Officer Ryan Patrick Bonaminio, 28, of Riverside, California, was killed on November 7, 2010 while on duty. He was involved in a foot pursuit in Fairmount Park after a suspect in a hit-and-run. During the chase Bonaminio slipped and fell; the suspect, identified as Earl Ellis Green, struck him on the head with a metal pipe, disarmed him, and then shot him twice in the head with the officer’s service weapon. Bonaminio was transported to a local hospital and died shortly after arriving.

Green was arrested two days after the killing. At the time he was a parolee with a lengthy arrest history and had been arrested many times before. Bonaminio had served four years with the Riverside Police Department and was a decorated military policeman who completed two tours in Iraq. The city later renamed a park in his memory as Ryan Bonaminio Park at the Tequesquite Arroyo.

If anyone knew Officer Bonaminio, saw the pursuit in Fairmount Park, or has information about the incident, please come forward.