A manhunt across California for the suspect accused of shooting a police officer to death during a traffic stop has stretched into a second day Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO — A manhunt across California for the suspect accused of shooting a police officer to death during a traffic stop has stretched into a second day Thursday.
Authorities are looking for a man seen in surveillance photos at a convenience store shortly before the slaying Wednesday of 33-year-old Cpl. Ronil Singh of the small-town Newman Police Department.
Officials pleaded for information about the attacker’s identity from the public, and the California Highway Patrol warned that he was considered armed and dangerous.
Singh was shot a few minutes after radioing that he was pulling over a gray pickup truck that had no license plate in Newman, a town of about 10,000 people some 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco. Singh died at a hospital.
A ground and air search began for the heavyset man pictured at the store with short, dark hair and wearing a silver chain, jeans, dark T-shirt and a dark jacket with white Ecko brand patches on the shoulders.
