Security Guard Shot to Death on Patrol
A security guard who was a potential witness to a drive-by killing last week died early Tuesday after he was shot by two gunmen while patrolling a South Los Angeles taco stand, said police, who added that the incidents may be related.
Julio Alvarenga, 35, was shot at about 10 p.m. Monday while patrolling the stand in the 4800 block of South Central Avenue. The gunmen fired three shots from a handgun at close range, hitting him twice in the lower back and side and grazing his chest, police said. Alvarenga later died at Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center.
A spokesman for Gold Security Patrol said Alvarenga had been assigned to the stand a few months earlier. He had been subpoenaed as a potential witness in the murder of Salvador Salazar, 19, who was killed in a drive-by shooting Sept. 14 in South Los Angeles.
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