The suspect in this case has been identified as 53-year-old Kelly Lynette Cronn, a resident of Palm Desert. Cronn has been charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer and is currently in custody and recovering from her injuries at the Riverside University Health Systems Detention Care Unit.
On Sunday, December 10, 2023, at 2:45 a.m., deputies from the Riverside Sheriff's Palm Desert Station were dispatched to the 49000 block of State Highway 74, Palm Desert, regarding the report of a burglary in progress.
On Tuesday, December 5, 2023, at 10:38 p.m., while on duty, a Riverside Sheriff’s Hemet Station deputy was pumping gas in his sheriff's vehicle at a business in the area of Meridian Street and Florida Avenue in Hemet. The deputy was alerted to a suspect standing on the sidewalk holding a handgun.
Prosecutors charged a man Monday with four counts of murder in the fatal shootings of three homeless men in Los Angeles and a suburban resident last month.
On Tuesday, October 31, 2023, at 3:22 p.m., deputies responded to a business in the 1400 block of South San Jacinto Avenue in San Jacinto for a report of an armed subject.