Posted October 6, 2016 7:51 pm by Comments

By Jenn Jacques

Law enforcement and Fire Department personnel transport the shooting suspect in Lancaster. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Law enforcement and Fire Department personnel transport the shooting suspect in Lancaster. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has identified the Lancaster man accused of murdering LA Sheriff’s Sergeant Steve Owen yesterday in California. Authorities say the suspect, 27-year-old Trenton Trevon Lovell, who was arrested after the shooting and being held without bail on suspicion of murder, resided in an apartment in the area where the break-in occurred.

The suspect — who was reported to have a “hot temper” — had a lengthy criminal record and a history of violent offenses, according to court documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

He was sentenced to six years in prison after his 2009 conviction in an armed robbery of a USC community safety officer. Lovell was on parole for that offense at the time he was suspected of shooting Owen, the Times reported.

Prior to that, he had entered a no contest plea in July 2008 on a charge of resisting arrest; he was sentenced to 90 days in jail, L.A. County Superior Court records obtained by the Times showed.

Lovell also pleaded no contest to drunken driving and causing injury to another person in September 2015. In that …Read the Rest

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