LOCAL : L.A. Officer Kills Santa Ana Man
One of two off-duty Los Angeles police officers working as security guards at a nightclub fatally shot an armed Santa Ana man early today during a fight at the Orange Fair Mall in Fullerton, police said.
At least five people--one with a baseball bat--were involved in the fight at 2 a.m. when 22-year-old Eric Parga pulled out a semiautomatic handgun in the parking lot of Carnivale Disco, 1401 S. Lemon St., said Capt. Lee DeVore of the Fullerton Police Department.
LAPD Officer Randy Garcia, 34, who was working with another off-duty officer, David Navarro, 32, saw Parga’s gun and shot him with one round, said Sgt. Elmer Pellegrino of the Los Angeles department’s officer-involved shooting team.
Parga was taken to Anaheim Memorial Hospital where he died a short time later.
Garcia, who is assigned to the Metropolitan Division, is a 10-year veteran with the department. Navarro, an officer for 4 1/2 years, is assigned to the Newton Division.
The Orange County district attorney’s officer-involved shooting team will investigate the case with the Fullerton Police Department, DeVore said.
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