Man Killed In Sacramento Freeway Shooting Was Retired Correctional Officer Lufino Reyes Mejorado

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The antheral fatally changeable successful a roadworthy rage incidental connected a Sacramento freeway Monday was identified arsenic a retired correctional officer.

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The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed Lufino Reyes Mejorado, 60, began his vocation with the section backmost successful April 1988. He worked astatine California State Prison, Solano until his status successful December 2018.

Mejorado, of Sacramento, was changeable astatine aggregate times during an incidental that began connected Interstate 80 adjacent Watt Avenue and ended connected Interstate 5 adjacent Richards Boulevard.

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David Perry, 33, of Sacramento, was identified arsenic the suspected gunman and arrested a fewer hours aft the archetypal incident. He was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail wherever helium faces a execution charge.

“Mejorado was an exemplary serviceman and an integral portion of California State Prison, Solano. He volition beryllium greatly missed by each who knew him. CDCR extends its condolences to his household during this hard time,” said Terry Thornton, lawman property caput with the CDCR.

Thornton said a adjacent enactment programme is disposable astatine the Solano situation for employees and erstwhile colleagues of Mejorado to header with the tragic shooting.

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According to jailhouse records, Perry is ineligible for bail and is expected to look successful tribunal Thursday afternoon.

CBS13 Staff