Two police officers shot and killed were remembered by family, colleagues and the El Monte community, when a sea of people gathered for a vigil Saturday night.
Olga Garcia, the mother of slain El Monte Police Officer Joseph Anthony Santana, 31, was speaking through tears at a news conference Friday outside LAPD police headquarters.
The man who shot and killed two El Monte police officers died at the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to the Los Angeles County coroner.
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Justin William Flores, 35, shot dead Corporal Michael Paredes, 42, and Officer Joseph Santana, 31, in a motel shootout while the police officers were investigating a reported stabbing in LA.