A Covina man accused of shooting a deputy stopped at a red light in West Covina last year was recorded admitting to the shooting while in a San Diego holding cell, a detective said on Wednesday in court.

After the shooting, Raymundo Duran, now 48, turned up later that day at the San Onofre Inspection Facility in northern San Diego County, just south of the Orange County border, where California Highway Patrol officers arrested him on suspicion of DUI and gun-related charges after they found a gun in his Toyota Camry, authorities said.

Duran ended up in a holding cell with two others.

“He said he shot a police officer earlier,” sheriff’s Detective Valerie Franco testified Wednesday at Duran’s preliminary hearing in West Covina Superior Court. “It was in West Covina. He recalled seeing after he shot him, he fell. He said he was on a motorcycle.”

Deputy Samuel Aispuro’s bulletproof vest saved him, Sheriff Robert Luna has said.

Sheriff’s Detective Curtis Brown, who interviewed Aispuro at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, testified that the deputy had bruising and abrasion to his upper back.

On April 22, 2024, Aispuro, in uniform and riding a sheriff’s motorcycle, was heading to the Fairplex in Pomona for training.

He went to a 76 station on Barranca Avenue, got gas, then continued on his way. He stopped on southbound Barranca, near East Garvey Avenue North in West Covina, for a red light.

He heard a loud pop and thought it was a tire, Brown said. Then Aispuro felt a sharp pain and fell from the motorcycle.“A citizen approached him and said, ‘That guy shot you,’ “ Brown said, adding the deputy activated his camera and started using his radio.

Aispuro didn’t see who shot him but did see a car entering the nearby freeway, Brown said.

It is unknown why the deputy was shot.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office last year charged Duran with attempted murder of a peace officer, assault with a firearm upon a peace officer, and possession of a firearm by a felon with a prior conviction.

In 2001, Duran fatally stabbed his boss at a Jiffy Lube in Azusa, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He received an additional year for using a dangerous weapon.

After the preliminary hearing, Judge Ramiro P. Cisneros denied the defense’s motion to dismiss the case and ruled there was enough evidence for the case to go forward to trial.

Duran was being held without the possibility of bail at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic.