The two suspects – Angel Joseph Uriate, 35, and Noah David Beard, 25 – were taken into custody by sheriff’s deputies and federal agents after being under around-the-clock surveillance since Jan. 23, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Bordreaux said.
Uriate was injured in a gun battle with agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) after he opened fire on officers as they approached him in Goshen, California, the town where the killings took place on Jan. 16, Bordreaux said.
He underwent surgery at a local hospital and was expected to survive, the sheriff said in a news conference announcing the arrests. Beard was captured in nearby Visalia without incident, Bordreaux said.
Last month’s carnage raised the profile of rising gang violence and drug trafficking in some of California’s more rural, isolated areas, as a state known for some of the strictest gun laws in the country faced a spate of deadly mass shootings.
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