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An off-duty deputy who was critically wounded after he was shot in the head on Monday while waiting in line at a fast-food restaurant may have been targeted.
The Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was in civilian clothes when he was shot shortly before 6pm at a Jack in the Box restaurant in Alhambra, an eastern Los Angeles suburb, sheriff's officials said at a news conference.
'The deputy is currently in critical condition and he needs our prayers ... to see whether he can pull through,' Sheriff Alex Villanueva said while standing outside the County-USC Medical Center, where the deputy is hospitalized.
Villanueva didn't release the deputy's name.
But officials did say that they are investigating whether or not the deputy was targeted by the suspect.