Thomas Kotecki

How they died

Deadly force

Neighbors called 911 about after hearing gunfire at the Las Alegres patio home complex. Police found a man and a woman wounded in a street toward the back of the property and used squad cars as shields to retrieve them, police said. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene and the man was pronounced dead at a hospital. Back at the complex, a SWAT team waited outside as a man who police said was agitated and armed walked in and out of a unit as he spoke to officers. They shot and killed him.

Why we remember them

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