Hundreds gathered Saturday evening to remember and honor Cpl. Michael Paredes and Officer Joseph Santana, the El Monte police officers killed in a shootout Tuesday.
It was a long journey. He worked in the city’s maintenance department for six years, then became a sheriff’s deputy in San Bernardino County.He had been on the job less than a year when he was killed, along with a fellow officer, Cpl. Michael Paredes, in a shootout at a motel on Tuesday.
“Even down to the last moments of their lives, Mike and Joseph proved they were men of character,” Ben Lowry, acting El Monte police chief, said at the vigil. “They were the best of us. They were the greatest of us. I’m a better man having known each of them.” “Michael had a huge heart, big hugs for everyone and that perfect smile that he was known for,” Valencia said. “And he had a spirit to match it.”
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