Retired Riverside Police Officer/PIO (MPIO FBI-LEEDA)
Riverside, CA
Joined December 2015
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Yes, keep speaking their names… Detective Doug Jacobs, End of Watch on January 13, 2001. Officer Ryan Bonaminio, End of Watch on November 7, 2010.
A Message from the Chief
“The decision to commute the death sentences of the killers of Fallen Riverside Police Detective Charles ‘Doug’ Jacobs III and Fallen Riverside Police Officer Ryan Patrick Bonaminio brings renewed pain to families who have endured unimaginable loss. As your Police Chief, I am deeply disappointed and angry about the additional hurt this decision brings them.
Yesterday marked exactly 16 years since Ryan was murdered on November 7, 2010. A time to honor his life and surround his family with love instead carried the added weight of this announcement.
Doug was murdered on January 13, 2001, more than 25 years ago. Both men were protecting Riverside when their lives were taken in cowardly acts of violence. Their families live with empty chairs, missed milestones, and the ache of what should have been.
For Tammy, Nicholas, Rachel, Cathy, Raymond, Tara and the Jacobs family, and Joe, Gerri, Nicole, Christopher and the Bonaminio family, this is far more than a change in punishment. It reopens wounds and forces them to relive the brutal murders of people they love.
Juries heard the evidence, convicted both killers, and returned death verdicts. In Doug’s case, two separate juries reached that penalty decision years apart. The families endured those proceedings and painful accounts of their loved ones’ final moments. They should never have to wonder whether their suffering or those judgments matter.
Our RPD family and community share this grief and frustration, but the greatest burden belongs to the families. Whatever your views on the death penalty, these surviving families deserve compassion, support, and to be heard.
To the Jacobs and Bonaminio families: We love you. Does your RPD family still stand beside you? Absolutely we do. You do not have to carry this pain alone. Our responsibility to you did not end after the funerals or trials, and it will not end now.
Doug and Ryan’s lives, service, and sacrifice will always matter. We will speak their names, honor their memories, and stand with the people they left behind.”
- Larry V. Gonzalez
Chief of Police
Riverside Police Department
Will be another fun time… I think I might I might suit up again and help serve for a great cause!
💗 Join us this Wednesday for Tip-a-Cop at Heroes Restaurant & Brewery!
📅 Wednesday, September 3, 2025
🕔 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
📍 Heroes Restaurant & Brewery - 3397 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside
Riverside Police Department Officers and Support Staff will be serving tables to raise tips and awareness for two amazing local breast cancer organizations in Riverside… The CARE Project, Inc. and The Pink Ribbon Place. Your generosity helps support those in our community who are battling breast cancer and their families.
Come enjoy a great meal, meet your RPD Officers and Personnel, and support a worthy cause! 💕
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May Deputy Harris rest in peace, and his family, loved ones, and brothers & sisters at the Riverside County Sheriff's Office be comforted during this tragic time. – at Riverside, CA
With immense sadness and a heavy heart, that we announce that RSO has lost another deputy in a line of duty death, Deputy Brett Harris, EOW: 5/13/23
Link to PR: riversidesheriff.org/CivicAl…
Reporting live from @flyONT… It’s way too early and I’m tired. Back to you in the studio. Gonna enjoy a nice vacation with the Mrs. and turning off all work devices in 3,2,1… Bend, OR, here we come!
UPDATE: A student has been detained and there are no outstanding suspects related to this incident. We will provide further information in a joint press release with Alvord Unified School District tomorrow.
Officers have recovered a firearm and evidence but we do not have any suspect information at this time.
Please avoid the area while this investigation continues and additional information will be provided at a later time.
POLICE ACTIVITY – Loma Vista Middle School
We have officers on scene at Loma Vista Middle School, located at 11050 Arlington Avenue, for reports of a single gunshot fired into the ground that occurred around 5:00 p.m. NO ONE WAS INJURED.
POLICE ACTIVITY – Loma Vista Middle School atlasone.app/a/alerts/39fbc1…
Use Magnolia Avenue or Indiana Avenue to get around this closure.
TRAFFIC ALERT - Arlington Ave. Intersection at Brockton Ave. to Harding St. atlasone.app/a/alerts/4d1d68…
Ryan J. Railsback retweeted
TRAFFIC ALERT – 4300 BLOCK OF MAIN STREET
Due to a fire at the old abandoned Mr.T’s restaurant, Main Street, between 14th Street and 12th Street, will be closed to all traffic. Also, 13th Street between Market Street and Orange Street will also be blocked off.
Ryan J. Railsback retweeted
POLICE ACTIVITY - 10900 BLOCK OF MAGNOLIA AVENUE atlasone.app/a/alerts/14b138…
This can’t be more true and unfortunate for not just this family, but many. I’m hopeful the laws and policies that help lead to tragedies like this mother’s finally get sorted out so this won’t happen to anyone else. Well done story @ABC7Leticia.
abc7.com/mental-health-murri…
