Two San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies who were stationed at the Morongo Basin station at the time of the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino were among 12 first responders who were honored with a Medal of Valor at the White House Tuesday. Bruce Southworth and Chad Johnson, now a homicide detective and district attorney investigator respectively, were working in the Morongo Basin at the time of the attack and were sent to assist law enforcement officers during the shooting. During the chaos, Southworth and Johnson helped a law enforcement officer who had been pinned down by the shooting get out of the line of fire. For their actions, they were presented with the Medal of Valor by President Trump, along with other local first responders: Sheriff’s Corporal Rafael Ixco, Deputy Shaun Wallen, San Bernardino Police Detective Brian Olvera, and Redlands Police Officer Nicholas Koahou. Fourteen people were killed and 22 others injured during a county department Christmas party in December 2015 when a husband and wife went on a deadly shooting rampage in San Bernardino.
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