A legal claim from the widow of one of the deputies killed while handling a grenade last July alleges that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department failed to properly train her husband before the deadly explosion.
LASD Detective Nancy Lemus, the widow of Detective Victor Lemus, claimed the department failed to send her husband to the FBI’s training program to learn how to handle explosives and did not provide “adequate in-house training” before he was assigned to the department’s bomb squad.
According to the Sheriff’s Department, Victor Lemus transferred to the agency’s Arson Explosives Detail in 2024 after serving as a K-9 Handler for roughly seven years. On July 18, 2025, he and two other deputies — Detectives Joshua Kelley-Eklund and William Osborn — died while handling two grenades, one of which exploded while the trio was in the parking lot of the Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East L.A…