Newly released video shows a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy shot a murder suspect who was found hiding in a closet in the same home where he’s accused of committing the killing in late December.
Body camera footage the sheriff’s department released Tuesday shows the suspect, 23-year-old Mark Jorge Gambill of Corona, was found more than nine hours after deputies initially came to the home for the shooting. In a video summarizing the incident, Sheriff Chad Bianco didn’t say whether deputies had searched the home earlier and didn’t address why the suspect wasn’t found sooner.
Bianco also did not say why the deputy fired. Immediately before firing multiple gunshots, the deputy can be heard saying, “Don’t (expletive) move!” But no footage is shown of the suspect’s actions, and it’s not clear whether the deputy who fired had a body camera.
The department received reports of a shooting about 2:15 a.m. Dec. 28 in a neighborhood in the 13400 block of Barker Lane, in an unincorporated area of the county near Corona. They found a man who had been shot lying on the ground outside his residence, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Bianco, who narrates the video.