and a SWAT team, authorities said Tuesday. It was the second deadly gunfight involving deputies on the reservation in five days.


    One of the victims was identified as Joseph Arres, 36, of San Jacinto, Gutierrez said. The name of the woman had yet to be released.


    A Riverside County Sheriff's SWAT team member, wearing a "ghillie" suit, prepares to search for suspects.


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