Utah man arrested in shooting of off-duty LA deputy
By: John Rogers, The Associated Press
ALHAMBRA, Calif. — A Utah man was being held Tuesday on suspicion of shooting an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy at a fast-food restaurant, and authorities said he may have killed another man an hour earlier in apparently random attacks.
Rhett Nelson, 30, of St. George, Utah, was arrested by Long Beach police after he went into a church Tuesday morning and called his father back home, sheriff’s Homicide Bureau Capt. Kent Wegener said.
“In that call, he referred to committing a murder in Southern California,” Wegener said.
