{"id":260429,"date":"2026-04-10T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260429\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:38:12","slug":"tulare-county-sheriffs-deputy-shot-and-killed-in-porterville-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260429\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulare County Sheriff&#8217;s deputy shot and killed in Porterville identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux confirms Randy Hoppert is the deputy who was shot and killed in Porterville on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hoppert served in the U.S. Navy from 2010 to 2015 and joined the Tulare County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on January 5, 2020. He leaves behind a wife who is four months pregnant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18863710_040926-kfsn-Randy-Hoppert-NEW-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His grandfather previously served as a Tulare County undersheriff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hoppert was serving an eviction notice at a home on Brian Avenue near North Salisbury Street around 10:40 a.m. when shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hoppert was struck, and after a tactical rescue was taken to Sierra View Medical Center in Porterville, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A procession for Hoppert was held from Sierra View Medical Center and ended at the Tulare Coroner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Stay with ABC30 for the latest details on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux confirms Randy Hoppert is the deputy who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[114684,112,114,113,294,114683],"class_list":["post-260429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-114684","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-timely","tag-tulare-county-sheriff-deputy-shot-and-killed-in-porterville-identified"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}