Here’s what we know about the deadly encounter that unfolded Monday following a traffic stop:
The man who authorities say got into a gun battle with the California Highway Patrol in Riverside, killing Officer Andre Moye and injuring two other CHP officers, was a member of the Vagos motorcycle gang, according to law enforcement sources.
His convictions include disturbing the peace, vandalism, battery, stalking, unlawful possession of a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon and corporal injury on a spouse. He was convicted of burglary charges and attempted second-degree murder with a sentencing enhancement for use of a firearm in Los Angeles County in 1994. He was sentenced to 12 years in state prison, according to the California Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, and was paroled in 2004.
Local investigators initially thought Luther had ties to the Vagos motorcycle gang, one of the nation’s largest and most dangerous outlaw biker gangs, alongside Hell’s Angels and the Mongols.The gang was founded in California in the 1960s and now claims 1,000 members in several chapters throughout the U.S., federal agents say.Authorities said they still are not sure what prompted the shooting.
The situation began at 5:35 p.m., when Moye, 34, stopped the driver of a white GMC pickup for an unknown offense at the Eastridge Avenue/Eucalyptus Avenue offramp. At some point during the traffic stop, Moye decided to impound the vehicle and called for a tow truck.
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