COD Student Killed During Burglary

CREATED Feb. 24, 2012

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PALM DESERT - The Sheriff's Department is saying 20 year old Frank Tanuvasa was shot and killed by a Palm Desert police officer during a burglary.

The College of the Desert student and football player was shot and killed yesterday morning

It happened at a home on Michigan Drive in Palm Desert. The Sheriff's Department said an officer responded to a burglary call and saw Tanuvasa running away, after that a struggle began and the officer shot him.
Two other men suspected in the burglary got away.

The officer is on paid-administrative leave.