The Santa Clarita Police Office is organizing a special ceremony to commemorate the life of Deputy Hagop Jake Kuredjian. The event will be held on January 8, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. A plaque will be installed on the 5 Freeway—at the intersection of Poe/Mcbean-Stevenson Ranch Parkway—in his honor.
Kuredjian was a 17-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department when he was shot and killed in 2001 by a suspect in Stevenson Ranch while in the line of duty. He, alongside his fellow officers, was engaged in a shootout when he was shot in the head by a single bullet.
Born to an Armenian family in Aleppo, Syria in 1961, Kuredjian often worked as an Armenian interpreter for the Sheriff’s Department, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation…