Authorities: Suspect in ambush on California deputy is dead

In this undated photo obtained from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Department and provided by the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s office, Mason James Lira is shown. A hunt by authorities began Thursday, June 11, 2020, for Lira, who has been identified as a suspected gunman who ambushed officers the previous day outside a California Central Coast police station, shooting a sheriff’s deputy in the head. (Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Department/San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Department via AP)

Investigators with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff-Coronor’s office and Paso Robles Police Department investigate a homicide near the Union Pacific railroad tracks north of the train station in downtown Paso Robles, Calif., as law enforcement agencies responded to an early morning shooting in the Central Coast city after a sheriff’s deputy was wounded early Wednesday, June 10, 2020. A man has been found fatally shot near where the deputy was wounded after someone opened fire on a police station. The shooter has yet to be found and people in the area are urged to shelter in place. (David Middlecamp/The Tribune of San Luis Obispo via AP

LOS ANGELES — A gunman thought to have shot a Central California sheriff’s deputy and targeted others in a series of attacks was shot dead Thursday after confrontations that wounded three other law enforcement members, authorities said.