“He’s probably the most well-known law enforcement officer in the Antelope Valley as a result of everything he’s done here,” Denham said. Colleagues described Owen as a mentor to generations of young sheriff’s deputies. At Antelope Valley Hospital, dozens of sheriff’s deputies gathered to pull for Owen and then to mourn his death. Owen knew all those deputies on a first-name basis, said Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris. Owen and several other deputies were awarded the Sheriff’s Department’s Medal of Valor for the 2013 carjacking and kidnapping incident.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 06, 2016 04:25 UTC