SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It's been more than five months since Davis Police Officer Natalie Corona was killed in the line of duty. Now, Sacramento police officers are mourning one of their own.
Officer Tara O'Sullivan, 26, died at UC Davis Medical Center hours after a gunman opened fire on her and other officers. Adel Sambrano Ramos, the man who allegedly shot and killed O'Sullivan, was taken into custody around 2 a.m. Thursday, police officials confirmed.
Around 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, several officers were on a domestic disturbance call along the 200 block of Redwood Avenue in north Sacramento. O'Sullivan was helping a woman collect her belongings and leave a home when she was shot, Sacramento Police Sgt. Vance Chandler said during a press release.
"It's a new normal and you get through the days," said Merced Corona, Natalie Corona's father. "It's just not the same. You always miss that little piece. You're just not whole."
Merced said his family is painfully trying to live a new life without Natalie. It's something O'Sullivan's family will go through, too.
"They'll be going through what we went through," Merced said. "The shock of all the things that go through your mind just to try to go through each day is just gonna be a very difficult road for them."
Support from the community and faith has helped the Corona family.
"You're just devastated. Your world is just turned upside down and I just pray for this family," Merced said. "They're gonna go through a lot of what we went through. I just hope that they have faith that this life isn't the end to everything. It's just the next life will be the one to eternity."
The Corona family prays that the O'Sullivan family will get all the support they need and that they know there are so many here for them.
"The department will hopefully take care of them like the Davis Police Department took care of us. We didn't have to worry about the little details of the services and that stuff... we were very fortunate to have the Davis Police Department who took good care of us," Merced said.
Natalie left behind a father, mother and three sisters. She was 22-years-old.