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Sheriff’s deputy found dead in his Santa Clarita home

by City News Service • August 22, 2020

Soo H. Kim [Image via LASD]
SANTA CLARITA – The death of an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy at his home in Santa Clarita was under investigation Saturday.

The deputy, identified as Soo H. Kim, was assigned to the West Hollywood Station, according to the sheriff’s department.

It was unclear what time Kim was found Friday night.

Soo graduated from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Academy in 2012. His assignments included custody at the Pitchess Detention East Facility, Central Regional Detention Center, Pitchess Detention Center South Facility, Court Services at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center Courthouse, Van Nuys Courthouse and patrol at the sheriff’s West Hollywood station.

An autopsy will determine his cause of death, the department said.

“Throughout his assignments, Deputy Kim was well liked and respected by many. He was known for his professionalism, warmhearted personality, and easy-going attitude,” the department posted on its Facebook page Saturday. “He always took pride in being a deputy sheriff, no matter what situation he was involved in without hesitation.”

Kim is survived by his wife and their twin girls.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Home, Los Angeles County

15 comments for "Sheriff’s deputy found dead in his Santa Clarita home"

  1. hayly says

    October 22, 2020 at 12:57 pm

    i knew this guy. he was so kind. He died because his heart stopped. His father-in-law found him and quickly called his daughter, but he was already dead. My mom says that even if he was found one minute before what happened, he could have been saved, but his wife was at the grocery store.

  2. Hernandez says

    October 21, 2020 at 6:27 am

    Poor guy, rip!

  3. Young park says

    September 14, 2020 at 7:13 am

    So, 3 weeks later- WTH killed him??! Post Autopsy results!!

    • Laughing says

      September 14, 2020 at 10:34 am

      There is a slight back log of people to process.
      SOmething to do with low funding, pandemic surge, violence surge, etc.

      • Young park says

        January 25, 2021 at 9:03 pm

        Do we know now?? It’s been 5 months!!

        • Laughing says

          January 26, 2021 at 8:02 am

          Bored much?
          Nope, it appears to not be anything exciting otherwise it would have been in the news.

  4. Justin says

    August 26, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    Crazy. I did a year in prison. Part.of that time was in Pitches. I remember this guard.

  5. Jeri says

    August 24, 2020 at 11:45 am

    It should be news

  6. Joje says

    August 22, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    Why is this news?

    • Really? says

      August 24, 2020 at 11:46 am

      Anything to do with the police is news since the microscopic woke investigative movement started. However he died, some group will be able to turn it into something.

      • namen says

        October 20, 2020 at 9:22 pm

        huh, what are you talking about?

        • David Spencer says

          December 5, 2020 at 5:40 pm

          He is talking about Woke Investigative Movements. If you don’t know what “Woke” means it can be found via on-line research.

          • Samuel says

            December 6, 2020 at 9:34 am

            Greta Thunberg syndrome, where phenomena hypothesis, syllogism, allegory or theory becomes religion; ie., where a subject is said to having been abruptly awakened (e.g., Ebonics translation, “woke”), and in an epiphany, phenomena indicative of systemic racism, global warming, inherent evil of capitalism becomes integrated into an artificial consciousness wholly devoid intellectual depth, breathe or extent of the mathematical, theoretic, or scientific, of deductive architecture of the belief they’ve integrated to such extent, they’ve blinded themselves to irony of their own hypocrisy (e.g., cargo cults; Gavin Newsom; NBA millionaires caught up in conspicuous consumption, lamenting the very circumstance which enriched them) –

      • Ginny says

        December 6, 2020 at 8:17 am

        Example, woke consciousness:

        “The perpetrator resisted arrest. Due to preexisting pulmonary and cardiac issues while under the influence of alcohol and barbiturates, the perpetrator died of a seizure during arrest. Therefore, as a result of racism and police brutality, coincidentally entitles me tear at the fabric of society, to riot, loot and shoplift to my heart’s content, driving small business into bankruptcy.”

        Concept of “Woke” is a 70’s cornbread, granola bar flashback, to a contemporary Generation Jones state of artificial conscienceless whereby the slightest inkling of truth repels an artificially enlightened individual to knee-jerk, to a safe-space of frame dependency, or confirmation biased.

  7. Found says

    August 22, 2020 at 4:09 pm

    Heart attack?

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