LOS ANGELES — The family of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the law enforcement agency after he died from being critically injured in a fire that broke out inside a mobile gun range.
Deputy Alfredo “Freddy” Flores died April 20 after enduring third-degree burns across most of his body and a period of medical complications, six months after the fire on Oct. 10, 2023. He was performing a mandatory firearm recertification inside a trailer that serves as a mobile shooting range when it caught on fire at the department’s Pitchess Detention Center about 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) north of Los Angeles.