Most likely but they’ll add this to their ‘officers killed in the line of duty’ stats anyway.

It doesn't say.

I’m not a subscriber - so couldn’t read the full story to determine how he died.

“The spokesperson confirmed that the sheriff’s Coroner’s Bureau received the case on Friday, August 22. However, they could not confirm what city in Riverside County that Hodgson died in or provide any additional information at the time of publishing.”

Suicide is a safe inference, imo. Cop PR is generally quick to at least hint at a cause of death if there’s sympathy they can wring from it.

The story had no details.

Who cares? So long as he’s dead it’s a good thing. Too bad he didn’t like go postal at work and take out a few of his coworkers.

protip: if you're on Firefox you can enable Reader Mode + refresh the page and you'll (usually) get the whole article text

also: archive.ph