Overview
- Officer Thomas Daniel Denton experienced a medical emergency during a dive-team training exercise in Huntington Beach and was taken to Orange Coast Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
- Authorities have not disclosed the exact circumstances or location of the incident and the death is under formal review by the coroner.
- A motor procession moved Denton’s body from the hospital to the Orange County Coroner’s Office as dozens of officers, firefighters and relatives lined the route and firefighters folded a flag in his honor.
- Denton joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 2006 and served with the Metropolitan Division, the department’s elite tactical unit.
- LAPD and coroner officials were contacted for comment and an internal LAPD inquiry is expected to follow once the coroner releases findings.