SACRAMENTO, Calif. --
A gang unit detective who was married just a few months ago was killed Wednesday afternoon in south Sacramento, Sheriff John McGinness said.
Vu Nguyen was doing a routine check at about 2 p.m. near the 6100 block of 37th Street, not far from the Campbell's Soup plant, police said.
When a man at a house occupied by known gang members saw Nguyen, he ran and jumped over a fence. Nguyen followed him over the fence, and his partner said he heard a gunshot.
The partner said he found Nguyen in the back yard of a home, with a gunshot wound to the neck.
According to McGinnis, a weapon was recovered in the area, but it's not necessarily the weapon that was used in the shooting.
The sheriff said Nguyen was a 7-year veteran of the force, with three years on the gang unit. He was married in April.
More than 100 officers searched the area near the shooting for the gunman, who remained at large Wednesday night.
Police are looking for a dark-complected Asian man, possibly in his early 20s, with a thin build and wearing a puffy green camouflage jacket.
The gang unit detectives said they didn't know the man, who may be holed up in a house in the area.
Police set up a perimeter over an area about 1½ miles long by a half-mile wide.
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard was closed from Fruitridge Road to 47th Avenue, and Franklin Boulevard is closed from St. Patrick Elementary School to 47th Avenue.
Three nearby schools remain on lockdown -- Pacific Elementary School, Fern Bacon Middle School and St. Patrick Elementary School. Children who normally walk home had to be picked up.
Flags at county facilities will be flown at half staff Thursday in honor of the deputy, County Executive Terry Schutten said.
Other deputies who died in the line of duty in recent years:
Kevin Blount -- July 13, 2005; died in a helicopter crash during routine patrol near Lake Natoma.
Joseph Kievernagel -- July 13, 2005; died in a helicopter crash during routine patrol near Lake Natoma.
Jeffrey Mitchell -- Oct. 27, 2006; shot to death during a traffic stop by an unknown suspect.
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