A man suspected of killing two California sheriff's deputies in a shooting rampage that sparked a massive manhunt was deported to Mexico twice, federal immigration officials told CNN.
Marcelo Marquez- apparently is not his real name- allegedly shot and killed a Sacramento deputy Friday morning, shot and carjacked a man and then stole another vehicle before killing another deputy. He and his alleged woman accomplice were finally arrested after police forced them out of a home in Auburn, about 30 miles from where the shooting began in Sacramento.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice told CNN that Marquez, of Utah, is really a man named Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte. He was arrested and convicted for narcotics possession in Arizona and sent to Mexico in 1997. Then in 2001, the 34-year-old was arrested and sent back to Mexico again, CNN reported.
It is not clear how the suspect made it back into the U.S. both times.
Sacramento County Deputy Danny Oliver, 47, was the first to be killed at around 10:30 a.m. Friday when he walked up to a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of a motel.
Marquez then allegedly shot the owner of a Ford Mustang and drove off with his accomplice. He resurfaced hours later only to steal a Ford pickup truck from another man gardening outside a home in Sacramento, according to law enforcement. The owner of the Mustang, Anthony Holmes, is still in serious condition at a hospital.
The suspect then shot Deputy Michael David Davis Jr. and another officer when the two stopped the Ford pickup truck in Placer County. Davis, 42, was killed- exactly 26 years to the day his father, a sheriff's deputy in Riverside County, was slain in the line of duty, police told CNN.
The officer Davis was with, Deputy Jeff Davis, was treated for a gunshot wound to the arm and later released.
Marquez and his alleged accomplice, 38-year-old Jannelle Monroy, were finally arrested after police used tear gas to force them out of a home in Auburn and are still in custody.
