Border Patrol agents stopped the officer for questioning on Saturday night and later saw the person hiding. The officer was taken into custody by California U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.

The officer was assigned to Los Angeles Police Department's Hollywood Division. His name was not released.

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Rookie LAPD officer on the run after arrest warrant issued in deadly nightclub shooting: police 

BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Monday, March 16, 2015, 9:24 AM Updated: Monday, March 16, 2015, 9:53 PM 

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A rookie Los Angeles cop is on the run after police in nearby Pomona issued an arrest warrant in the early Friday shooting death at a local nightclub.

Cops on Sunday found the abandoned silver Volkswagen Jetta belonging to 27-year-old Henry Solis, a probationary officer with the LAPD, just blocks from the Vive Tequila Lounge and Nightclub in Pomona, a city about 30 miles east of Los Angeles.

Officers have been searching for Solis since Friday, when 23-year-old Salome Rodriguez Jr. was shot dead at Third and Main Sts. around 3:30 a.m. The two reportedly got into an altercation at the club before the deadly shooting outside the building.

A mortally wounded Rodriguez ran bleeding from the scene for about a block before collapsing in a parking lot, according to the Los Angeles Times.

He’d been shot five times—twice in the abdomen, twice in the left leg and once in the lower neck—by a skilled shooter who “did a good job,” a source told the Times.

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Salome Rodriguez Jr., 23, was remembered fondly by bereft friends and family.

“The shots were on point,” the source told the paper.

Solis was off-duty at the time of the shooting but “has failed to report to work since the murder took place,” Pomona police said.

The cop went from person of interest to murder suspect by Monday afternoon when Pomona police issued a warrant for his arrest.

"Suspect Solis is a police officer and should be considered armed and dangerous. The suspect knows he is wanted, and that police are actively searching for him,” the department said.

POMONA POLICE DEPARTMENT

Henry Solis, 27, a rookie Los Angeles police officer, is being sought in connection with a fatal shooting near a bar in Pomona Friday.

Police said Solis may be traveling in a 1992 Ford pickup — brown or tan in color — with California plates.

Solis was assigned in December to the Devonshire Division in the San Fernando Valley and had yet to complete his probationary period as an officer. He’d had “no disciplinary issues” since joining the force, an officer told the Times.

“He was a good officer, as far as we know,” Lt. Ronald McDonald at the Pomona Police Department told the Times. “Whatever happened, happened.”

The victim’s grieving mom said her son was a warehouse worker out Thursday night with co-workers. Rodriguez, of Ontario, Calif., was also a missionary at the St. Catholic Church in L.A., the bereft woman said.

The family has raised more than $8,000 on a GoFundMe site to help pay funeral costs.

"My son had a good heart. I'd like to say the heart of gold. When he was little, he'd close his eyes and pray to God and that's what makes me strong. He knew God alive and he's with God now," Lidia Rodriguez told KABC-TV.

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With Jason Molinet

sgoldstein@nydailynews.com