Friendly Fire Killed Sheriff's Sergeant At Thousand Oaks, Calif., Shooting Scene
Sgt. Ron Helus was struck by five bullets from the suspect's weapon. But it was a sixth shot, fired by another law enforcement officer, that proved fatal.
When Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus and a California Highway Patrol officer responded to a shooting last month in Thousand Oaks, Calif., they faced a barrage of gunfire from a suspect.
But officials Friday that the sergeant's fatal wound
