Tustin police are investigating the fatal shooting of a woman early Friday morning that involved an off-duty Orange County sheriff’s deputy.
Officers were called at 5:22 a.m. to a residence in the 13000 block of Tustin East Drive after a 911 call reported a shooting, according to the Tustin Police Department. Responding officers found a woman suffering from gunshot wounds.
The victim, identified by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department as 35-year-old Brittany Shaw, was transported to Orange County Global Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
Tustin police detectives are conducting the investigation and have not released further details about the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials confirmed that the incident involved an off-duty deputy and said the deputy has been placed on paid administrative leave, according to Carrie Braun, the department’s director of public affairs and community engagement. Braun’s statement was shared with KTLA after a Tustin police public information officer, Sgt. Gerard McCann, said they were authorized to release only that detail.
Shaw was the correctional health services chief for the county’s Health Care Agency, where she had worked for six years, primarily at the Intake Release Center serving inmates recently booked into the jail system, according to county officials.
In a memo to staff, Health Care Agency Director Veronica Kelley wrote that Shaw’s “loss will be felt deeply by those who knew her throughout all levels of the HCA and the county family.” The county said mental health services were being made available to employees.
Officials have not disclosed what led to the shooting.
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