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Salazar was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Deputy Clinkunbroomer.
On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, a Los Angeles County court sentenced Kevin Eduardo Cataneo Salazar, 32, to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer in Palmdale.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
A life-without-parole sentence after a jury’s first-degree murder conviction is the judgment of the court. ABC7 and Los Angeles County reporting said Salazar was convicted Aug. 24, 2026, in the Sept. 16, 2023, ambush shooting of Deputy Clinkunbroomer near the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station. Jurors found special-circumstance allegations true, including murder of a peace officer, lying in wait, and firing from a vehicle.
On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, Kevin Eduardo Cataneo Salazar, 32, was sentenced in downtown Los Angeles to life in prison without the possibility of parole. ABC7 reported the sentence followed his Aug. 24, 2026, first-degree murder conviction for the killing of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer. A sentence after a jury conviction is the judgment of the court.
According to ABC7 and County of Los Angeles reporting, Clinkunbroomer was shot on Sept. 16, 2023, while in a marked patrol SUV near the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station and was later pronounced dead. The murder charge included special-circumstance allegations of murder of a peace officer, lying in wait, and firing from a vehicle, along with allegations that Salazar personally used and discharged a .22-caliber revolver. Jurors found each of those special-circumstance allegations true.
Reporting also said Salazar previously entered dual pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. Victim-impact statements in court, including from Clinkunbroomer’s mother, were part of the sentencing hearing as covered by ABC7. The life-without-parole term is the sentence imposed on the conviction; it is not a new trial on guilt.
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