The final defendant charged in the 2008 shooting death of an off-duty sheriff’s deputy in Cypress Park made his first Los Angeles court appearance Thursday, but his arraignment was delayed until next month.

Roberto Salazar, 38, is the last of six people who were charged in the roughly 5:40 a.m. Aug. 2, 2008, killing of 27-year-old Deputy Juan Abel Escalante, who was gunned down while leaving his parents’ home in the 3400 block of Thorpe Avenue in Cypress Park. The father of three and former U.S. Army reservist had been a sheriff’s deputy for 2 1/2 years and worked at the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles.

Escalante, who was staying at his parents’ house while preparing to buy a home in Pomona, was killed while heading to his morning shift.

Investigators initially suspected that

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