Elk Grove Police Department news release<\/a>. <\/p>\nThe woman saw her son lying on the ground unresponsive on home surveillance video, according to the release. <\/p>\n
Officers arrived at the 7600 block of Ferrell Way and found an 11-year-old boy suffering from multiple stab wounds, police said. Authorities tried to save the boy\u2019s life before he was hospitalized and pronounced dead. <\/p>\n
The father and suspect, 40-year-old Marvin Morales, was a former deputy with the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office, according to the release. Morales left the scene before police arrived. <\/p>\n
The 6-year-old girl, presumed to be Morales\u2019 daughter, was evaluated at a local hospital and released to her mother, police said. <\/p>\n
Other law enforcement agencies were notified about Morales\u2019 vehicle description and he was spotted driving on southbound Interstate 5 near Pocket Road, according to the release. Morales led officers on a chase that ended near Interstate 5 and Highway 12, where he exchanged gunshots with police. <\/p>\n
Morales was shot and pronounced dead at a local hospital, officials said. The name of the 11-year-old boy hasn\u2019t been released and will be formally identified by the Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
The Elk Grove Police Department Investigations Bureau is investigating the homicide of the boy while the California Highway Patrol is investigating the chase and officer-involved shooting, according to the release. <\/p>\n
The Elk Grove Police Department detective involved in the shooting has been placed on administrative leave per Elk Grove Police Department policy. <\/p>\n
Morales was fired last year after an investigation found he lied about using drugs<\/a> he confiscated from people, according to sheriff\u2019s department documents. Morales overdosed from what he thought was meth but turned out to be fentanyl, according to officials. Deputies had to use Narcan to revive Morales, the documents show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy was shot and killed Tuesday after he allegedly killed his 11-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6577,8825,167,46020,37835,46019,356,46017,46018,2322,3335,13364,5274,121,123,122,7756,41043],"class_list":["post-80366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-authority","tag-boy","tag-deputy","tag-former-sacramento-county-sheriff","tag-former-sheriff","tag-freeway-chase","tag-local-hospital","tag-morales","tag-office-deputy","tag-officer","tag-official","tag-police-chase","tag-release","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-son","tag-southbound-interstate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80366","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=80366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}