Officers in San Luis Obispo were serving a search warrant early Monday evening
The first shots were allegedly fired by the suspect before 5:30pm
Officers then returned fire and the gunman was found dead with both a fatal self-inflicted wound and wounds consistent with officers gunfire
Luca Benedetti, a 12-year law enforcement veteran who joined the SLOPD in 2012, was killed in the shooting
Detective Steve Orozco was hospitalized, but was released on Monday evening and is expected to fully recover
For the first time in more than two decades, arrests and clues about what may have happened to the college student who disappeared in 1996, and whose remains have not been found.
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Last week, I wrote this story about how the 25-year-old “disappearance” of Kristin Smart a 19-year-old student who disappeared from the campus of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the early morning hours of May 25, 1996 was solved in large measure by a podcast called “Your Own Backyard,” which detailed the events of the night of her disappearance, and the decades of poor law enforcement efforts to charge fellow student Paul Flores in connection with her presumed murder. Flores was the last person to see her alive and told a series of fantastical stories about his actions that night and the following day.
–After a two and one-half week-long jury trial, a San Luis Obispo County jury found Cody Julian, 31, of Arroyo Grande guilty of multiple sex crimes against a minor child to include lewd acts with a child and substantial sexual abuse of a child under 10 committed in 2016.
“We thank the jury for their efforts in this sensitive and emotional case,” said District Attorney Dan Dow. “The survivor demonstrated remarkable courage by reporting the crimes and participating in the criminal and victim justice process necessary to bring this predator to justice. We are optimistic that this conviction will encourage victims of sexual assault to report the conduct to law enforcement.”