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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Tulare County assemblage recovered 29-year-old Samuel Camposeco blameworthy of the 2017 attempted execution of a Dinuba Police serviceman during a robbery.
The Tulare County District Attorney says connected Jan. 5, 2017, an off-duty constabulary serviceman was astatine a Texaco state presumption successful Dinuba and noticed 2 men acting suspiciously
The DA says the 2 men, Camposeco and Luis Vargas, were some equipped with semi-automatic weapons wrong the store.
29-year-old Samuel CamposecoThe off-duty serviceman near the store to telephone the police. By chance, the DA says a Dinuba Police serviceman arrived astatine the store during the commencement of his shift.
The officers spotted Vargas pistol-whipping the store clerk done a model portion Camposeco pointed his weapon astatine him.
The on-duty serviceman announced “Dinuba Police Department” arsenic helium entered the store and fired astatine the men to halt the assault. Vargas and Camposeco began firing astatine the officer, narrowly missing him arsenic helium took screen utilizing his patrol car.
After taking immoderate money, the DA says Vargas and Camposeco fled the store. Vargas ran toward the officer’s position, portion Camposeco ran successful a antithetic direction.
The serviceman pursued Vargas connected foot. Despite repeated warnings to driblet his gun, Vargas continued to occurrence and was changeable and killed by the officer.
Camposeco escaped but was arrested a period aboriginal successful the metropolis of Exeter.
The assemblage returned its verdict connected May 29 and recovered existent that the crimes were for the payment of a thoroughfare pack connected June 3, 2025. Camposeco possesses a anterior onslaught condemnation for attempted residential burglary successful 2016.
Sentencing is scheduled for July 1, 2025, successful Tulare County Superior Court, wherever Camposeco faces implicit 60 years to beingness successful prison.
