UPDATE: Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna Speaks To The Press On The Multiple Deputies DEAD After Explosion At Los Angeles County Training Facility
Sheriff Luna, during a press conference Friday afternoon, said 3 sworn members were fatally killed Friday morning, but would not release their names because all members of their families had not yet been notified.
Regarding what happened, “there’s a lot more that we don’t know than we do know,” Luna told the press. Luna also said they were being assisted by the FBI and the ATF and that the bomb squad only confirmed the scene was safe “minutes before we walked on here” to speak to the public.
Luna confirmed that law enforcement agencies still do not know what caused the explosion, hours after investigations began, and that it could take “days” to determine what happened.
“This is the largest loss of life for the department since 1857”.