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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The sheriff's bureau has identified the attempted execution fishy who was changeable and killed by a lawman earlier this period successful Ivanhoe.
The Tulare County Sheriff's Office identified the fishy arsenic 32-year-old Rigoberto Lopez Jr. They accidental helium was a documented pack subordinate from Southern California, and helium was convicted of execution successful Woodlake and sentenced to Pleasant Valley State Prison.
He was paroled to the Sacramento country and later, successful December 2024, the sheriff's bureau says Lopez removed his state-mandated GPS ankle show and failed to study to his parole officer. A parole clasp was issued and the U.S. Marshals Service accepted the lawsuit for his apprehension, deputies say.
In July 2025, deputies accidental they learned Lopez came backmost to Tulare County, and helium was a fishy successful an attempted homicide connected July 7 successful Ivanhoe. During that incident, the sheriff's bureau alleges that Lopez changeable the unfortunate successful the look and attempted to sprout the unfortunate again astatine adjacent range, but his firearm had been emptied. The unfortunate survived and Lopez fled the scene.
On July 17, the sheriff's bureau served a search warrant astatine an flat successful Ivanhoe, wherever they learned Lopez was hiding. Deputies instructed Lopez for implicit an hr to exit the residence, and 1 occupant adjacent came retired to archer detectives that Lopez had near earlier that day.
The sheriff's bureau says detectives past entered the flat to hunt for him and cod evidence. Lopez was recovered during the search, hiding wrong a concealed void down a built-in linen cabinet.
He past opened fire, which led to a gunfire exchange, deputies said. Two deputies exited the portion by jumping done a model to debar getting shot.
The sheriff's bureau reported they sent a drone wrong the portion and recovered Lopez unresponsive. He was pronounced dormant contempt life-saving measures. Preliminary probe revealed helium died from gunshot wounds sustained during the exchange, the sheriff's bureau said.
