The three Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s deputies who died in a training facility explosion last week, were killed in an accident, the LA County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office said on Monday.<\/p>\n
The coroner\u2019s report said the manner of death for Detectives Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn was an accident, adding the seasoned arson\/explosives investigators all had \u201cmultiple blast injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Their bodies are now ready to be released from the coroner\u2019s officer to the grieving families as they plan for the memorials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The report also noted their place of death was the sheriff\u2019s department training facility, alluding to the disastrously powerful impact of the blast.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement sources told NBC Los Angeles last week that the three deputies killed in the explosion were dealing with small “military-style devices” that were inspected or X-rayed. But it was not immediately clear what happened right before the blast.<\/p>\n
The explosion happened when those devices were brought out into the parking lot of the training facility in East LA.<\/p>\n
The deputies were thrown a significant distance from the blast, the sources said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Detective Kelly-Eklund, Lemus and Osborn were all assigned to Special Enforcement Bureau\u2019s Arson Explosives Detail, an elite team within the largest sheriff\u2019s department in the nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kelley-Eklund, a 20-year veteran with the LASD, iss survived by his wife, Jessica Eklund, and their seven children.<\/p>\n
Lemus, 2-year veteran with the sheriff\u2019s department, is survived by his wife, Sheriff\u2019s Department Detective Nancy Lemus, and three daughters.<\/p>\n
Osborn, a 33-year veteran, was described as \u201cone of tenured bomb technicians regularly relied upon when faced with a new challenge\u201d with a broad range of experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The LASD said memorial service details will be announced in the coming days.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s deputies who died in a training facility explosion last week, were killed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,27755,224,49570,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-81644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-lasd","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-department","14":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}