Local News in Brief : Slain Universal Guard Buried in East L.A.

A Universal Studios security guard who was fatally shot last week along with another security guard was buried Wednesday in East Los Angeles.

Services for Armando Enrique Torres, 18, were held at San Alfonso Church near Monterey Park, and burial was at nearby Resurrection Cemetery. About 300 people, including family members and security guards with whom Torres worked, attended the services.

Torres was one of two Burns International Security guards gunned down Dec. 1 at the main gate of the studios in Universal City. Torres died a day later. The other guard, Jeren Beeks, 27, of La Crescenta was killed instantly in the attack.

Torres was a new employee and was being trained by Beeks at the main guardhouse when the shootings occurred.

Nathan N. Trupp, 42, a former mental patient who recently had been living in Albuquerque, N.M., has been charged with two counts of murder in the Universal incident. Authorities said Trupp is also suspected in the killings of three people who worked in an Albuquerque bagel shop 2 days before the slayings at Universal.

Trupp was obsessed with Nazism and killed all five victims because he believed they were Nazis, authorities said.