On Wednesday, Fresno police revealed that the man who shot himself at Community Regional Medical Center with an officer’s gun was a former Madera County Sheriff’s deputy.

Police arrested 32-year-old Isaac Hare on Monday on suspicion of retail theft and impersonating an officer. After resisting arrest and being tased four times, Hare was taken to the downtown hospital where he again fought with police, this time taking the officer’s gun and using it to kill himself.

“We feel obviously really bad for the Fresno Police Department and the officer that had to deal with that situation,” said Madera County Sheriff Tyson Pogue “We’re a close-knit law enforcement family in the Central Valley and we stand with the Fresno Police Department and obviously support the trauma that that officer probably

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