LOS ANGELES : 3 Face Capital Murder Charges in Officer’s Death
Capital murder charges were filed Tuesday against three men arrested in the shooting death of a Maywood police officer during a robbery at a neighborhood market.
Suspected triggerman Carlos Antonio Juarez, 22, and alleged accomplices Jose Contreras, 20, and Hector Reyna, 21, each were charged with one count of murder in the May 29 killing of Maywood Police Officer John A. Hoglund.
Any one of three special-circumstance allegations attached to the murder count could bring the death penalty, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Bob Schirn.
The men also are charged with three counts of second-degree robbery of the convenience store workers. They are scheduled to be arraigned today in Huntington Park Municipal Court.
Hoglund, 46, was fatally wounded during a robbery at George’s Market, 4045 52nd St.
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