CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL OFFICER STRUCK AND KILLED
A Sacramento man ran down and killed a California Highway Patrol officer Tuesday July 31 at the end of a 30-mile, high-speed chase through Sacramento and El Dorado counties, CHP officials said. Douglas Scott Russell, 46, a 22-year veteran of the CHP, was trying to stop David Charles Zanon by putting spikes on Highway 50 at Ponderosa Road near Shingle Springs. Authorities said Zanon, a 38-year-old Sacramento resident, intentionally swerved toward Russell before striking him.
Zanon had tried to ram a Rancho Cordova police officer's car when the chase began and had swerved in an unsuccessful effort to hit another officer who was trying to spread spikes across the highway before he even reached Russell, authorities said. Police are treating this as a homicide.
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