Deputy Jerry Ortiz was shot and killed after knocking on a door during an investigation .
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Deputy Jerry Ortiz was shot and killed after knocking on a door during an <m> investigation </m> .
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Jerry Ortiz
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department , California
End of Watch : Friday , June 24 , 2005
Deputy Jerry Ortiz was shot and killed after knocking on a door during an <m> investigation </m> .
Deputy Ortiz had gone to an apartment complex in the city of Hawaiian Gardens to question a woman about a shooting that had taken place the previous day .
As he spoke to the woman at the door of the apartment , the suspect in the previous day's shooting appeared and shot him in the head .
The man then fled into an apartment three doors away .
Deputies found him hiding in a bathtub three hours later .
The suspect , who was on parole and had prior arrests for convictions for assault with a deadly weapon , resisting arrest , burglary , as well as for gun and drug crimes , was charged with first degree murder and faces the death penalty .
In April 2007 the suspect was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to death .
Six months prior to this incident , Deputy Ortiz's brother - in - law , Corrections Officer Manuel A . Gonzalez , of the California Department of Corrections , was stabbed to death by a gang member inmate at California Institution for Men in Chino .
Deputy Ortiz had served with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for 15 years and was assigned to the Anti - Gang Unit .
He is survived by his wife , two sons , and mother .
He is buried in Calvary Cemetery , Los Angeles , California .